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- How many were killed at Fort Sumter?
- Better leadership, Lee/Jackson/Beauregard etc.
- Strategy: Didn't have to win, make the opponent quit and go home
- Immigrants, free blacks, runaway slaves plentiful
- Lacked factories, railroads, population, open outside help, moral high ground
- What battle fired the first shots of the war?
- Moral high ground especially following Emancipation Proclamation
- Who was the first to shoot for the Union in Fort Sumter?
- Who was the first to shoot for the CSA in Fort Sumter?
- What was the primary motivation for Europeans to begin exploring?
- More of everything, men, guns, railroads, factories, shoes, ships, uniforms, thc.
- Desertion was not a major problem in the Confederate army as it was in the Union army.
- What two continents did the Bering Land Bridge connect?
- In Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan, blacks played a predominant role in Reconstruction.
- Because of Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Republicans suffered reverses in the 1862 midterm elections.
- Andrew Johnson: a. lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinionb. agreed with Lincoln that some African-Americans should be allowed suffrage rightsc. simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies d. won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868, but narrowly lost the electione. displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln
- The Sea Island experiment demonstrated how ex-slaves could be gainfully employed, educated, and well provided for.
- The Civil War was devastating to the South, which lost nearly one-fifth of its white adult male population.
- The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was:a. federal protection of civil rightsb. black suffragec. reunification of the Uniond. public educatione. land reform
- The Emancipation Proclamation represented a turning point in Lincoln's own thinking.