CHAPTER XX: Girding for War: The North and the South

REVISED

1. How did geography make secession of the South from the North problematic?
   
2. What kinds of problems did secession pose for America?
   
3. What happened at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861? How was Lincoln cagey about the crisis?
   
4. Why did Lincoln reportedly lament that he hoped God was on his side, but he knew that he had to have Kentucky?
   
5. Why was the Civil War called a brother's war?
   
6. What advantages did the South have over the North?
   
7. What advantages did the North have?
   
8. How did relative strengths and weaknesses help determine strategy during the war?
   
9. What were European attitudes towards the Civil War? Why didn't British officials recognize the C.S.A.?
   
10. How was "King Cotton dethroned"?
    
11. What did the Alabama have to do with the English? How did Charles Francis Adams fit into the scheme?
    
12. What were the Laird Rams? How did Czar Alexander II help preserve world peace at the time of the crisis?
    
13. How were Lincoln and Davis alike? How were they different?
    
14. What were Copperheads and what did they have to do with the irregular actions Lincoln took regarding the Constitution?
    
15. How did the North benefit from the Civil War?
    
16. Why might a "shoddy millionaire" identify with the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge?