Jefferson Davis was chosen president of the Confederacy because he was
a. the most outspoken of the radical secessionists.
b. a nephew of George Washington and would therefore make the Confederacy more legitimate.
c. a moderate who had extensive military and political experience.
d. the only person who wanted to assume the office.
e. from the North.
c
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What will be an ideal response?
Which statement accurately describes why that state refused to join the Confederacy?
A) Delaware was mainly a nonslaveholding state that had no desire to be part of a slave Confederacy. B) Missouri's citizens were united in their loyalty to the Union and in their belief that an independent slave confederacy could not survive. C) Virginia's nonslaveholding eastern part of the state refused to secede with the western part¾which named itself West Virginia when it joined the Confederacy. D) Maryland's popular politician, Hannibal Hamlin, had just been elected vice president. E) Kentucky had a Unionist legislature whose resolve was strengthened by the presence of Grant's troops across the river in Illinois.
The America First Committee __________
A) urged Americans to prepare for war B) opposed U.S. intervention in Europe C) called on America to ally itself with Nazi Germany D) was repudiated by famed aviator Charles Lindbergh
The long known and the long expected has thus taken place. The forces endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are moving toward this hemisphere. Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty, and civilization. Delay invites greater danger. Rapid and united effort by all the peoples of the world who are determined to remain free will insure a world victory of the forces of justice and of righteousness over the forces of savagery and of barbarism. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, address to the United States Congress, 1941 The address quoted above was likely given in response to which of the following?
(A) Germany's invasion of France (B) Russia's occupation of eastern Poland (C) Germany's bombing of Great Britain (D) Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (E) Japan's bombing of Hawaii