Question 1

What were the advantages and disadvantages for the North and for the South at the beginning of the Civil War? Why did each side believe it would win?

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At the beginning of the Civil War, both ...

Question 2

At the outset of the war,what did both northerners and southerners predict?

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A)   The war would be long and bloody.
B)   The outcome would be determined by whichever side could convince European countries to come to its aid.
C)   Slavery would be abolished.
D)   The war would not change their societies dramatically.
E)   None of these choices.F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 3

Southerners had advantages,too,and one of the strongest was the fact that the North

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A)   did not believe people in the South had the stomach for a real fight.
B)   failed to realize how much gallantry was involved in southern fighting.
C)   underestimated the determination of the South to hold on to slavery.
D)   had to invade the South to win the war, while the South only had to wage a defensive battle.
E)   was not dedicated to the fight.F) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

In what ways did Abraham Lincoln tamper with Americans' civil liberties during the war? What comparable steps were taken by Jefferson Davis in the Confederacy?

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Question 5

As the Civil War progressed,the North was able to prosecute the war without going into debt or changing its economic tax and revenue system,and the South successfully enacted several economic changes to finance the war,most of which were financially beneficial to the Confederacy and its citizens.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Since one of the reasons for southern secession was to protect states' rights from a too-powerful federal government,it was ironic that

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A)   to prosecute the war, the Confederate government had to assume a great deal of centralized control.
B)   the Confederate army was placed under President Jefferson Davis.
C)   when the war ended, the South had a much larger bureaucracy than did the North.
D)   the North was able to protect states' rights better than the South could.
E)   Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was not an especially strong supporter of states' rights.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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