Civil War: early years

Based on the chart, what was the key advantage the Union had at the beginning of the Civil War?

• Larger population

• Large Farms

• Twenty-five percent of the nation’s wealth

• Twenty percent of the nation’s industry.

Based on the chart, what was the key advantage the Confederacy had at the beginning of the Civil War?

• Larger Population.

• Seventy-two percent of the nation’s railroad mileage.

• Fighting on own territory.

• Seventy-five percent of the nation’s wealth.

When the southern states left the Union, they created the

• United States of America

• Republic of America

• Confederate States of America

• Slaveholder States of America

Why were the Border states important to the United States??

Jefferson Davis was the president for which side?

• North
• South

The Anaconda Plan of the North had was to:

• Steal Southern supplies

• Block Southern ports

• Take control of the railroads

• Take control of the Hudson River

What was the purpose of the Union's naval blockade strategy?

• to keep slaves from escaping

• to cut-off Southern trade & ruin the Confederate economy

• to supply markets for Northern industries

• to capture the Mississippi & Missouri Rivers

Who had a war strategy that called for fighting a defensive war until the other side grew tired of fighting?

• Union

• Confederacy

Who had the advantage of fighting for its independence?

• Union

• Confederacy

Why did the Confederacy have to keep its ports open?

• to help slaves escape

• to recruit new soldiers from the North

• to export its cotton & import war supplies

• to import cotton from Egypt