Download Chapter 14 - The Civil War

Chapter 14 - The Civil War
Study Guide
o Formation of the Confederacy. What prompted it? Who joined first? Who joined
after Fort Sumter
o Jefferson Davis. Job before secession, job after secession.
o Crittenden Compromise- what were its many components? Who proposed? Who
agreed? Who disagreed?
o Battles of the Civil War Where? When? Who? Results? Major turning points?
Role in Anaconda Plan
o Advantages each side had during the war. How did the strategies play to these
advantages?
o Effects of the war on both sides - actions taken by both sides during the war
o Causes of the Civil War (Blue section - Pages 376-377)
o Emancipation Proclamation and its effects, the timing?
o Reasons for fighting the war - North and South
o Role of African Americans and Women throughout the war. Experiences of black
soldiers. Nurses.
o Union Generals vs. Confederate Generals
o Trent Affair. Why did Lincoln Concede? Role of foreign powers in the American
Civil War?
o Aspects of the Anaconda Plan and successes, timing.
o Sequence of Events - Major Battles: Bull Run I and II, Fort Sumter, Shiloh,
Antietam, Chancellorsville and March to the Sea- impact and significance
o Civil War Map – Confederate States before Fort Sumter, After Fort Sumter,
Border States, New States during the War, Union States
o Election of 1864. Parties? Candidates? Results?
o Why did some slave states not join the Confederacy?
o Significance of New Orleans? Richmond? Atlanta? Savannah?
o Turning Point: Vicksburg and Gettysburg July 1863.
o Economic problems faced by the South.
o Death toll and casualties. Why so high?
o Gettysburg Address- Why it may just be the best paragraph ever written about this
country.