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HISTORY 203 – CIVIL WAR/ WHAT IFS – CHRISTMAS VACATION
DIRECTIONS: Consider all of the following “What If” scenarios concerning the Civil
War. For each of the “What Ifs” explain its possible impact on the
outcome of the war and the future of the United States.
WHAT IF………
1. …the Border States of Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and
Missouri had seceded?
2. …the states of the Upper Mississippi Valley had seceded?
3. …Britain and/or France had decided to aid the Confederacy?
4. …the citizens of the North demanded an end to the fighting following the
losses at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville?
5. …Britain had not grown so dependent on ‘King Corn’?
6. …the Confederacy had freed the slaves during the fighting the Civil War?
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