Study Guide – Unit Six: From Gettysburg to Lincoln’s Re-election

Date Due	Assignment
Weds., Apr. 15	1. Read your assigned section on of Chapter 20: A. For the North, read p. 591-611 and answer questions 20 – 23 and for the South, read p. 611-625 and answer questions 24 - 27. Answer your assigned questions and be prepared to teach others about your subject .
Thurs., Apr. 16	Presentation on Vicksburg (For more background, you can read p. 626-638)
Mon., Apr. 20	1. Read p. 684 – 713 2. Answer Reading Questions 9 – 16
Tues., Apr. 21	Presentations on Chickamauga and Chattanooga (For more background, you can read p. 666 – 681)
Weds., Apr. 22	1. Read the information on the Massacre at Fort Pillow. 2. Read p. 713 – 717 AND 760-773 3. Answer questions 17 - 21
Fri., Apr. 24	We will be going to see the artillery exhibition. Come to my room right at the end of 4^th period and the start of lunch. Bring a lunch to eat in the car.
Mon., Apr.27	Presentation on the Overland Campaign (For more background, you can read p. 718 – 732)
Tues., Apr. 28	Presentation on Atlanta (For more background, you can read p. 743-756, p. 773 - 775 AND p 807 – 811)
Weds., Apr. 29	1. Read p. 788 – 806 2. Answer questions 22-25
Thurs., Apr. 30	Test

Questions and Themes for Unit Six

· What were the political divisions in the North during the war? What tactics did each side use to gain support? Why did Lincoln eventually win the election of 1864?

· Be able to explain Grant’s strategy at Vicksburg and why and how the Union won that battle

· Be able to describe what happened in the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga and why the Confederates won the first and the Union won the latter

· What were foreign policy concerns for both sides during this period?

· How did various groups approach Reconstruction while the war was going on? What success or failure did the Union have with their attempts at Reconstruction in territories already conquered?

· How did enlistment problems affect the fighting in 1864?

· What was Grant’s strategy as he took over the command of the Union army? What parts of his strategy were successful and which were failures?

· How did the fighting in the Overland campaign differ from previous fighting in Virginia?

· What was the general strategy that Sherman used to take Atlanta?

· What happened with peace negotiations and the plots of the “Peace Democrats” in 1864?

· Be familiar with the conditions in the POW camps and the explanations for why this was so.

Identifications

1.	Clement Vallandigham	30.	James Longstreet	59.	Benjamin Butler
2.	Peace Democrats/Copperheads	31.	Chickamauga	60.	Franz Sigel
3.	Lincoln’s letters on civil liberties	32.	George Thomas	61.	Battle of Drewry’s Bluff
4.	Draft Act	33.	Leonidas Polk	62.	Battle of New Market
5.	Substitutes for the draft	34.	Nathan B. Forrest	63.	Battle fo the Wilderness
6.	Commutation fee for the draft	35.	Lookout Mountain	64.	Battle of Spotsylvania
7.	Bounties	36.	Missionary Ridge	65.	Philip Sheridan
8.	Draft riots	37.	“Battle Above the Clouds”	66.	Yellow Tavern
9.	“Twenty-Negro Law”	38.	Patrick Cleburne	67.	J.E.B. Stuart
10.	Deserters, draft evaders and Unionists in the South	39.	Charles Francis Adams	68.	Col. Emory Upton
11.	Zebulon Vance	40.	The Laird rams	69.	Bloody Angle
12.	Impressment	41.	Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon)	70.	“Lee to the rear!”
13.	Income tax	42.	Maximilian	71.	Battle of Cold Harbor
14.	Bread riots	43.	George W. Woodward	72.	John Bell Hood
15.	Grant’s General Order #11	44.	54^th Massachusetts Infantry	73.	Fort Pillow
16.	Illegal cotton trade across lines	45.	Fort Wagner	74.	Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
17.	Benjamin Butler	46.	Robert Gould Shaw	75.	James B. McPherson
18.	Nathaniel P. Banks	47.	Suspension of writ of habeas corpus	76.	Sherman’s March to the Sea
19.	Vicksburg	48.	Alexander Stephens	77.	David Farragut
20.	John C. Pemberton	49.	William W. Holden	78.	Mobile Bay
21.	Joseph Johnston	50.	Thaddeus Stephens	79.	Niagara Falls negotiations
22.	Ulysses Grant	51.	Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction	80.	Chicago Platform
23.	William T. Sherman	52.	Wade-Davis bill	81.	George B. McClellan
24.	David Dixon Porter	53.	Freedmen’s Bureau	82.	Jubal Early
25.	Port Hudson	54.	Salmon P. chase	83.	Sheridan’s Shenandoah campaign
26.	William S. Rosecrans	55.	John C. Fremont	84.	Battle of Cedar Creek
27.	Chattanooga	56.	Baltimore convention	85.	Exchange cartel
28.	Knoxville	57.	National Union Party	86.	Andersonville
29.	Braxton Bragg	58.	Red River campaign	87.	Election of 1864