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Brinkley Chapter 14
Pgs 366-399
“The Civil War” 1861-1865
Essays:
DBQ Question:
1. To what extent was the secession of the Southern states the result of the breakdown in
the legacy of compromise that began at the Constitutional Convention?
2. Why did the institution of slavery command the loyalty of the vast majority of
antebellum whites, despite the fact that only a small percentage of them owned slaves?
3. The Confederate States of America had no chance of achieving their independence.
Assess the validity of this statement.
Key Terms to Know and Memorize:
1. Secession Crisis
2. Crittenden
Compromise
3. Jefferson Davis
4. Fort Sumter
5. The Confederate
States of America
(The Confederacy)
6. Border States
7. Trent Affair
8. Confiscation Act
9. Plan Anaconda
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
William H. Seward
Salmon P. Chase
Edwin Stanton
Fort Sumter, 1861
Border States
15. Robert E. Lee
16. Army of Northern
Virginia
17. Habeas Corpus
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Army of the
Potomac
20. George McClellan
21. Emancipation
Proclamation, 1863
22. Morrill Tariff Act, 1861
23. Homestead Act, 1862
24. National Bank Act, 1863
25. Conscription Law,
26. New York Draft Riots
27. 1863 Emancipation
Proclamation
28. Lincoln Suspends the
Writ of Habeas Corpus
29. Ex Parte Milligan
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
Thirteenth Amendment
Manassas/Bull Run
Antietam/Sharpsburg
The Peninsula Campaign
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Siege of Petersburg
Ulysses S. Grant “The
Butcher”
38. Election of 1864
39. Union Party
40. "Copperheads"
41. Andrew Johnson
42. William T. Sherman,
43. Sherman’s March
44. Conscription Law,
1863
45. Morrill Tariff Act,
1861
46. Appomattox Court
House
47. Lincoln’s
Proclamation of
Amnesty and
Reconstruction
48. Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural Address
49. John Wilkes Booth
50. Freedman's Bureau,
1865
51. John Wilkes Booth
Brinkley Chapter 14
Pgs 366-399
“The Civil War” 1861-1865
Specifics of Chapter:
Part 1 (Due Tuesday, January 6)
1. Read the introduction- list the effects of the War
2. Make a T chart of Advantages Union and Confederate and the Dis-Advantages Union
and Confederate.
3. The War allowed the Union to pass a number of laws that aided economic
development… Which do you believe had the most lasting impact? (Homestead Act,
Morill Land Grant, Transcontinental Rail Road)
4. How did each side predominantly fund the War?
5. Summarize the Draft Riots in New City.
6. Do you think Lincoln was justified limiting Civil Liberties?
7. Why is the election of 1864 significant to understanding the war?
Part 2 (Due Friday, January )
8. How are the Confiscation Acts similar to the Emancipation Proclamation?
9. Choose one of the following and summarize the development in relation to the war:
(Women in the war; African Americans and the Union war effort)
10. What was Lincoln’s strategy?
11. Create a timeline of battles and events for one year of the war: 1862, 1863 or 1864
(Confederate victories above the line)
1861-------------------1862
(Union Victories and developments below the line)
Summarize the significance of the timeline and what can be learned.
12. What made General Grant so special in the eyes of Lincoln?
13. Why was diplomacy so crucial to the CSA war effort?
14. William Tecumseh Sherman coined the phrase “War is Hell” (more of less). How did
he usher in a new understanding of how war would be fought in the future?