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AP US History
Chapter 16 Study Guide and Terms
STEP 1 Directions: All of the quiz questions below need to be answered IN YOUR
NOTES for the on-line quiz. The quiz will only allow you to work for 60 minutes so you
need to have read the book ahead of time. DUE:
STEP 2 Directions: On a note card write the term, on the backside complete the
following:
A) Identify the term on, whom or what is this card?
B) For each term, complete the Historic Thinking Skill Task provided above that
section. Use the term as evidence to answer the question provided in the task.
Quiz Questions:
1. How did the Union deal with escaped slaves in the beginnings of the war?
2. How did Benjamin Butler change the war?
3. How did Lincoln try to persuade the Border States towards
emancipation? What was their reaction?
4. How did the Battle of Antietam affect the decision over slavery?
Terms
Historic Thinking Skill Task-Change/Continuity Over Time: For each of the
following terms explain how each term showed a change of the Union policy towards
slavery.
Benjamin Butler
“contraband of war”
Confiscation act of 1861
Battle of Antietam (This battle Emancipation Proclamation
did not involves slaves but led
to something important, be
able to explain why!!!)
Quiz Questions:
5. What happened to Copperheads who spoke out against the war in the
North?
6. What happened to the demands for more soldiers in the North and the
South? Why was the reaction so strong?
Terms
Historic Thinking Skill Task- Causation: The Civil War added more stress to
problems within society that existed before the war. For each of the following terms
explain what issue was made worse by the war:
Clement Vallandigham
Copperheads
New York Draft riots
Twenty Negro Law
“bounty jumpers”
Quiz Questions:
7. How can 1863 be seen as a great turning point in the war for the Union?
What battles were fought and how did they help the Union?
8. Besides freeing the slaves, what else did the Emancipation Proclamation
do?
Terms
Historic Thinking Skill Task-Causation: The following terms are some of the most
important in the study of the Civil War. Each one had a drastic impact on the war.
Explain how each term below impacted the war?
Battle of Gettysburg
54th Infantry Regiment of
Mass.
Battle of Vicksburg
Col. Robert Shaw
13th Amendment
Quiz Questions:
9. How did the Confederacy change their strategy late in 1863 into 1864?
What was their new goal?
10. What struggles and failures did the Union have in 1864?
11. Why was there a controversy over exchanging prisoners?
12. What events helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864?
13. Describe the fighting of the war towards the end, what was Grant and
especially Sherman’s strategy?
Terms
Historic Thinking Skill Task Argumentation: After 1863 people tend to think the
war was easy to win for the Union and that it was just a matter of time. The reality
was the war was far from over and could have easily ended very differently.
Analyze the evidence below and for each term explain how this term showed the
battle was still very difficult.
Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor Battle of Petersburg
Battle of Atlanta
Election of 1864
Sherman’s March
Appomattox