H102 Midterm Review 3rd Quarter 2024

In both the North and the South, the draft was accepted with little protest.

• True

• False

Had the Union not taken Atlanta in September of 1864, Lincoln might have lost the presidency to McClellan.

• True

• False

The Civil War transformed the North from an agrarian to an industrial society.

• True

• False

The Confederate government was composed of the most radical Southern secessionists.

• True

• False

Despite many shortages, the South was at least able to grow enough food to meet its needs.

• True

• False

Lincoln's handling of the war effort faced constant scrutiny from the congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, which seriously interfered with his work.

• True

• False

Technological advances made little difference in the outcome of the Civil War, since both sides had access to them.

• True

• False

No European nation offered diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy.

• True

• False

After the Battle of Chattanooga, the Confederacy's only hope was to hold on and exhaust the Northern will to fight.

• True

• False

Abraham Lincoln:

• had been a Democrat before he became a Republican.

• believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican.

• believed the expansion of slavery would hurt the spread of free labor.

• tried to avoid the slavery issue in his debates with Douglas.

• believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist.