Civil War

Battles:
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Antietam
Shiloh
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Sherman’s March to the Sea

People:
Albert Sidney Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Johnson
Joe Hooker
Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E Lee
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
A.P. Hill
James Longstreet
Booker T Washington
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas

1) Why does the author suggest that John Brown had a sense of humor?
2) What was John Brown's plan?
3) Why did John Brown become a symbol?
4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.


How did the Civil War shape our lives today?

Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.

What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?

List the four border states.

Why did West Virginia form?

What disadvantages did the South fact?

Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?

What were the three main strategies of the Union?

What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?

What was the outcome of Bull Run?

Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.

What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?

What did the 13th Amendment do?

How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?

Discuss the draft laws in the north.

Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?

Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?

What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Chapter 21

1) What was the impact of the Battle of Bull Run?
2) What was the impact of the Peninsula campaign?  How did it change Union goals?
3) What was the Anaconda Plan?
4) What were the major events of the war at sea?
5) What was the importance of the Battle of Antietam Creek?
6) What were the terms of the Emancipation?  Was it constitutional?
7) What legally abolished slavery in the United States?
8) To what extend did blacks serve in the war?
9) Why did Lee attempt to invade the North?  What was the impact of Gettysburg?
10) What was the importance of Vicksburg?
11) Who were the Copperheads?  What was the Union party of 1864?
12) Who was the Democratic candidate in 1864?  Republican/Union Party?  Who won and why?
13) What was Grant's strategy to end the war?
14) What was Grant's strategy to end the war?

Chapter 20: Girding for War

1) Why did European powers favor war in America?
2) How did Lincoln approach the Ft. Sumter crisis?
3) What action did Lincoln take to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union?
4) What was the original goal in the war as stated by Lincoln?
5) What side did the Indians tend to side with?
6) What advantages did the South possess?  What disadvantages?
7) What advantages did the North posses?  What disadvantages?
8) What supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the war never materialized?
9) Why did the British refuse to break the Union blockade?
10) What event nearly pushed the Union and the British to war?
11) What actions did France play during the Civil War?
12) How did the concept of states' rights impact the Southern war effort?
13) How did the different presidents run their nations during the war?
14) How did the North get their troops?  South?
15) How did the North and South pay for the Civil War?
16) What was the impact of the war on the Northern economy?  Southern Economy?

US History Chapter 19

1) What was described in Uncle Tom's Cabin?  What was its impact?
2) What was bleeding Kansas?  Why did it occur?
3) What did the caning of Sumner exemplify?
4) Who were the candidates in the election of 1856?
5) What was the main platform of the "Know-Nothings"?
6)  Why did the Republicans lose the election of 1856?
7)  Explain the Dred Scott decision?  What was its impact?
8) What were the major points of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
9) What was the goal of Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
10) What was the South's reaction to Harper's Ferry?
11)  What were the political platforms of the candidates for office in 1860?
12)  What were the results of the election of 1860?
13)  What was the Crittenden Compromise?
14)  Why did the Southern States secede from the Union?

Chapter 18

1) What did national parties often do to maintain national unity in regards to the slavery issue?
2) What was the impact of the Mexican War on the slavery issue?
3) What were the beliefs of the Free Soil Party?
4) What does the term "popular sovereignty" mean?
5) What was the key issue in the election of 1848?
6) What event brought turmoil to the presidency of Zachary Taylor?
7) What type of people went to California?
8) Why did the Free Soilers condemn slavery?
9) Who was Harriet Tubman?  What did she do?
10) What was Calhoun's plan to protect the South?
11) What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?  Reaction from North and South?
12) How was slavery impacted by the push for a transcontinental railroad?
13) How did Douglas propose to address slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?

Chapter 16 Study Questions

1) What happened to slavery as a result of the cotton gin?
2) What were the characteristics of the southern aristocracy?
3) What was the impact of plantation agriculture on the land?
4) What were the weaknesses of the slave plantation system?
5) Why did the slave-less whites support the slave system?
6) What was typical northern attitudes towards free blacks?
7) What happened to the South's economy based on the slavery system?
8) Where were the most slaves concentrated in the South?
9) How did slaves fight the slavery system?
10) What are some examples of slave uprisings in the South?
11) Who were the following people: William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas?
12) What was the 1st political party who focused on the issue of abolition?

Monday 1/14/2013

Today - we will look at Nick and Trevor's Mexican-American War project.  Discuss why the Mexican-American War was fought.  We will also go over Study Questions on Chapter 13, and AL will present what she read and learned in Howard Zinn's A People's History.  We will then begin to discuss the roots of the Civil War.