Download Reading Guide for Goal 3 Civil War and Reconstruction

Reading Guide Civil War and Reconstruction: AP US/ Chapters 15-16
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Discuss military, political, and economic factors that affected the outcome of the war.
How many men served in the Union and Confederate army?
What did the conscription law require?
Why did the Confederacy’s Conscription Act anger the South?
Discuss in detail the ways in which both sides financed the war.
Compare and contrast the leadership styles of both Lincoln and Davis. Whose was more effective and
why?
Name the border states and what was their position during the war? How did both the Confederacy and
Union deal with them?
What effect did the rifle have on the Civil War? Explain.
Compare and contrast the Union’s and the South’s strategies for defeating each other. Which was more
effective and why?
Create a chart or graphic organizer on the major battles of the Civil War which includes leaders outcome,
and victory.
Explain how soldiers’ misguided view of becoming “war heroes” quickly faded once they engaged in
training and their first battles and duties.
Explain how the South overestimated the importance of its “cotton diplomacy” and discuss its
relationship with the British during the Civil War.
What was the Confiscation Act of 1861? How did it affect the role of African Americans during the war?
Lincoln said, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or
destroy slavery.” What did he mean?
Discuss the role of African American soldiers in the Union army.
How did the war affect the institution of slavery in the South. What worries surrounded southern
planters during the war?
Why was the Homestead Act passed in 1862?
What accounted for the great shortages in the South during the Civil War?
How did the southern woman change during the Civil War?
What prompted the New York City draft riots?
List at least 5 famous Civil War nurses.
Discuss the impact of Sherman’s March to the Sea. What was his legacy in the South?
Discuss how and why the war eventually came to an end? Who won? Why? And describe the scene of
the surrender at Appomattox.
How many soldiers died in the Civil War? How many from each side?
Explain how the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction differed from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s.
(create a chart highlighting the differences)
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
In what ways did the southern legislators limit the rights of the freedmen in the South?
Why did the Radicals impeach Johnson? How did it end?
What was “redemption” in the South?
30. What finally ended Reconstruction in the South? Evaluate this compromise. Discuss its legacy.