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Reading Questions: Unit Four of the Civil War – Shiloh through Chancellorsville

P. 490 - 510
1.	What is the irony concerning the Seven Days’ victories? (p. 490)
2.	What actions did the Union take to fill the ranks in 1862? What was the reaction? (p. 491-4)
3.	What were the three factions McPherson discusses among the Republicans? How were the abolitionists gaining more influence? (p. 494)
4.	What actions were the federal government and Lincoln taking regarding slavery in this period? (p. 496-99)
5.	What were the Militia and Confiscation Acts? (p. 500)
6.	Summarize the various approaches among the military towards slavery. (p. 501-503)
7.	How did Lincoln’s cabinet respond to Lincoln’s intention to issue an emancipation proclamation? (p. 505)
8.	How did emancipation play as a political issue? (p. 506)
9.	What were the reactions to the idea of colonization? ( p. 508-10)
P. 546 - 567
10.	Summarize the attitude of the British towards the war and how the Southern agents exploited British sympathies for the Confederacy. What was the attitude of various groups in England to the War? (p. 546-553)
11.	What was the French approach to the War and what actions did they take? (p. 553-54)
12.	What happened eventually to the European governments’ attempts to mediate a truce? Why? (p. 554-56)
13.	Why did Lincoln frame the Emancipation Proclamation the way he did? (p. 557-58)
14.	Summarize what happened in the congressional elections of 1862. What arguments were the Democrats able to make? (p. 560-62)
15.	How did the final Emancipation Proclamation differ from the initial Proclamation? (p. 563)
16.	Summarize the information on blacks in the military. (563-65)
17.	What was the response of the Confederacy to the Proclamation? (p. 565-67)
18.	According to the Guelzo article, why did Lincoln take so long to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? What other attempts had he made to emancipate slaves and why didn’t they work?
19.	According to Guelzo, why did he limit emancipation to those areas still in rebellion?
Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 591 - 611
20.	Who was Clement Vallandigham and what did he advocate? How did he illustrate the political divisions in the Union? What happened to him? (p. 591 – 598)
21..	How did Lincoln defend criticism of his approach to civil liberties? (P. 598 – 599)
22.	Explain how the Union draft worked and the ways to get out of it. (p. 600 – 611)
23.	What is the truth to the accusation that it was a “rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight” in the North? How was this slogan used to inflame feeling in the North? (p. 600 – 611)
p. 611-626
24.	How did conscription, taxes and impressments work in the South and how did these three issues lead to the perception there that it was a “rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight?” (p. 611 – 623)
25.	What evidence is there of dissension in the Confederacy? (p. 613 -614)
26.	What were the causes of the South’s food crisis? What was the reaction of the citizenry and the government?(p. 611 – 620)
27.	Why did both sides look the other way while illegal trading across lines was going on? Explain how the illegal trade worked and efforts that were taken to stop it. (p. 620-625)