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EY67 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee's Confederate army

a. Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces.
b. the North decided to fight a war of containment.
c. Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.
d. Lincoln decided that the key to the war was controlling the Mississippi River.
e. the Union commanders were left without an overall military strategy.

Question 2

All of the following were direct benefits reaped by the Americans from the mercantile system of Britain except

a. British allowed the Americans to freely trade with other countries and compete on the open market.
b. London paid high prices for ship parts to American producers.
c. Virginia tobacco planters enjoyed a monopoly in the British market.
d. protection of the world's mightiest navy and army without a penny of cost.
e. some British merchants were not allowed to compete with the American colonial merchants.