The most basic similarity between the Union and the Confederacy when the  Civil War began was that both sides    
 * were unprepared for the ordeal that lay ahead.    
 had an equal number of states.    
 were suitably armed and prepared for war.    
 had strong central governments.    
    

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.    
    

When Jefferson Davis made his call to arms,     
 * men flocked to enlist.    
 most poor whites refused to answer.    
 many southerners were ambivalent about joining up.    
 many used their slaves as substitutes.    
    

When Lincoln made his call to arms, many northern communities     
 * responded enthusiastically.    
 were ambivalent about joining up.    
 rioted against fighting a war to free slaves.    
 reacted with indifference.    
    

Slave states that did not secede from the Union were     
 Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.    
 North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.    
 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas.    
 * Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.    
    

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    
    


The control of what waterway was pivotal to Union success in the Civil War?     
 Ohio River    
 Red River    
 * Mississippi River    
 Missouri River