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- Who's orders were to make the Shenandoah valley " a barren waste...so that crows flying over it...would have to carry their provender with them"
- Who was most hurt by Jefferson's embargo on trade?
- Which event challenged the foreign policy of President John Adams?
- Which do the following is not related to the war?
- T or F: Some Union generals believed winning required waging total war or war of attrition
- T or F: Many men were forced to serve in Civil War armies because of the draft
- T or F: Both the First and Second Battles of Bull Run ended in Confederate victory
- T or F: Photography was developed in time to provide many lasting images of the Civil War and its participants
- T or F: In the final battles of war, Grant was willing to sacrifice large numbers of his men in his efforts to wear down the enemy and force the south to surrender
- What did President Lincoln issue following the Battle of Antietam to strengthen the Union cause?
- T or F: The Anaconda Plan was developed by Southern generals
- T or F: Following the surrender at Appomattox, Confederate soldiers were generously allowed to return to their homes, taking their horses and firearms with them
- T or F: Civil War soldiers spent very little of their time in actual combat
- T or F: Pickett's charge was a costly attempt by Union forces to break the Confederate line at Gettysburg
- T or F: Rather than destroying Atlanta, Sherman secured it for the Union before continuing his March to the Sea
- T or F: Part of the Union's strategy for winning the war was to take control of the Mississippi River
- T or F: The south had more difficulty than the north in acquiring sufficient quantities of food and essential materials during the war
- T or F: Lincoln had no fear of losing the election of 1864 because Americans were generally anxious to win the war quickly
- T or F: The Civil War can be considered the first modern war because of all the new military and technological improvements that were employed
- Excluding any information from above, what is the most important event from section 2? Answer with a thesis, detail, and analysis.