Ch. 15 - Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

Who of the following did not run for the presidency in 1860?

William Seward

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

exclusion of slavery from the territories

The Crittenden Compromise

promised to protect slavery in all territories south of 36° 30'

The president of the Confederacy was

Jefferson Davis

Which of the following slave states did not secede from the United States?

Kentucky

Which was not a Northern military advantage over the South?

better commanding officers in the field

The Union war effort was financed primarily by

war bonds

Which was not a Northern military advantage over the South?

better commanding officers in the field

The Trent Affair

almost ruptured British-American relations

The first significant battle of the Civil War took place at

Bull Run

One of the major problems faced by Union armies during the campaigns of 1862 was

McClellan's reluctance to fight

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

with his stirring victories at Forts Donelson and Henry in Tennessee

The appointment of ____ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

All of the following were northern advantages except

defensive war as a strategy

Which of the following best describes both militaries?

They were mostly volunteers early on

On the issue of secession, most Northerners agreed that

secession was unconstitutional, treasonable, and impossible

Robert E. Lee joined the Confederacy because he

loved his home state of Virginia and could not fight against it

At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy benefited from its

rural traditions of hunting and riding that prepared its population for military activities

The Anaconda Plan was

General Winfield Scott's strategy for encircling and squeezing the South into submission

The first Battle of Bull Run is most significant because

it was a wake-up call to the north that this war would be long and drawn out.

____ of the white population in the border states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri) favored the Union

two-thirds

The total Confederate population of 9 million included ____ slaves

3.7 million

William L. Yancey and Edmund Ruffin

were prominent secessionists who founded the League of United Southerners

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

Southern Rights Democratic

Before 1860 southerners had

all of these choices

Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he feared that it would

lead to southern filibustering to take Cuba and other southern lands

The Confederate economy suffered from

extremely high rates of inflation

Robert E. Lee joined the Confederacy because he