Chapter Review

1. Question

   What steps did Lincoln take to prevent war? Why were they ineffective?

2. Question

   What advantages and disadvantages did each side have at the onset of the war?

3. Question

   What arguments did each side make in the debate over African American enlistment in the Union army?

4. Question

   How and why did the Civil War become a war to end slavery?

5. Question

   What were the short- and long-term economic effects of the war on the North?

6. Question

   How did the war change the southern economy? What social tensions did the war create in the South?

7. Question

   What role did African Americans play in the defeat of the South?

8. Question

   How did the Union win the war? How did attitudes toward African Americans change in the final year of the war?