Study Guide – Unit Four: From Shiloh to Chancellorsville

Date Due	Assignment
Thurs., Feb. 19	Presentation on Shiloh Work on your homework for Friday
Fri., Feb. 20	1. Read p. 490-510 2. Answer questions 1 – 9 on filling the ranks and politics
Mon., Feb. 23	Work on your homework for Friday
Tues., Feb. 24	Presentation on Second Manassas Work on HW for next Friday
Weds., Feb. 25	Presentation on Antietam
Thurs., Feb. 26	Presentation on Perryville
Fri., Feb. 27	1. Read p. 546 – 567 2. Answer questions 10 – 17
Mon., Mar. 2	1. Read the article on The Emancipation Proclamation by Allen Guelzo and make margin notes on the arguments he makes to defend Lincoln’s Proclamation. 3. Answer questions 18 - 19
Tues., Mar. 3	Presentation on Chancellorsville
Weds., Mar. 4	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., Mar. 5	Read the article, “Lincoln: Savior or Tyrant” and be prepared to debate how Lincoln should be perceived today by historians.
Fri., Mar. 6	Review for the test
Mon., Mar. 9	Test

Questions and Themes for Unit Four

· How was the Union army hampered in its efforts to consolidate its progress in the Western Theater?

· What mistakes did each side make at Shiloh? Why was the Union ultimately successful?

· What mistakes did the Union make at Second Manassas? Why was Lee successful?

· What tactics did the Union utilize to fill the ranks?

· How did the War impact the political parties? What about the issue of emancipation?

· Be able to analyze the mistakes that the Union forces made at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. What tactics did Lee use in those three battles?

· What mistakes did both sides make at Perryville and Stones River?

· What was the diplomatic situation in 1862?

· What reasons did Lincoln use to make the Emancipation Proclamation?

· Is it correct to regard Lincoln as having freed the slaves or do they deserve the credit for self-emancipation?

· How should historians view Lincoln today?

Identifications

1.	Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing	21.	Stonewall Jackson	41.	Rappahannock River
2.	Corinth, MS	22.	Battle of Cedar Mountain	42.	Marye’s Heights
3.	William T. Sherman	23.	Herman Haupt	43.	William S. Rosecrans
4.	Lew Wallace	24.	James Longstreet	44.	Battle of Murfreesboro or Stones River
5.	Island No. 10	25.	Bounties	45.	John C. Breckinridge
6.	New Orleans	26.	Copperheads	46.	“Mud March”
7.	Commodore. David Farragut	27.	Compensation policy	47.	Jubal Early
8.	Don Carlos Buell	28.	Gen. David Hunter’s declaration	48.	Oliver O. Howard
9.	Nathan Bedford Forrest	29.	Militia Act	49.	John Sedgwick
10.	Braxton Bragg	30.	Confiscation Act	50.	James D. Bulloch
11.	Army of Tennessee	31.	Gen. John Pope	51.	Florida and Alabama
12.	Chattanooga	32.	McClellan’s Harrison’s Landing letter	52.	Charles Francis Adams
13.	Kirby Smith	33.	George B. McClellan	53.	Lord Palmerston
14.	Philip Sheridan	34.	Harper’s Ferry	54.	Louis Napoleon
15.	Battle of Perryville	35.	Special Orders 191	55.	Emancipation Proclamation
16.	Battle of Corinth	36.	Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg	56.	Congressional Elections of 1862
17.	William S. Rosecrans	37.	Ambrose Burnside	57.	Frederick Douglass
18.	John Pope	38.	Joseph Hooker	58.	Massachusetts 54^th and 55^th
19.	Battle of Second Manassas	39.	A. P. Hill
20.	Fitz-John Porter	40.	Battle of Fredericksburg

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter