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