After the secession of South Carolina, the first crisis facing Lincoln was  the    
 southern invasion of Maryland.    
 loss of New Orleans.    
 * problem of Fort Sumter.    
 southern attack on Harper's Ferry.    
    

The decision of four slave states to stay within the Union     
 caused Lincoln to legalize slavery in all northern states.    
 * negated the Confederate argument that they were forced to secede to protect the  right to own slaves.   
 negated the northern argument that they were fighting to free the slaves.    
 gave the South a military advantage.    
    


Lincoln felt that his primary responsibility as president was to     
 free the slaves.    
 * preserve the Union.    
 make the South pay for its defection.    
 keep England out of the war.    
    

Which one of the following was LEAST likely to be drafted into the  Confederate military on the provisions of the draft law?    
 * a southern planter from Mississippi with 30 slaves    
 a non-slaveholding yeoman farmer from Alabama    
 a 30-year-old miller from Charleston    
 an 18-year-old apprentice printer from Texas    
    

Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg  successfully achieved this Union war goal:    
 * cut off the Confederate states west of the Mississippi    
 obtain stored up cotton from southern docks    
 seize the resource-rich lower South    
 isolate South Carolina