As a Result of the Union Loss in the Peninsula

question 10

Multiple Choice

As a result of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign

• A) Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces.
• B) the North decided to fight a war of containment.
• C) Lincoln began to draft the 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.

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