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U.S. History
Civil War Reading Assignment
pp. 380-417
SSUSH9 The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course, and
consequences of the Civil War.
b. Describe President Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union as seen in his second inaugural address and
the Gettysburg speech and in his use of emergency powers, such as his decision to suspend habeas corpus.
c. Describe the roles of Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, William T. Sherman, and
Jefferson Davis.
d. Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the Battle for Atlanta and
the impact of geography on these battles.
e. Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
f. Explain the importance of the growing economic disparity between the North and the South through an
examination of population, functioning railroads, and industrial output.
Identify and answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Items with an asterisk* indicate a direct connection to SSUSH9.
1. Battle of Fort Sumter – date, location, results, importance.*
2. General Thomas Jackson*
3. What were the strengths/advantages of both the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War? How do
these indicate a growing economic disparity between North and South?*
4. What were the strategies of both the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War?
5. General Winfield Scott
6. The Anaconda Plan
7. War of attrition
8. General Ulysses S. Grant*
9. General Robert E. Lee*
10. Why was the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest single day of the war?*
11. Why was Antietam considered an important Union victory?*
12. What is a writ of habeas corpus? Why did President Lincoln suspend them? How was this an example
of Lincoln using “emergency powers” as President?*
13. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Why did it technically free no slaves? If it freed no slaves,
why is it important to the progress of the Civil War?*
14. Describe the difficult conditions soldiers faced on both sides of the Civil War.
15. Identify Andersonville.
16. Describe the Union victory at Gettysburg. Why is it considered a major turning point in the war?*
17. Read the Gettysburg Address on p. 409. What is the overall message Lincoln is trying to convey?*
18. Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg important? Consider the geographic consequences in your
answer.*
19. Who was William T. Sherman? How did he change the tide of the war in favor of the Union?*
20. What were the geographic consequences of the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman’s March to the Sea?*
21. What is the tone of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address? What words convey Lincoln’s tone?*
22. When was the 13th amendment passed? What did it do?*
23. What were the terms of the surrender at Appomattox?
24. Who was John Wilkes Booth?