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Chapter 21 Focus Questions: Essay question: What was the relative importance of the following as factors in the Northern victory over the South during the Civil War? Emancipation Proclamation Western Battle Campaigns Eastern Battle Camptains Objective Questions: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) What was the Union goal in the First Battle of Bull Run? How was the South’s victory at the First Bull Run harmful to its cause and helpful to the northern cause? What was the Peninsula Campaign and describe General McClellan’s actions before and during the campaign. How did the outcome of the Peninsula Campaign influence Lincoln’s decision on making slavery an issue in the war? What was the Anaconda plan? Why didn’t Britain offer greater protest against the Union naval blockade of the Confederate coastline? What were the Merrimack and the Monitor and how did they revolutionize naval warfare? How was McClellan able to stop Lee’s advance on Maryland in the Battle of Antietam and how was McClellan rewarded by Lincoln for the victory? What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Be accurate in your description of the document’s contents. Assess the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on each of the following: a. European intervention; b. public opinion in the border slave states; c. free black and abolitionist opinion in the North; d. Irish immigrant and northern “know nothing” opinion; e. public opinion in the South. How did the Emancipation Proclamation impact African-American participation in the Civil War? Describe the contributions made by African-Americans in fighting for freedom and preserving the Union. Why did the Confederacy enlist slaves into their army? Why did Lee invade Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863? How was the Battle of Gettysburg significant in the war’s outcome? Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg significant? How did Generals such as Grant and Sherman overcome the supply disadvantage of fighting a war of conquest? What were the three groups of northern Democrats during the Civil War and which group was most dangerous to the North’s goal of preserving the Union and why? Who was Clement Vallandigham? Who were the candidates of the Union (Republican) party and the Democratic party in the 1864 election campaign, why did Lincoln choose Andrew Johnson as his running mate, and why did Lincoln’s re-election appear unlikely? Describe the Wilderness campaign and put the impact it had on Lincoln’s reelection. What was the impact of Sherman’s capture of Atlanta and Sheridan’s destruction of the Shenandoah Valley on the outcome of the 1864 presidential election and the outcome of the war? Where did Lee surrender to Grant and what were Grant’s terms? How was Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth a catastrophe for the South?