Civil War Exam Review

Slaves were essential to the plantation economy because cash crops (cotton) were labor intensive and required—

• skilled labor with experience of technology

• fewer workers due to industrialization

• sharing of work to increase profits

• many people to grow and pick the crop

What did Lincoln’s election lead to?

• Westward Expansion of the United States

• fulfillment of Manifest Destiny

• United States annexation of Texas

• secession of Southern states

Southern states objected to high tariffs because these tariffs led to —

• an increase in the price of manufactured goods

• limitations on the availability of western lands

• profitability of mining operations

• a decrease in the production of tobacco

What is the significance of 1861?

• Texans fought against the dictator Santa Anna and won independence from Mexico

• The Joint Resolution for annexation was approved and Texas became a state in the United States.

• The United States won the Mexican War and acquired territory known as the Mexican Cession.

• Southern states voted to secede from the Union and the Civil War began.

Economic differences between the North and South lead directly to what?

• sectionalism

• federalism

• militarism

• patriotism

One fear among Southerners after the election of 1860 was that —

• Southerners would move to the North

• slavery would spread west

• Congress would try to abolish slavery

• farmers would lose their land

One reason for the involvement of Texas in the Civil War was that many Texans believed —

• states had the right not to follow laws passed by Congress/the Federal Government with which they disagreed

• industrial areas in Texas could produce more products than northern factories

• higher tariffs would benefit the agricultural economy of southern plantations

• that the capital was located too far from the majority of citizens in the south

One major effect of the Civil War on industries was that —

• factories were shut down and destroyed

• more free African-Americans were employed

• additional weapons and ammunition were produced

• products and resources were shipped to the West

More soldiers participated in which war than any other war in American history?

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• Mexican American War

• Civil War

The Union Navy used its ships to blockade Texas ports because —

• Texas had a powerful navy that defeated Union troops

• Texas was an important link in the Confederate chain of supplies

• Texas sent spies to the Gulf Coast in order to gain intelligence

• Texas sent soldiers by ship to fight against the Union