SS Unit 8

How did the election of 1860 impact the nation?

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  It further increased sectional tensions 

  
  

• It ended slavery in the country

• It settled the argument over popular sovereignty

• It temporarily united the country 

Who, in the election of 1860, represented the Republican Party and wanted to stop the spread of slavery in new territories and states?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John Breckinridge

• Frederick Douglas

Which state was the first to secede?

• Virginia

• Mississippi

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

How did the issue of slavery impact Abraham Lincoln's political and military strategy during the early years of the Civil War?

• Lincoln tried to avoid military action in areas with large slave populations because he feared slaves would join the Confederate army.

• Lincoln allowed slavery to continue in border states like Maryland and Kentucky because he feared the states would secede and join the Confederacy.

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    Lincoln forced states that allowed slavery to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.

• Lincoln ignored the issue of slavery and focused on ending the war quickly.

What conclusion can be drawn about the North and South's ability to fight the Civil War?

• The Union could produce war materials but lacked the ability to transport them out of the states where they were manufactured

• The Union's economy was agrarian-based and suffered when trade with the Confederacy was cut off.

• The Confederacy had the necessary infrastructure to switch from farming to producing war materials.

• The Confederacy's economy relied on the exportation of cash crops, and they lacked the resources needed to fight the war over a long period of time.

In which area did the Union have an advantage over the Confederacy in the early years of the War?

• military leadership

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    political leadership

• familiarity with the terrain

• devotion to the cause

Which statement best characterizes events of the Civil War?

• Naval blockades of southern ports forced the South to trade with France.

• The Civil War began at Gettysburg when the South fired on the North.

• The outcome was ultimately determined by the economic resources of the North and South.

• The North's greatest advantage in the Civil War was their military leadership.

The Union blockaded Southern ports, making it difficult to ship things in and out of the South.

New international cotton markets were available to meet European demand.

The Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery a goal of the war.

What would be the best title for this list?

• Reasons the Union Fought an Offensive War

• Reasons the Confederacy Failed to Gain Alliances with Foreign Nations

• Reasons the Union Lost Its Alliances with Foreign Nations

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    Reasons the Confederacy Surrendered

During the Civil War, why was the Union strategy of "total war" effective in weakening the Confederacy?

• Southerners were unable to make money by shipping goods overseas.

• Southerners were dependent on many of the resources that were destroyed.

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    Southern states began fighting each other rather than the North.

• Southern states were cut off from each other by the Mississippi River.

What was the Union's Anaconda Plan's goal?

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    to blockade southern ports and divide the South at the Mississippi River

• to march soldiers from the Virginia Peninsula to Richmond

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    to destroy all the civil and economic resources of the South

• to incorporate former slaves as contraband of war