USHC 3.2- Part 1 - NORTH/SOUTH Strategies

USHC 3.2- Part 1 - NORTH/SOUTH Strategies

Multiple Choice

What were Southerners afraid Lincoln would do once he was elected?

• free their slaves

• give women the right to vote

Multiple Choice

The Civil War began with

• shots fired on Fort Sumter

• Lincoln's election

Multiple Choice

Which northern strategy was meant to disrupt Southern trade with Great Britain

• blockade southern ports

• split the south along the Mississippi River

Multiple Choice

The South had more economic resources than the North

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When the Civil War began, Lincoln made it a war about

• ending slavery

• preserving the Union

Multiple Choice

The South trade rice with Great Britain in order to get supplies they lacked.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The majority of the battles of the Civil War were fought in the South

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Who was the president of the Confederate States?

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C. Calhoun

Multiple Choice

The South freed their slaves when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued

• True

• Flase

Multiple Choice

What is a border state?

• slave state that did not secede

• states along the Atlantic Ocean

Multiple Choice

The Emancipation Proclamation made it hard for what country to ally with the South because they were opposed to slavery?

• Britain

• France

• Canada

Multiple Choice

All slaves were FREE when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued

• True

• False

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Multiple Choice

When the Civil War began, what was President Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?

• to free the slaves

• to punish the South

• to restore the Union

• To gain the support of Britain and France

Multiple Choice

During the early years of the Civil War, on what task did the northern navy focus their concentration?

• Raiding southern merchant ships

• Freeing slaves in southern port towns

• Developing new weapons and ironclad vessels

• Securing a naval blockade around the Confederacy

Multiple Choice

What was one impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It made it possible for the Union Army to recruit African American soldiers

• It ended all slavery in the United States

• It caused the border states to secede from the Union

• It provided a clear plan to support the newly freed slaves

Multiple Choice

During the Civil War, how did the North benefit from having a greater number of factories, more miles of railroad tracks, and a higher population?

• The North was able to sell materials to foreign nations to earn money to provide better pay for soldiers.

• These advantages had a greater impact over the course of the war, as the South was worn down.

• These benefits helped offset the greater supply of manpower in the South.

• These differences allowed the North to wage a defensive war.

Multiple Choice

What is one reason that the Union strategy for defeating the South included a naval blockade of Southern ports?

• To deprive the South of fishing and whaling as a primary source of food

• To prevent Southern efforts to sell cotton in Europe in exchange for war supplies

• To stop Southern attempts to establish slave plantations in Cuba and Mexico

• To cut the South off from its supply lines in the countries of Latin America