Download Bailey Chapter 21

Bailey Chapter 21
“I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists, because
the Constitution forbids it, and the general welfare does not require us to do so.”
~Lincoln 1851
“…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
and forever free.”
~Lincoln 1863
1) In what ways does Bailey see a victory for the Union and a defeat for the
Confederacy at the Battle of Bull Run (1861)? In the Seven Days Battles of the
Peninsula Campaign?
2) Explain the six components of the Northern military plan.
3) What Civil War themes are intertwined in the story of the Merrimac?
4) Does it make sense that McClellan was fired after Antietam?
5) Why does Bailey suggest that the Emancipation Proclamation was stronger on
proclamation than emancipation? To what degree does this affect the document’s
significance?
6) What contributions did Blacks in the North and the South make to the dissolution
of slavery during the Civil War?
7) Should we care about Pope, Burnsides, Hooker, or Meade?
8) Do you think of Antietam or Gettysburg as the turning point of the war?
9) Who was more important to the Union victory in the Civil War, Grant or Lincoln?
10) Was Sherman’s March moral?
11) To what degree were Northerners united behind Lincoln during the Civil War?
12) Who was a better general, Grant or Lee?
13) How did Lincoln’s assassination affect the South