Who Was Abraham Lincoln? Ch 7 & 8

As the war neared the end of its second year, more than ___ ________ battles had been fought.

(a)  

In the North, it became easier as the war went on to find men who were willing to join the army.

• True

• False

The government was running out of money to pay for the war.

• True

• False

Lincoln had avoided dealing with (a)   directly, but realized he had to face the issue.

(a)   supported the war because they thought it would end slavery.

Lincoln did not believe that the president had the power to ______ _______.

(a)  

Only the citizens of the country could change the ______ ______ ____________.

(a)  

A country at war was allowed to seize property that the enemy was using to fight the war and southern states were using slave labro to help in their war efforts, so Lincoln decided this was a good legal reason to take slaves away from their owners.

• True

• False

(a)   began to pass laws that chipped away at slavery.

Slaves who escaped from rebel owners or were captured by the Union army would not be returned to their owners.

• True

• False