USH - Civil War Review

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the South had to surrender for all of the following except?

President Lincoln was assassinated

what was the first state secede from the U.S.?

South Carolina

which of the following abolished slavery in the North?

Thirteenth Amendment

what was Grant's impact on the Civil War?

changed the Northern war strategy

why didn't Lincoln respond with force to Confederate threat to attack Ft Sumter?

didn't want to anger Republicans & slave states still in Union

while serving in Union army, African Americans faced all of the following except:

excessively high income taxes

one effect of Emancipation Proclamation was that it__.

gave a moral purpose to the war

why is battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

made South give up idea of invading the North

the North relied on all of the following sources of troops except for:

mercenaries

in which area did South have an advantage over the North in Civil War?

military leadership

what was Clara Barton's role in Civil War?

nurse on battlefield

the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as:

secession

which view best summarizes Lincoln's position on slavery in 1858?

should not spread because it is morally & politically wrong

the topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was:

slavery in the territories

Lincoln suspended __ to deal with dissent in the Union states

the writ of habeas corpus

when the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

to restore the Union

Sherman's March shows the use of which of the following war strategies?

total war

women helped out during the war in all of the following ways except?

voting for new leaders

what was the impact of new technology on the Civil War?

war became increasingly deadly


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