Exam 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

The president of the Confederacy was

Despite the fact that the U.S.Navy placed hundreds of warships on blockade duty,in 1861 ____ out of every 10 ships headed to Confederate ports slipped through the blockade.

The Confederacy reaped great profits from the sale of the 1861 cotton crop.

The Crittenden Compromise essentially repudiated the Republican platform of 1860.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Crittenden Compromise

____________________ was the highest-ranking general on either side to be killed during the Civil War.

John C.Breckinridge ran for president in 1860 under the banner of the ____ Party.

The slave states that sided with the Union in the Civil War were called the ____________________.

Explore the early campaigns and strategies of 1861 and 1862.What were the goals of both the Union and the Confederacy? Could the war have ended at this early point?

Examine the secession crisis and the various attempts at compromise to avert the dissolution of the Union.Do you believe that secession could have been avoided in 1860? Why or why not?

Describe the first battle of the ironclads and assess its significance.

The South's voluntary embargo of cotton exports suggested to British and French diplomats that the Union blockade was at least partly effective.

On April 19,1861 Lincoln called for a(n)____________________.

Many of the civilized Native Americans in Indian Territory (Oklahoma)

One of the most feared Southern raiding ships was the

John Bell won all of the following states in the election of 1860 except

European monarchists and conservatives were distressed at the idea of Southern secession leading to the breakup of the United States.

Compare Northern and Southern advantages and disadvantages at the beginning of the Civil War.

IDENTIFICATIONS -border states

The only state that Stephen Douglas carried in 1860 was ____________________.