APUSH Final Exam (Chapter 20 & 21)

Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts by

All of these choices are correct.

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

Britain was dependent on Southern cotton

The political group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the

Copperheads

A Confederate victory at Antietam in September 1862 probably would have won the Confederacy independence because

France and Britain were on the verge of recognizing the Confederate government and providing it with critically needed military assistance

All of the following were border slave states that remained loyal to the Union except

Tennessee

The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because

Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed

As a theorist of warfare, General William T. Sherman was

a pioneer of the strategy of total warfare aimed at destroying civilian morale

One consequence of General William T. Sherman's style of warfare was

a shorter war that saved lives

During the Civil War,

blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued

Following a historic battle in March 1862 with a tiny Union ironclad warship, the Monitor, the Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack, was

destroyed by Confederate soldiers to keep it out of the hands of Union troops

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

disease

The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its

economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network

To 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 productivity

President Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run (Manassas Junction) would

lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond

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

naval intervention from Britain and France

Confederate commerce-raiders such as the Alabama

proved effective against Union shipping

Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the

ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution

In Lincoln's attempts 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

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 of the following strategic advantages except

shipbuilding facilities

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 a British ship by a Union warship in 1861

As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign

the Union turned to a strategy of total war

One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was

the Union's discovery of General Robert E. Lee's battle plans

The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because

the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war

The Civil War resulted in all of the following except

the end of protective tariffs and isolationism

The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from

the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia) warship, which destroyed two wooden ships of the Union navy off the Chesapeake Bay and threatened to destroy many more wooden Union warships.

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

the prospect of free land under the Homestead Act

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.

In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the pro-war Democrats and founded the ____ party.

union

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

used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union soldiers in a local civil war in Missouri.

To find effective high-level commanders, the Union

used trial and error

The Civil War was a women's war in all of the following ways except

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