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- Financial institution set up by the wartime federal government to sell war bonds and issue a stable paper currency.
- True or False: In order to appease the Border States, Lincoln first insisted that the North was fighting only to preserve the Union and not to abolish slavery.
- Lincoln argued that his assertion of sweeping executive powers and suspension of certain civil liberties was justified because
- True or False: The South's advantage in the Civil War was that it only had to fight to a stalemate on its own territory, while the North had to fight a war of conquest against a hostile population.
- A British ship from which two Confederate diplomats were forcibly removed by the U.S. Navy,, creating a major crisis between London and Washington
- Which of the following was not among the Border States?a) Missourib) Kentucky c) Oklahomad) Delaware
- The original four Border States where secession failed but slavery still survived.
- True or False: The Civil War draft reflected the North's commitment to fighting a war based on the ideal of equal treatment of citizens from all economic conditions.
- Ironclad warships that were kept out of Confederate hands by Minister Adams's stern protests to the British government.
- Among the significant advantages the Confederacy possessed at the beginning of the Civil War was..
- The four states that joined the Confederacy only after Lincoln's call for troops to suppress the rebellion in April 1861 were
- The federal military installation in Charleston Harboor against which the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
- Confederate navy warship built in Britain that wreaked havoc on Norththern shipping until it was finally sunk in 1864.
- True or False: Northern women effectively supported the Union cause through hospital and relief work in ways that southern women were prevented from doing.
- True or False: The North effectively financed its Civil War effort through an income tax, higher tariffs, and the sale of federal government bonds.
- True or False: The French Emperor Napoleon III took advantage of America's Civil War to invade Mexico and install his puppet Emperor Maximilian as the ruler here.
- Many new products were introduced in the 1920s. What was the effect of these new products. How did people buy them if they didn't have enough money?
- How many years did the Great Depression Last.
- Who was president at the beginning of the depression, and what year was he elected?
- What is a Dust Bowl, when did it begin in the United States, and how long did the Dust Bowl last during the great Depression?