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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 15 “A War for Union Emancipation: 1861 – 1865” COMMON THREADS What made the South secede from the Union? In what ways did the military strategies of the North and South reflect the differences between the two regions? What was the relationship between emancipation and war? Why did the South lose the Civil War? Why did the North win? What happened to the slaves who were freed by the war? OUTLINE From Union to Emancipation The South Secedes Civilians Demand a Total War Slaves Take Advantage of the War Military Strategy and the Shift in War Aims Mobilizing for War The Confederate States of America Union Naval Supremacy Southern Military Advantages The Slave Economy in Wartime What Were Soldiers Fighting For? The Civil War Becomes a Social Revolution Union Victories in the West Southern Military Strength in the East Emancipation as a Military Necessity America and the World: The Diplomacy of Emancipation Emancipation in Practice: Contraband Camps and Black Troops American Landscape: Freedman’s Village, Arlington, Virginia The War at Home The Care of Casualties Northern Reverses and Antiwar Sentiment Gettysburg and the Justification of the War Discontent in the Confederacy The War Comes to a Bloody End Grant Takes Command The Theory and Practice of Hard War Sherman Marches and Lee Surrenders The Meaning of the Civil War Conclusion WHO? WHAT? Edmund Ruffin Secession Jefferson Davis Cooperationism Abraham Lincoln Fort Sumter George B. McClellan Contrabands U. S. Grant King cotton diplomacy Robert E. Lee Bull Run William T. Sherman Antietam Vicksburg Gettysburg Arlington Conscription Draft riots Hard war Appomattox REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What reasons did southerners give for seceding? 2. What were the relative military advantages of the North and South at the beginning of the war? 3. What made emancipation a “military necessity”? 4. How much antiwar sentiment was there in the Union and in the Confederacy? NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS
