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CHAPTER 16 SECTION 1
Civil War Reading Essentials
Civil War: The Two Sides
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Essential Question
What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South?
Directions: As you read, complete the diagram.
Strategies for Victory for the North and the South (War Plans)
North
South
Goals and Strategies (page 475-477)
Explain
The Border States
Why were the border states
Important to both the North
and the South?
Comparing North and South
War Aims
Confederate Strategies
Union Strategies
Americans Against Americans (page 477-479)
False Hopes
Who Were the Soldiers
The Life of a Soldier
The Reality of War
Section Wrap-Up
What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South?
CHAPTER 16 SECTION 2
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Civil War: Early Stages of the War
Why did neither the Union nor the Confederacy gain a strong advantage during the early years of the war?
Directions: As you read, complete the diagram.
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3 Major Battles in each Section of the Country and Who Won each Battle?
West
East
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War on Land and Sea (page 481-484)
Cause and Effect
First Battle of Bull Run
Why did Union Forces attack
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
War in the West
War of the Ironclads
The Battle of Shiloh
New Orleans Falls
War in the East (page 484-486)
Identifying
Victories for the Confederacy
Which side won more battles in
the east?
Invasion of the North
Battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation (page 486-487)
Describing
The Debate
What did the Emancipation
Proclamation do?
Lincoln Decides
Effects of the Proclamation
What technological advances were made during the early years of the war that had an impact on how the war
was fought?
CHAPTER 16 SECTION 3
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Civil War: Life During the War
Essential Question
What social, political, and economic changes resulted from the war?
Different Way of Life (page 491)
Life at Home
Shortages in the South
New Roles for Women (page 492-493)
Listing
Treatment of Sick and Wounded
List three new roles that women
filled during the war.
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3.
Spies
Prison Camps and Field Hospitals (page 493-494)
In the Hands of the Enemy
Field Hospitals
Political and Economic Change (page 494-497)
In the North
In the South
Draft Laws
Economic Effects
What ideas in society changed/advanced as a result of the Civil War? (I.e. role of women)
What political and economic changes resulted from the war?
Political-
Economic-
CHAPTER 16 SECTION 4
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Civil War: The Strain of War
Essential Question
How did the events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg change the course of the War?
Southern Victories (page 499-500)
Explain
Battle of Fredricksburg (2 bullets)
What was Lee’s strategy at the
Battle of Chancellorsville?
Battle of Chancellorsville (2 bullets)
Weak Union Generals (2 bullets)
African Americans in the War (page 501)
In the South
In the North
The 54th Massachusetts
The Tide of War Turns (page 502-505)
Battle of Gettysburg
The Vicksburg Siege
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
How did the events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg change the course of the War?
CHAPTER 16 SECTION 5
Reading Essentials
Civil War: The War’s Final Stages
Essential Question
What events led to the end of the war?
Total War Strikes the South (page 507-509)
Union Strategy (2 bullets)
Grant in Charge (2 bullets)
Sherman in Georgia
The Election of 1864
The War’s End (page 510-512)
Sherman’s March to the Sea
The Fall of Richmond
Surrender at Appomattox
The Toll of War (4 bullets)
What events led to the end of the war? Explain.