8-26-2020

How did the Confederates believe they would end up winning the Civil War?

• The Confederates thought the North would run out of money
• The Confederates thought the North would get tired and give up. 
• The Confederates didn't think they would win.
• The Confederates thought Britain would help them.

Which item would best complete the list?

• Inexperienced military leaders
• Lack of Industries
• Larger Population
• Lack of agricultural land

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The Battle of Vicksburg was important in the Civil War because it --

• allowed the Confederate army to seize Washington D.C.
• broke the Union blockade along the Gulf of Mexico
• enabled the Confederate army to seek French assistance
• gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg significant to the Civil War?

• It led to the Emancipation Proclamation
• It brought an end to the Civil War
• It resulted in the passing of the 15th Amendment
• It was a turning point because General Lee was forced to fight a defensive war

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." -- Abraham Lincoln 1858
According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that

• slavery was immoral and should be abolished immediately
• sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union
• the Souther states should be allowed to secede
• to save the nation, the North should compromise with the South on slavery

Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?

• The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
• The election of President Abraham LIncoln
• The enactment of the Missouri Compromise
• The raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry by John Brown

Which event belongs in the blank box?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed
• Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
• Jefferson Davis is named President of the Confederacy
• John Brown is captured at Harpers Ferry

What is the main effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

• It reduced global demand for cotton and le US farmers to grow other crops

• It made it possible to produce clothing by machine and led to the building of textile factories throughout the southern US

• It allowed people to grow cotton in the western territories

• It allowed cotton to be processed more quickly and profitably and led to the expansion of slavery in the southern US

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?

• Yes

• No

This battle was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg
• Antietam 
• Fort Sumter
• Vicksburg