war of the nothern Agression

1. Were Southern politicians more or less likely to own slaves than other white Southerners?
1) yes they had a lot more power to make them do what they wanted and they probably had more money to spend on them.

2. Were higher level politicians more likely to own slaves than other politicians?
2) Yes because thats what the charts shows.

3. What do these facts suggest to you about the nature of the Southern political system?
3) It shows that the higher up you are in social the more you got.

4. How uniform were the proportion of slaves in the population and the proportion of whites owning slave across the South?
4) They were all over the place the owners sometimes used up more than the population offered.

5. Was there a relationship between the number of slaves in a state's population and whether and when it seceded from the Union?
5) No the people who were owning slaves didn't care about the law they just wanted to get more and more.

6. What material advantages did the North possess on the eve of the Civil War?
6) They had more factories to make a lot of things at once and they had more people and more transportation and the only thing they didn't have more of was blacks.

7. Do you think material advantages are decisive in the outcome of wars? Why or why not?
7) Of course it does the material advantages are what help the most in wars. The more you have the more power you have the more factories you have you can make more war things like guns and weaponry and the more people you have the more people you can use in the war and use all the weapons its but there is a little skill involved.

8. Why did troop strength peak in 1863?
8) Because they gained more experience after already fighting for a year.

9. Do you think that the differences in troop strength were responsible for the war's outcome?
9) Yes because they knew what they were doing and they did it well.

10. How does the cost of the Civil War--in casualties and expense--compare to the cost of other American wars?
10) They didn't have much money going toward veterans benefits so people might of died because they didn't care and the civil war was much bigger than some of the other American wars so the death rate is obviously going to be more.

11. Why do you think that the Civil War was so lethal?
11) Because there was so many troops fighting in the war. A lot of people died of disease.

12. What was the radical Republican program for reconstructing the Union?
12) It was an organization that used slaves to reconstruct the union till the law was passed against them.

13. What were the goals of the radical Republican program?
13) Their goal was to hang everything and they wanted it fast and now.

14. Why was the program unacceptable to President Andrew Johnson?
14) President Andrew Jonson didn't approve of anything they wanted to change.

15. Why do you think the North failed to follow through with policies that would have secured the rights and economic status of the freedmen?
15) Because they didn't have the right attitude and the government over ruled the power of the north to keep the slaves and they were all freedmen

16. What were the major political and social achievements of Reconstruction?
16) A lot of things differ in this questions because its almost like they made a new world, they did a lot of things like put up new schools banks people attitude was different overall they made a new world or way of life.