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CH. 16 – CLASSWORK
Lesson 2
War on Land and at Sea
#1. – 10. Use the chart to write down facts about the battles described in this section. The first column contains
the name of the battle. The second column contains the date of the battle. The third column contains where the
battle took place. The fourth column contains which side won the battle and any other important facts. Some
information has been filled in for you.
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War in the Eastern States
11. How did the course of the war in the East differ from how things were progressing in the West?
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12. Which four battles did the South win in 1862 and 1863?
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13. List the leadership qualities displayed by Confederate Generals Lee and Jackson that helped them win
several battles in the East.
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14. What was Jefferson Davis's goal following the Confederate victories?
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15. What was Lee’s plan and how did Lee's plan in Maryland work?
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16. Why was General Lee's loss at Antietam important to the Union?
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Fill in the Blanks Read the section and fill in the blanks in the paragraphs below with words from the box.
Antietam
Union
wrong
enslaved
slavery
support
Frederick Douglass
government
border
free
morally
laws
17. Lincoln did not view the Civil War as a battle to end ________________.
18. His main goal was to keep the ________________ together.
19. Lincoln did not ________________ slavery, but he was afraid that he would lose the support of the
________________states if he moved against slavery.
20. Abolitionists ________________ and Horace Greeley convinced Lincoln that he needed to end slavery.
21. Slavery was ________________ wrong.
22. After the North won the Battle of ________________, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
23. All enslaved people in the South were to be ________________ as of January 1, 1863.
24. The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free ________________ people in the South because the
South was not following the ________________ of the United States.
25. The proclamation did, however, let everyone know that the ________________ believed that slavery was
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Answer Key
1. July 1861
2. Confederates won
3. Fort Henry
4. Tennessee River
5. Battle between ironclads
6. Off the coast of Virginia
7. Battle of Shiloh
8. Near Corinth, Mississippi
9. April 1862
10. Union Navy captured New Orleans
11. The Confederates had a series of victories in the East, while in the West the Union was making gains.
12. Seven Days' Battle, Second Battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville
13. knowledge of the terrain; ability to move troops quickly; ability to inspire troops
14. He wanted to bring the war into the Northern states.
15. Lee had planned to divide his army into four parts to confuse McClellan. An officer lost the plan, and it was
found by Union soldiers. The plan did not work.
16. The South's plan to invade the North had failed.
17. slavery
18. Union
19. support, border
20. Frederick Douglass
21. morally
22. Antietam
23. free
24. enslaved, laws
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25. government, wrong
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