Civil War in Louisiana

Why was New Orleans important in the Civil War?

• the people could persuaded to support Union

• Mississippi River and the Port

• Large cotton plantations.

• easily overtaken by Union forces

Why was Louisiana an important Civil War battle ground?

• New Orleans was a major manufacturing center

• New Orleans was one of the largest ports in the United States

• Major source of agricultural goods

• contained storehouses of military goods for Confederacy

Why did most battles take place along the Mississippi River in Louisiana?

• to gain control of the Gulf of Mexico

• Union wanted to divide the Confederacy into two parts

• free slaves

• to force the Confederacy to flee to the west

How was the war viewed by most people of the south?

• wanted to keep slavery, but also be part of the U.S.

• secession was worse than remaining with the Union

• feared slavery would spread over the entire United States.

• They believed that slavery was the only way

What was the purpose of using the blockade?

• to weaken Louisiana's military and economy

• force Louisiana to sell cotton to North

• encourage trade between Mexico and Texas

• to force people from Louisiana to buy food and supplies from the North.

Answer explanation

But blocking imports and exports into the south...it would keep them from getting the necessary supplies and materials. They would also would be limited on what they could sell.

Abraham Lincoln's name was left off the Louisiana ballot in 1860 because of his stance on slavery.

• True

• False

The principal of ________________________ emphasizes the rights of individual state's over the federal government.

• federalsim

• state's rights

• federal rights

• emancipation

Purpose of Missouri Compromise:

• settle arguments of slavery

• settle trade disputes

• design a way to accept states into the United States

• to include rights for freedmen

Purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

• capture the City of Baton Rouge and give it to the Union

• to keep supplies from entering the South

• gain control of the Mississippi River and win the war

• to separate the north from the south

The name called to people who were against slavery

• fugitives

• confiscation

• abolitionists

• slave owners