Question

1.The Southern states had more people than the Northern states to fight in the war.

True or False

2.The North manufactured more than 90% of all the goods in America.

True or False

3.One advantage the South had in the war was better military leaders like Robert E. Lee.

True or False

4.Southern victory in the Civil War meant the United States would follow the path that the South laid down. It would become an industrial rather than agrarian nation, with a national government pre-eminent over those of individual states.

True or False

5.With the Homestead Act, if you were an American Indian, you did not get to have land.

True or false

6.The main strategies of the British was to capture all the cities and force the colonies to surrender such as New York, Boston and Charleston.

True or False

7.The revolution was deeply hypocritical. How could Thomas Jefferson write that all men are created equal when he himself owned slaves.

True or Fase

Answer 1

1. True - The South had more people than Northern states

2. True - The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3,200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South. [source : www.nsp.org ]

3. True - While the North had generals and Military generals as well, the South had an abundance of partially retired or recently demoted Military ranking officers.

4. True - The south was focused on creating industry in the cheapest way possible

5. True - Native Americans were forced out of their homes and off sacred land to make room for the government to lay down more land for paying and law abiding ‘citizens’

6. False -
“The new British strategy was to capture New York, where many Loyalists lived, and use it as a base to conquer the middle colonies. In 1776, the British launched the largest sea and land offensive before the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, and nearly trapped Washington's army in Brooklyn.” [source : www.digitalhistory.uj.edu

7. True - Thomas Jefferson was a Hypocrite by all definitions. He wrote “All men are created equal” In regards to ‘men’ as in ‘all people’ and then left out people of color, poor people, women, and children.

Answer 2

True, true, true, false, false, true, false