Exam 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

The main plank of the Republican Party's 1860 platform called for

The Union war effort was financed primarily by

The government measure that modernized the American monetary system was the ____________________.

The U.S. Secretary of State during the Civil War was ____________________.

During the Civil War, the Confederate forces that pushed into New Mexico were made up primarily of men from ____________________.

____________________ refused Southern requests to withdraw federal troops from Fort Sumter.

The Union Commander who prevailed at the Battle of Shiloh was ____________________.

All states with slaves seceded from the union between 1860 and 1861.

Lincoln's cabinet advised him not to withdraw the federal troops from Fort Sumter.

The first significant battle of the Civil War took place at

Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he feared that it would

The reputation of General Ulysses S. Grant was established in 1862

All of the following statements regarding Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 are true except he

The Republican platform of 1860 called for the abolition of slavery.

Not until the ____________________ of 1861 would the Union have a larger army than the Confederacy.

The Virginia Theater seemed to favor the ____________________.

Naval strategies formed an integral part of the early war effort. Describe the goals and strategies of the North and then discuss the Southern response.

To win the war, the Confederacy believed it just had to hold out long enough for the Union to see that the cost of war was too high.

The ____________________ was a series of five proposed constitutional amendments that would have protected slavery in the states and in the territories south of 36° 30'.

The delegates at the Southern secession conventions voted unanimously in favor of withdrawing from the Union.