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WorksheetsAmerican Pageant CH 20
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern States to leave the union until
John Brown’s on Harpers Ferry
The South attacked Fort Sumter
South Carolina seceded from the United States
Virginia and Tennessee joined the seceding states
Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort
Southern support for secession was weakened
Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops
Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army
The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its
Inferior military leadership
Slave population
Inefficient political system
Economy
Most working people in Britain sided with the North because
They relied on the northern economy for their own jobs
The north share their feelings about whether Britain should enter the war
They had developed a class consciousness and moral revulsion about the evils of slavery and hoped that the Civil War would eventually extinguish slavery in the south and western territories
France had sided with the south and they hated the French
During the Civil War, most of the five civilized Tribes in the Indian territory of present-day Oklahoma
Supported the confederacy
Supported the union
Remained neutral
Gave up their slaves
America’s minister to Britain, during the Civil War, under President Lincoln was
Charles Francis Adams
Jefferson Davis
Clara Barton
William H. Seward
All of the following were similar characteristics that both union and confederate soldiers shared except
Most troops were native born
Most soldiers had been farmers or farm laborers
Poor, immigrants from Europe were well represented in both armies
About half were under the age of 22
Napoleon III’s attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of
French neutrality
Spanish sovereignty
The Rush-Bagot agreement
The Monroe doctrine
The problems that President Abraham Lincoln experienced in conducting the Civil War were less harmful than those experienced by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, partly because of the union
Had a long established and fully recognized agreement
Held firm to states’ rights principles
Had fewer internal political divisions
Was united in the cause of abolitionism
After the conclusion of the Civil War, the U.S. Government rewarded the union support provided by most of the Plain Indians by
Giving them federal land in California
Increasing their federal payments
Making them scouts for the U.S. Army
Waging war on most of the Plain Indians and coercively herding them onto reservations
In order to persuade the border states to remain in the union, President Lincoln
Relied solely on moral appeal
Used only totally legal methods
Never had to use troops
Using legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of union soldiers in a local Civil War in Missouri
“Johnny Reb” tended to be all of the following except
Detached personally from the war
Bred to fight
Emotional
Religious
Defined effective high-level commanders, the Union
Took only top graduate of West Point
Drew on its reserve Officer training program
Relied on the advice of foreign experts
Used trial and error
Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that
He was not fighting to three black slaves
He wanted to see an end of slavery
Slaves in all of the confederate states were now legally emancipated
He believe black and whites are equal
Northern soldiers eventually became known for their
Discipline and determination
Cowardice in battle
Lack of proper training
High-pitched battle call
During the Civil War, practicing effective diplomacy for the union and the confederacy for the respective relations with Great Britain
Was important for the union but not for the confederacy
Was important for the confederacy and not for the union
Was completely irrelevant to the outcome of the Civil War
Was critical for both the union and confederacy
As a result of the Civil War, the northern economy
Greatly expanded its industrial and technological productivity
Became more dependent on International trade
It’s supposed asset for The south at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantages was
Effective military leadership
Naval intervention from Britain and France
It’s ability to fight on its own soil
The fighting skills of southern males
despite the war 300,000 people migrated to the west, lured mainly by
Prospect of free land under the Homestead act
The hope of freeing slavery
The Civil War was a woman’s war in all of the following ways except
Women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandon by men
Women were able to professionalize nursing
President Lincoln‘s decision on what to Do you about the situation at Fort Sumter in the first few weeks of his administration can be best characterized as
Ill thought out
A middle of the road solution
Lincolns declaration that the north sought to preserve the union with or without slavery
Revealed the influence of the border states on his policies
Caused some seceded states to rejoin the union
The south believed that Britain would come to its aid because
Britain still had slavery in its empire
Britain was dependent on Southern cotton
During the Civil War
The relations between the union and Canada were at times very poor
The union and Canada became very close allies
To achieve its independence, the confederacy had to
Invade the union
Fight the invading union Army to a draw
