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Which of the following was not an important advantage of ironclad ships? a. They could withstand cannon fire. b. They could splinter wooden ships. c. They could resist burning. d. They could travel much faster than other ships . True or false: During the war, the executive powers of the federal government were expanded Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address? a. "All persons held as slaves within any State . . . in rebellion against the United States, shall be . . . forever free." b. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." c. "You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, . . . determined people on earth." d. "We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn." True or False: During the war, the Confederacy faced a severe shortage of nurses that led to skyrocketing prices and riots in the streets. Why was David Farragut's victory in April 1862 so important? a. It protected the Union capital from a Confederate takeover. b. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North. c. It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River. d. It boosted morale throughout the South and prompted Lee to invade the North. At AndersonvilleConfederate troops shot to death more than 200 African-American prisoners as they pleaded for their lives. True False ____helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864. a. Confederate victories in the North b. A lack of political opponents c. Union victories in the South d. The Copperheads A Copperhead was a Northern Democrat who supported peace with the South. True False The riots that broke out among lower-class New York City workers in 1863 were in reaction to emancipation. True False Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also ___. a. the South's population of enslaved Africans b. Northern citizens sympathetic to the South c. Native Americans who were not loyal to the United States d. the civilian population of the South What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter? a. He did not want to anger Republicans and slave states still in the Union. b. He wanted the Union to fire the first shots in the war. c. He had decided to abandon Fort Sumter. d. He wished to treat the Confederacy as a legitimate nation. In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? a. military leadership b. food production c. industrial capacity d. civilian leadership Early in the war, the Confederacy tried to gain support from the nation of France. True False Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ___. a. New Orleans b. Vicksburg c. Gettysburg d. Baton Rouge
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b. True. b. False - food shortages,not nurse shortages caused skyrocketing prices and riots. Assuming you mean at New Orleans - c.. False. c. True. False,they were about conscription. d. a. a. True,but Britain even more so. b.
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