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-Guarantee passing score -49 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: why did the Union want to control the Mississippi river and its tributaries?
Answer:
to prevent supplies from reaching the western confederacy
Question 2: to raise money for the war, what did the north print?
Answer:
greenbacks
Question 3: ____confederates soldiers
Answer:
rebels
Question 4: ____People killed or wounded
Answer:
casualties
Question 5: what was the goal of the anaconda plan?
Answer:
Blockade southern ports and control the Mississippi Question 6: " no term except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." - at the capture of fort Donelson, February 16, 1862 this Quotation provided a nickname for which northern hero?
Answer:
Ulysses S. grant
Question 7: stonewall jackson was wounded by one of his own men
Answer:
true
Question 8: what was one of the main advantages of the south?
Answer:
Excellent military leaders
Question 9: ___ refusal to give in
Answer:
resistance Question 10: what difficulties will the U.S. government when it tries to rebuild the south after war?
Answer:
All of the above
Question 11: what was the union goal in the west?
Answer:
to control the Mississippi river Question 12: which type of law required confederate men between certain ages to serve in the army for 3 years?
Answer:
Draft
Question 13: how did the north and the south pay for the war?
Answer:
Borrowing money, raising taxes, printing money Question 14: which of the following is one advantage the union had over the south?
Answer:
they had a greater number of troops
Question 15: the city of Atlanta was burned
Answer:
as a part of Sherman total war strategy
Question 16: for the north, the primary goal was to preserve the union
Answer:
True
Question 17: for the south, the primary aim of the war was to form a new nation
Answer:
false, it was to preserve slavery Question 18: as a result pf the battle of ______, Britain and France decided not to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy.
Answer:
Gettysburg
Question 19: where was the first major battle of the civil war?
Answer:
Bull run
Question 20: which of these cities was the capital of the confederacy?
Answer:
Richmond, Virginia
Question 21: President Lincoln's address at which battlefield honored soldiers and stated his vision for the country?
Answer:
Gettysburg Question 22: the basic strategy of the confederacy was to conduct a defensive war.
Answer:
true
Question 23: during the war, the economy of the confederacy was ?
Answer:
Severely strained by the union blockade and the destruction of southern land and property
Question 24: gaining control of the Mississippi river enabled the union to?
Answer:
split the confederacy into smaller parts Question 25: Lincoln issued the _______ which freed slaves in confederate territory.
Answer:
Emancipation Proclamation Question 26: by them end of the war, African American volunteers made up nearly which percentage of the union army?
Answer:
10 percent
Question 27: ____ in a protected position
Answer:
entrenched
Question 28: why were the poor people in america angered by the draft policy?
Answer:
Wealthy individuals had opportunities to buy their way out of fighting