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CH.21Questions
1.What dilemma did Lincoln face with deciding how to deal with Fort Sumter? P.445
2. Why did South Carolina open five on Fort Sumter? P.445
3. How did the attack on Fort Sumter change Northern attitudes towards Civil War)? P.445-446
4.What four States seceded after the attack on Fort Sumter? P.446
5. How did President Lincoln seek to stop secession in key Border States? P.447
6. Why was it so important that Lincoln did not declare the Civil War to be about ending
slavery? P.447
7.Why could it be said that the civil war was a “BrothersWar”? P.448
8. What advantages did the south have going into the war? P.448
9. What weakness crippled the south? P.448-449
10. What advantage did the north have going into the war? P.449
11.What difficulties did president Lincoln have with the union’s military leaders? P.449
12.Why did European Aristocracy tend to favor the south? P.451
13.Why did England and France not intervene on behalf of the South? P.451
14.How did the Cotton supply of the South affect Great Britain during the war? P.451
15.How did the North help these economic woes in Great Britain during the war? P.451-452
16.How did Britain contribute to the Confederate Navy? P.452
17.Why did Great Britain decide not to deliver the Laird Rams (ships) to the Confereracy? P453
18.How did France respond to the civil war in America? P.453
19.What problems did the confederacy face in drafting their own constitution? P.454
20.What Constitutional Liberties did President Lincoln take during the Civil War? P.455
21.What problems did the South have with creating wartime unity? P.454-455
22.How did Congress respond to a shortage of volunteer soldiers? How was this unfair? P.455
23.What was the reaction in New York? P.455
24.What difficulties did the South have with a military draft? P.456
25.What methods did the union Government use to raise money during the war? P.457
26.What financial difficulties did the South have during the war? P.457&459
27.What social class financially benefited the from the civil war? P.458
28.How did women contribute to the war effort? P.458-
Ulysses S. Grant
Army of the Potomac
(The Union)
Robert E. Lee
Army of Northern Virginia
(The Confederacy)