Chapter 20 APUSH

One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that:

they feared losing Northern grain shipments.

Most working people in Britain sided with the North because:

they had been moved by Uncle Tom's Cabin to want the end of slavery.

In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln:

used legally dubious methods.

The find effective high-level commanders, the Union:

used trial and error.

To fill the army's demand for troops, prior to 1863, the North relied mainly on:

volunteers.

In return for support from the Plains Indians during the Civil War, the Union:

waged war on them and herded them onto reservations.

During the Civil War, diplomacy for the Union and the Confederacy:

was critical for both.

The Union's establishment of the National Banking System:

was the first significant step forward a unified banking network since 1836.

France abandoned its attempt to control Mexico:

when the United States threatened to force France to leave.

The Civil War was a women's war in all the following way's except:

women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandoned by men.

The leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis:

defied rather than was led by public opinion.

Johnny Reb tended to be all of the following except:

detached personally from the war.

Northern soldiers eventually became known for their:

discipline and determination.

Of all the hardships faced by soldiers during the Civil War, the greatest was:

disease.

The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its:

economy.

The greatest weakness of the South during the civil war was its:

economy.

The achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to:

fight the invading Union army to a draw.

As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy:

greatly expanded its industrial and technological and technological productivity.

The problems that Abraham Lincoln experienced as president were less prostrating than those experienced by Jefferson Davis partly because the North:

had a long-established and fully recognized government.

Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that:

he was not fighting to free the blacks.

A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was:

intervention from Britain and France.

All of the following are true statements about the federal conscription (draft) law except:

it was passed despite a healthy rate of volunteers.

As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of:

more talented military leaders.

As president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis did not exercise the arbitrary power wielded by Abraham Lincoln because:

of the South's emphasis on states' rights.

All of the following are similar characteristics that both Union and Confederate soldiers shared except:

poor unskilled workers were well represented among both armies.

Confederate commerce-raiders such as the Alabama:

proved effective against Union shipping.

In Lincoln's attempt to preserve the Union, he did all of the following questionable actions as president except:

refused to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war.

During the Civil War:

relations between the Union and Canada were at times very poor.

Billy Yank tended to be all of the following except:

religious.

Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery:

revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.

The Border States offered all the following advantages except:

shipbuilding facilities.

During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma:

supported the confederacy.

Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of:

the Monroe Doctrine.

In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until:

the South attacked Fort Sumter.

Much of the hunger experienced by Confederate soldiers in the Civil War was due to:

the South's rickety transportation system.

During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by:

the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from British ships.

The Southern cause was weakened by:

the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed.

The Cherokees decision on whether to side with the North or the South during the war was based on:

the fact that the tribe also owned slaves.

Possessing ___% of the national wealth in 1860, the South claimed only ___% in 1870.

30, 12

Despite the war, 300,000 people migrated to the West, lured mainly by:

the prospect of free land under the Homestead Act.

The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the:

Alabama.

The South believed that the British would come to its aid because:

Britain was dependent on Southern cotton

America's minister to Britain, during the Civil War, under President Lincoln was:

Charles Francis Adams.

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that:

Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.

President Lincoln's decision on what to do about the situation at Fort Sumter in the first weeks of his administration can best be characterized as:

a middle of the road solution.