12285603565 | European powers favored a civil war in the United States because | war would weaken the United States' power in the Western Hemisphere | 0 | |
12285612503 | Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that | Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort | 1 | |
12285692974 | Many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until | the South attacked Fort Sumter | 2 | |
12285696983 | The Border States offered all of the following EXCEPT | shipbuilding facilities | 3 | |
12285698442 | Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery | revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies | 4 | |
12285705084 | In return for support from the Plains Indians during the Civil War, the Union | waged war on them and herded them onto reservations | 5 | |
12285711186 | To achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to | fight the invading Union army to a draw | 6 | |
12285734071 | As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of | more talented military leaders | 7 | |
12285738976 | All of the following were similar characteristics that both Union and Confederate soldiers shared EXCEPT | poor unskilled workers were well represented among both armies | 8 | |
12285744285 | Johnny Reb tended to be all of the following EXCEPT | detached personally from the war | 9 | |
12285749241 | Billy Yank tended to be all of the following EXCEPT | religious | 10 | |
12285751773 | The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its | economy | 11 | |
12285757496 | The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its | economy | 12 | |
12285759163 | Much of the hunger experienced by Confederate soldiers in the Civil War was due to | the South's rickety transportation system | 13 | |
12285765152 | Northern soldiers eventually became known for their | discipline and determination | 14 | |
12285768964 | to find effective high-level commanders, the union | used trial and error | 15 | |
12285772718 | A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was | intervention from Britain and France | 16 | |
12332599821 | One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that | they feared losing Northern grain shipments | 17 | |
12332624848 | The South believed that the British would come to its aid because | Britain was dependent on the Southern colonies | 18 | |
12332644890 | During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by | the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ships | 19 | |
12332655269 | Confederate commerce-raiders such as the Alabama | proved effective against Union shipping | 20 | |
12332663249 | The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the | Alabama | 21 | |
12332672211 | Napolean III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of | the Monroe-Doctrine | 22 | |
12332682393 | France abandoned its attempt to control Mexico | when the United States threatened to force France to leave. | 23 | |
12332684809 | During the Cvil War, | relations between the Union and Canada were at times very poor | 24 | |
12332692446 | The Southern cause was weakened by | the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed. | 25 | |
12332704896 | As leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis | defied rather than led public opinion | 26 | |
12332719450 | The problems that Abraham Lincoln experienced as president were less prostrating than those experienced by Jefferson Davis partly because the North | had a long-established and fully recognized government | 27 | |
12332736084 | As president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis did not exercise the arbitrary power wielded by Abraham Lincoln because | of the South's emphasis on states' rights | 28 | |
12332747738 | To fill the army's demand for troops, the North relied mainly on | volunteers | 29 | |
12332752791 | The Union's establishment of the National Banking System | was the first significant step toward a unified baking network since 1836 | 30 |
AP US History: Chapter 20 Flashcards
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