Study Guide - Unit Five: The Coming of the Civil War

Due Date	Assignment
Weds., Nov. 9	1. Read p. 312 – 314 2. Answer questions 1 and 2
Mon., Nov. 14	1. Read p. 315 – 317 2. Start filling the battle chart
Tues., Nov. 15	1. Read p. 318 – 322 2. Answer questions 3 – 6
Weds., Nov. 16	1. Read p. 323 – 328 2. Answer questions 8 - 11
Thurs., Nov. 17	1. Read p. 329 – 339 2. Answer questions 12 – 14 3. Keep filling in the war chart
Fri., Nov. 18	1. Topic Selection Due for your Research Paper (double HW grade) 2. Map and Battle Charts Due
Mon., Nov. 21	1. Read the Gettysburg Address 2. Read the Second Inaugural Address 3. For each speech, make a list of the points that Lincoln is making using your own words.
Tues., Nov. 22	1. Read p. 340 – 345 2. Answer questions 15 and 16
Mon., Nov. 28	Preliminary Bibliography Due (quintuple HW grade)
Tues., Nov. 29	Review for Test
Weds., Nov. 30	Test

Reading Questions

Answer the following.

1.	Using all that you know of military history, make up a list of the advantages and disadvantages each side had at the beginning of the war.
2.	List the events that took place after the firing on Fort Sumter.
3.	Describe the relations between each side and Britain in the first part of the war.
4.	What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually say and what effect did it have on the war?
5.	Describe what Lincoln did in regard to civil rights during the war.
6.	What approach did each side take to getting more men into their armies?
7.	Using the reading in the AI book, summarize Adrian Cook’s explanation of the New York City riots.
8.	Summarize the role of African Americans during the war.
9.	Contrast the economies of the South and the North during the war.
10.	What was life like for soldiers on the line and in the prisoner of war camps?
11.	What did women do to help the war effort?
12.	What events show the deteriorating Southern morale after the defeats of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
13.	Why did it look like Lincoln was going to lose the election of 1864? What events in the war led to Lincoln’s victory over McClellan?
14.	Use the text and the handout to analyze how Sherman justifies conducting war on civilian populations.
15.	Use the text and the handout to list ways that the Civil War provided the economic foundation for the US to experience tremendous economic growth.
16.	Last as many effects that the Civil War had on our country as you can. Consider political, economic, technological, social, and military consequences of the war.

Identifications: You should be familiar with all of these items by the time we finish the unit.

1.	Fort Sumter	9.	Writ of habeas corpus	18.	Clara Barton
2.	Border states	10.	Copperheads	19.	Gettysburg Address
3.	Anaconda plan	11.	Clement Vallandigham	20.	Sherman’s March to the Sea
4.	King Cotton Diplomacy	12.	Conscription Act (1862)	21.	Election of 1864
5.	Jefferson Davis	13.	Enrollment Act (1863)	22.	Appomattox
6.	Trent Affair	14.	New York Draft riots	23.	Matthew Brady
7.	The Alabama	15.	Fort Pillow	24.	Ironclads
8.	Emancipation Proclamation	16.	Andersonville Prison	25.	Thirteenth Amendment
		17.	US Sanitary Commission	26.	John Wilkes Booth

Map: Major Battles of the Civil War

_{Use the maps in your book on pages 315 and 335 to fill in your own map. Make a key for your map.}

1. Color the Union states and the Confederate states in two different colors. Use a third color for the four Border States that were slave states but remained in the Union.

2. Mark the following battles and places on the map. Label the Union victories in blue and the Confederate victories in red. Use a third color for indecisive battles.

Fort Sumter	New Orleans	Chancellorsville	Spotsylvania
First Bull Run	Seven Days’ Battle	Vicksburg	Cold Harbor
Fort Henry	Second Bull Run	Gettysburg	Atlanta
Fort Donelson	Antietam	Chickamauga	Mobile Bay
Hampton Roads	Perryville	Chattanooga	Petersburg
Shiloh	Fredericksburg	Wilderness	Appomattox Courthouse

You will also be responsible for the information on your battle chart and map. You will be allowed to use them on the test. These are the military leaders you will learn about from the book and video.

Union Leaders		Confederate Leaders
Ulysses S. Grant	Joseph Hooker	Robert E. Lee	Albert S. Johnson
Irwin McDowell	George Meade	Stonewall Jackson	J.E.B. Stuart
William T. Sherman	William Rosecrans	Joseph E. Johnston	James Longstreet
George McClellan	George Thomas	Pierre G. T. Beauregard	Braxton Bragg
John Pope	David G. Farragut
Ambrose Burnside	Philip Sheridan

Themes

o What were the relative advantages and disadvantages of each side at the start of the war? How did these strengths and weaknesses determine the strategy that each side took to fight the war?

o What legislation did the Republican Party pass that was unrelated to the war? How did they impact the nation’s expansion westward?

o How did each side finance the war?

o What means did each side pursue in seeking foreign allies? Why did the Confederacy’s hope for European allies not materialize?

o What were the key turning points in the war?

o What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and not do for the slave population of the South? How did blacks contribute to the war effort?

o How did each side curtail the rights of individual private citizens?

o What impact did the war have on people’s daily lives during the war? In what ways did women contribute to the war effort?

o In what ways did the North’s goals in fighting the war change during the war?