During the Civil War, the Union's attempts to cut the Confederacy off from seaborne commerce proved difficult at first because:
A) British merchant ships aggressively pushed through to southern ports and challenged the Union's authority to block their trade.
B) Confederates relied on allied coastal tribes to harass the Union navy with small attacks from the shore.
C) the strategy of a naval blockade was new and had never been tried before.
D) the Union only had forty-two ships to patrol 3,550 miles of Confederate coastline.
E) the southerners did not need foreign imports and ignored the Union occupation of New Orleans.
D
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a. Anthony Wayne b. Richard Johnson c. Andrew Jackson d. U. S. Grant
What specific problem did farmers hope the subtreasury plan would solve?
A) low tariffs B) high railroad rates C) low prices D) high taxes
In the late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were
A. former Old World aristocrats that emigrated from Europe. B. still first-generation settlers. C. rooted to one plantation for many generations. D. part of a wealthy leisure class. E. from longstanding aristocratic families.
All of the following is true of the home front in the United States EXCEPT
A) the Great Depression continued, although the worst effects of it were alleviated. B) massive amounts of government money financed new industries. C) the chemicals and electronics industries developed significantly. D) the government created a new Office of Scientific Research and Development. E) traditional social mores often broke down in the transformation of small towns into big cities.