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Chapter 16 Section 1
•Describe how fighting began at Fort Sumter.
•Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each side.
•Explain each side’s basic strategy.
•Summarize the results of the First Battle of Bull Run.
1. Big Idea Question: What was Fort Sumter and why did Lincoln decide to risk war by re-supplying Fort Sumter?
2. What was the beginning of the Civil War?
3. Big Idea Question: How did states in the North and the upper South respond to Lincoln’s call-up of militia?
4. How did Virginia’s decision to secede improve the South’s chances of winning?
5. Who was Robert E. Lee and what did he do?
6. Big Idea Question: What was a border state, and why were the border states important?
7. List the reasons why each border state stayed with the Union?
8. Big Idea Question: What were the strengths and weakness of each side?
9. Who was King Cotton?
10. What did the Confederacy expect to gain by withholding cotton from the market?
11. Big Idea Question Review: At the beginning of Civil War, what was the South strategy? (Create a flow map.)
12. What was the Anaconda Plan, and what were its drawbacks?
13. What is a blockade?
14. Big Idea Question Review: At the beginning of Civil War, what was the North strategy? (Create a flow map.)
15. What was the Union army’s strategic goal in the summer of 1861?
16. Big Idea Question: Describe the First Battle of Bull Run? (Create a flow-map.)
17. Big Idea Review Question: What conclusions did each side draw from the Northern defeat at Bull Run?
Chapter 16 Section 1
•Describe how fighting began at Fort Sumter.
•Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each side.
•Explain each side’s basic strategy.
•Summarize the results of the First Battle of Bull Run.
1. Big Idea Question: What was Fort Sumter and why did Lincoln decide to risk war by re-supplying Fort Sumter?
2. What was the beginning of the Civil War?
3. Big Idea Question: How did states in the North and the upper South respond to Lincoln’s call-up of militia?
4. How did Virginia’s decision to secede improve the South’s chances of winning?
5. Who was Robert E. Lee and what did he do?
6. Big Idea Question: What was a border state, and why were the border states important?
7. List the reasons why each border state stayed with the Union?
8. Big Idea Question: What were the strengths and weakness of each side?
9. Who was King Cotton?
10. What did the Confederacy expect to gain by withholding cotton from the market?
11. Big Idea Question Review: At the beginning of Civil War, what was the South strategy? (Create a flow map.)
12. What was the Anaconda Plan, and what were its drawbacks?
13. What is a blockade?
14. Big Idea Question Review: At the beginning of Civil War, what was the North strategy? (Create a flow map.)
15. What was the Union army’s strategic goal in the summer of 1861?
16. Big Idea Question: Describe the First Battle of Bull Run? (Create a flow-map.)
17. Big Idea Review Question: What conclusions did each side draw from the Northern defeat at Bull Run?