Study Guide – Unit Four: The First Year of the War

 

Date Due

Assignment

Weds., Jan. 28

Battle Plan due

Fri., Jan., 30

1. You will read either

A. p. 282 – 293 (to “Kentuckians…) and answer questions 1 – 4 OR

B. 293 – 307 and answer questions 5 - 7  OR

C. p. 308 – 321 and answer questions 8 – 10

Please write out detailed answers so that you can share them with others.

Mon., Feb. 2

1. Read p. 339 – 350 and the handout on the Battle of First Bull Run

2. Fill out the worksheet on First Bull Run

Tues., Feb. 3

1. Read p. 321 – 338

2. Answer questions 11 – 15

Weds., Feb. 4

1. Read p. 350 – 368.

2. Answer questions 16 - 20

Thurs., Feb. 5

1. Geography Quiz

2. Read p. 378 – 391.

3. Answer questions 21 - 23

Mon., Feb. 9

1. Read p. 428 – 453

2. Answer questions 24 - 28

Tues., Feb. 10

1. Read p. 423 – 427 and p. 461-477

2. Fill in the worksheet on the Peninsular Campaign and the Seven Days Battles

Weds., Feb. 11

Work on your role for the Press Conference on Weds. These sites might be of use to you.

http://www.peninsulacampaign.org/

http://www.civilwarhome.com/peninsul.htm

http://www.civilwarhome.com/sevendays.htm

Thurs., Feb. 12

Be prepared for your role in the “Press Conference”. 

Today is the 200 year anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday.

Tues., Feb. 17

Review for the test

Weds., Feb. 18

Test

 

Questions and Themes for Unit Three: The First Year of War

 

o        How are the four Border States kept within the Union? What actions does Lincoln take that threatened civil liberties?

o        What happens in the military engagements that take place at the very start of the war in Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia?  What characteristics do military leaders such as Grant, McClellan, Thomas, Rosecrans, Sherman, and Buell for the North and Lee and Polk for the South demonstrate in these early days?

o        At the start of the war what advantages and disadvantages did each side have?  In what respects were they basically a match?

o        What were the reasons why men fought?

o        What were the challenges and successes that each side faced as they put together their armies and navies? How were each side’s armies organized?  What effect will this have on fighting?

o        How did the training that officers had received at West Point influence the way they would approach battle tactics and war strategy?  How did battle tactics change since the Mexican War?

o        What changes took place in infantry arms and what was their effect on the battlefield?

o        What mistakes were made at the battle of First Bull Run?  What was its impact?

o        What was the debate over emancipation of slaves in the first months of the war?  What position did Lincoln take and why?

o        How effective was the blockade?  How was the war progressing along the coast?

o        How was the war progressing along the diplomatic front?

o        How did battle of Hampton Roads change naval warfare? 

o        What tactics made Grant successful at Forts Henry and Donelson?

o        What was McClellan’s strategy in the peninsular campaign and how successful was he?

o        What were the differences between the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee?

o        How did the South finance the war and fill their ranks?  Did the states right philosophy hurt the South?

o        How did the Republicans change the role of the federal government during the war?

o        Should Abraham Lincoln be regarded as a savior or a tyrant?

o        Be able to analyze why and how Jackson was successful in the Shenandoah Valley campaign.

o        Be able to analyze the Seven Days’ Battles.  Why was Lee successful?

o        What was the impact of the changes in weapons on battle tactics?

 

 

Union Officers and Officials

Confederate Officers and Officials

1.

Gen. Benjamin F. Butler

1.

Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson

2.

Captain Nathaniel Lyon

2.

Gen. Sterling Price

3.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

3.

William Quantrill

4.

Gov. Francis Pierpoint

4.

Gen. Leonidas Polk

5.

Gen. George B. McClellan

5.

James D. Bulloch

6.

Gen. William S. Rosecrans

6.

Josiah Gorgas

7.

Gen. William T. Sherman

7.

Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard

8.

Gen. George H. Thomas

8.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

9.

Gen. Don Carlos Buell

9.

Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

10.

Andrew Johnson

10.

Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard

11.

Gustavus V. Fox

11.

Gen. John Floyd

12.

Edwin M. Stanton

12.

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner

13.

Montgomery Meigs

13.

 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston

14.

Gen. Irvin McDowell

14.

Gen. Gideon Pillow

15.

Gen. Henry W. Halleck

15.

Gen. John B. Magruder

16.

Gen. Robert Patterson

16.

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

17.

Gen. Irwin McDowell

 

 

18.

Gen. Benjamin Butler

 

 

19.

General. George B. McClellan

 

 

20.

John Ericsson

 

 

21.

Andrew H. Foote

 

 

22.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

 

 

23.

Gen. William T. Sherman

 

 

24.

Gen. Lew Wallace

 

 

25.

Commodore. David Farragut

 

 

26.

Gen. Nathaniel Banks

 

 

27.

Gen. John C. Fremont

 

 

 

Identifications

 

 

 

1.

Baltimore riots

22.

Battle of Ball’s Bluff

43.

Internal Revenue Act (1862)

2.

Ex parte Merryman

23.

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

44.

Legal Tender Act (1862)

3.

Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers

24.

Trent Affair

45.

Homestead Act (1862)

4.

Gov. Beriah Magoffin

25.

Hampton Roads

46.

Transcontinental Railroad

5.

Wheeling convention

26.

Burnside’s coastal expedition

47.

Shenandoah Valley

6.

West Virginia

27.

Merrimack and Monitor

48.

“Offensive Defensive” strategy

7.

Tredegar Iron Works

28.

Battle of Hampton Roads

49.

Chickahominy River

8.

Ordnance Bureau

29.

“King Cotton Diplomacy”

50.

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks

9.

Quartermaster’s Department

30.

Columbus, KY

51.

Seven Days’ Battles

10.

U.S. Sanitary Commission

31.

Fort Donelson

52.

Battle of Mechanicsville

11.

Antoine Henry Jomini

32.

Fort Henry

53.

Battle of Gaines’ Mill

12.

Dennis Hart Mahan

33.

Battle of Pea Ridge

54.

Front Royal

13.

Anaconda Plan

34.

Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing

55.

Winchester

14.

“On to Richmond”

35.

Corinth, MS

56.

Battle of Malvern Hill

15.

Offensive-defensive strategy

36.

Island No. 10

57.

Harrison’s Landing

16.

Shenandoah Valley

37.

New Orleans

58.

Minié Ball

17.

Battle of First Bull Run or Manassas

38.

Vicksburg

 

 

18.

Battle of Wilson’s Creek

39.

Port Hudson

 

 

19.

John C. Fremont’s Proclamation

40.

McClellan’s peninsular campaign

 

 

20.

“Contraband of War”

41.

Siege of Yorktown

 

 

21.

Fort Monroe

42.

Conscription in the Confederacy

 

 

 

You will need to be able to find the locations of the following for the Geography Quiz

 

Be able to list these

Virginia

Rivers in the West

Other

The Lower South States

Rappahannock River

Ohio

Chesapeake Bay

The Upper South States

Potomac River

Cumberland

Blue Ridge Mts.

The Slave States (15 as of 1860)

James River

Tennessee

Appalachian Mts.

The Free States (18 as of 1860)

Chickahominy River

Mississippi

 

The Border States

York River

Red

 

 

North and South Anna Rivers

 

 

 

Rapidan River

 

 

 

Shenandoah River and Valley

 

 

 

For ever battle we discuss, you should be able to indicate on a map where it took place.