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[History help] I need help! please answer these questions!!!?

True or False?

One and two are false. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution years prior to the American Civil War. Three is true. An example is the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, whose officers were all white. Their Colonel died with them as they assaulted Battery Wagner (also called Fort Wagner) – see the movie “Glory” for a thrilling and accurate portrayal of the 54th.

Question 1. The rifled musket was the major improvement in weaponry at that time. A smoothbore musket is accurate within 75 to 150 yards, while the rifled musket will reach out and touch someone a thousand yards off.

Question 2. The North simply had more men from which to draw recruits. They also recruited immigrants right off the boat. A great many Irish and German immigrants had had prior military experience in Europe, and made great Union soldiers. The Union also began enlisting black men – which the South never did.
The South was severely limited in manpower available for soldering. They didn’t recruit immigrants; almost none landed at Southern ports during the Civil War. They did recruit American Indians, even making one Indian chief a brigadier general – but their numbers were not nearly great enough to offset the South’s combat losses. And they never attempted to recruit blacks. When Confederate General Patrick Cleburne suggested in 1865 that the South make soldiers of slaves by offering them their freedom in return, Georgia Senator Howell Cobb answered “If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong!” Cobb, nor most Southerners, could not accept that possibility.

Question 3. Money was always a severe problem for the South. They printed their own but with nothing to back it up, so that by war’s end, Confederate money was truly not worth the paper it was printed on. Taxation was their only way to raise significant sums. The North, on the other hand, was able not only to tax a much larger number of citizens, it was able to continue commerce with overseas business partners. Frequently, captured Southern cotton would be shipped overseas and the money raised placed in Mr. Lincoln’s war chest. And far, far more Northerners were in a position to donate significant sums of money and large amounts of essential goods like food and desperately needed supplies like bandages, clothing, medicines and whiskey (considered a medication back then).

Question 4. The blockade, almost as transparent as glass when the war began, grew far, far more effective as the war went on. It gradually made it impossible to import weapons and medicines, and severely curtailed imports of other goods such as textiles, and played havoc with coastal shipping as well, such that agricultural products could not be sent from one Southern port to another. Southerners literally began to starve. Another major contributor to the difficulty imposed by the Union naval blockade was the fact that Southern rail transport was about as inefficient as could be imagined. There were many fewer miles of track in the South and far less rolling stock (locomotives and rail cars) to begin with. Southerners also had fewer good roads, and almost unimaginable numbers of horses and mules were purchased or confiscated by the Confederacy to pull artillery pieces, supply wagons and for other military uses, meaning that even had there been good roads, the Confederacy would’ve had a hard time getting goods and food from one place to another – there weren’t enough draft animals. Most historians agree – had it not been for the Union naval blockade, the South may well have won!

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