Chapter 39

§§ 402, 403.--_a_. What is a blockade? What was the effect of the blockade on the South?

_b_. Had sea power been in Southern hands, could the Union have been saved?

_c_. Why was Charleston so difficult to capture? (Compare with the Revolutionary War.)

§§ 405, 406.--_a_. What help did the Southerners hope to obtain from Great Britain and France? Why? How were their hopes disappointed?

_b_. What do you think of the action of the English mill operatives?

_c_. Describe the Trent Affair. What do you think of Lincoln's action? Did the British government act wisely?

§§ 406, 407.--_a_. What had the Republican party declared about slavery in the states? What had Lincoln said in his inaugural?

_b_. How had the war altered Lincoln's power as President?

_c_. Why was it necessary for Lincoln to follow Northern sentiment?

_d_. What is contraband of war? How were the slaves contraband?

§§ 408, 409.--_a_. What steps had already been taken by Congress toward freeing the slaves?

_b_. How was the Emancipation Proclamation justified? Upon what would its enforcement depend?

_c_. What slave states were not affected by this proclamation?

_d_. How was slavery as an institution abolished throughout the United States?

§§ 410, 411.--_a_. Why was not the North united upon this war?

_b_. What is the force of the writ of _habeas corpus_? Why is it so important?

_c_. What was the "draft," and why was it necessary?