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Reading Questions – Unit Seven: Northern Victory, Southern Defeat

 

 

P. 735 (from “The horrors….) to p. 743

1.

What was the Cold Harbor Syndrome and how did it influence how the Army of the Potomac fought?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

What happened to General Hunter’s expedition in the Shenandoah Valley?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

What happened when the Union troops reached Petersburg?  What mistakes were made and how does James McPherson explain those actions?

 

 

 

 

 

pp. 756 - 760

4.

Summarize what happened during Jubal Early’s raid on Washington. (p. 756-7)

5.

Summarize what happened in the battle of the Crater.  What mistakes were made? (p. 758 – 60)

 

pp. 777 - 781

6.

What did General Phil Sheridan accomplish in the Valley?  What did he do at the Battle of Cedar Creek?  What was the impact of Sheridan’s actions on morale in the Union?

 (p. 777-781)

P. 784 (from “Partisan warfare….) - 788

 

7.

Summarize what was going on in the bloody partisan warfare along the Kansas-Missouri border.  Identify the key figures.  What happened at Lawrence, Kansas and At Centralia.  What eventually happened to the guerrillas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P. 811 (from “Thomas had indeed…..”) – 825

 

8.

Summarize what happened in the battles of Franklin and Nashville?  What mistakes were made?  What was the impact of the battle?

 

9.

What was the state of the Northern economy at this point in the war?

 

10.

What happened at Fort Fisher?  What was the impact of its fall?

 

11.

What happened at the Hampton Roads peace negotiations?  What position did each side take and what was the result?

 

P. 831 - 842

 

12.

What was Patrick Cleburne’s proposal?  What were the reactions to his proposal?  What arguments did each side make?  What was the eventual decision by the legislature?

 

13.

How did the 13th Amendment eventually pass?

 

14.

What were some signs of change for Negroes in this period?

 

15.

What was in “Special Field Orders, No. 15?”

 

p. 842-852

 

16.

What were the legal and political questions involved in discussion of Reconstruction?

 

17.

What happened at Fort Stedman and Five Forks?

 

18.

Describe Lincoln’s visit to Richmond.

 

19.

What happened at Amelia Courthouse?  Why did Lee have to eventually surrender?

 

20.

Summarize the terms agreed to at Appomattox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handout on Religion during the Civil War in the North

 

 

21.

Read the printout on Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Side.  Summarize the points about religion in the North during the War.