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Civil War and Reconstruction Study Guide
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Emergence of Two Political and Economic Systems (Union versus Confederate States of
America)
a. Two Presidents
b. Major military leaders – Lee, Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Jackson, Scott
c. Different nations – customs, values
d. Economic challenges and effects
e. Political challenges and effects
f. Emancipation Proclamation and its Effects
g. Suspension of Habeas Corpus and its Effects
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Strategies and Aims
a. Major war aims for both sides
b. Major strategies for both sides (attrition, Anaconda Plan)
c. Changes in the military
d. Major strengths and weaknesses for each side
e. Why soldiers did not desert
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Major Battles and their Significance
a. General fighting in the east and west
b. First Battle of Bull Run
c. Shiloh
d. Antietam
e. Turning Point Battles – Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville
f. Sherman’s March to the Sea
g. Appomattox
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Effects of the war and the costs (human and financial)
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Reconstruction Era:
a. Objective and time period
b. Dominant political party
c. Issues faced following the Civil War
d. Concept of Punishment or Pardon
e. Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan and feelings towards the South
f. Changes for Blacks (New freedoms, Black Codes, 13th/14th/15th Amendments, Jim
Crow) and Effects
g. Objectives of the Freedmen’s Bureau
h. Radical Reconstruction Plan
i. Relationship between Congress and Johnson (Tenure of Office Act, Command of
the Army Act, Impeachment and Effects)
j. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
k. Definition of the “New South” and major changes
l. Sharecropping versus Tenant Farming and Effects
m. Difficulties funding economic reorganization
n. Development and Effects of the KKK
o. Factors that Contributed to the End of Reconstruction (and its death!)
p. Reconstruction: Success or Failure?