Author Question: After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of ... (Read 45 times)

lracut11 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of

a. taking too many strategic and tactical risks that endangered his troops.
b. relying on Lincoln's military judgment.
c. being unconcerned about the morale of his troops.
d. not drilling his troops enough to prepare them for battle.
e. consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.

Question 2

Despite some economic benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists generally disliked it because it

a. forced the South into a one-crop economy.
b. favored the northern over the southern colonies.
c. required American colonists to display a measure of economic initiative and self-sufficiency as they were unable to demonstrate trading in international economic markets.
d. stifled economic initiative and imposed a rankling dependency on British government agents and creditors.
e. forced them to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price.