Question 1

In what ways was the economic and social impact of the war similar in both North and South, and it what ways was it different?

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Question 2

Like the North during the Civil War, the South

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Question 3

It has been said that the South's devotion to states' rights was a major reason for its failure to win the Civil War.In what way is this probably true?

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Question 4

At the outset of the Civil War, which side was more likely to win? Is it more accurate to say that Union's strengths won the war, or that Confederate weaknesses caused it to lose?

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Question 5

Assess the validity of the following statement, "the Civil War was really a rich man's war and a poor man's fight."

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Question 6

The historians Charles and Mary Beard saw the Civil War as a "Second American Revolution" that marked the triumph of industrial capitalism over agrarian feudalism.Is this a persuasive interpretation of the war? Does it account accurately for the importance of nationalism and slavery in the war's causes and effects?

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Question 7

Explain why Britain finally decided against intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.In what ways was Britain helpful to the South anyway?

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Question 8

"King Cotton" failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy because

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Question 9

To what extent was President Lincoln justified in his violations of ordinary civil liberties during the Civil War?

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Question 10

Was Lincoln's initial policy of declaring that the Civil War was being fought only to save the Union, and not to free the slaves, a wise one? What might have happened had he announced a war for emancipation from the start?

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Question 11

The Confederate navy's commerce-raiders

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The Confederate navy's commerce-raiders significantly impacted the Union's merchant marine by capturing and sinking ships, thereby dealing a devastating blow to Union commerce. Many of these raiders, such as the CSS Alabama, were built in Britain, exploiting neutrality laws to obtain powerful ships that could outrun and outgun many Union merchant ships.

Question 12

To help pay for the Civil War, both the North and the South

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Both the North and the South raised taxes, printed paper currency, and sold bonds in order to try to finance the costs of the Civil War. The Union also imposed high protective tariffs during the war. A national income tax was not introduced in the United States until after the Civil War.

Question 13

When confronted with Southern secession in 1861, why didn't Lincoln simply allow the South to separate in peace?

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Question 14

Assess the validity of the following statement, "In some ways the South was a more militarily prepared and militarily oriented society than the North, but the North eventually manage to compensate for these advantages on the battlefield."

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