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U.S. History Homework Sheet
Civil War & Reconstruction
Due Thursday January 3, 2008
Read: The Civil War Begins pages 338-339.
Questions:
1) Describe the situation at Fort Sumter. What was Lincoln’s dilemma? What was Lincoln’s decision? Was it the right
decision?
2) How did the situation at Fort Sumter ignite the Civil War?
3) Was war inevitable prior to Fort Sumter? After?
4) What was the impact of this first attack?
Due Friday January 4, 2008
Read: The Civil War Begins pages 340-345
Questions:
1) Identify: Bull Run, Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, Ulysses S. Grant, Shiloh, Robert E Lee, and Antietam.
2) What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and the South?
3) Why do you think Americans expected a short war?
4) What were the strategies of the Union and Confederacy? Why did newspapers call the Union strategy the Anaconda
plan?
Due Monday January 7, 2008
Read: The Politics of War pages 346-350
Questions:
1) What problems would have arisen if Britain joined the war?
2) What was Lincoln’s primary goal during the first part of the Civil War?
3) How does Lincoln use his powers as commander-in-chief to emancipate slaves? Do you think he abused his
powers?
4) Who did the Emancipation Proclamation freed?
5) What was the reaction of free blacks, Northerners and Southerners to the Emancipation Proclamation?
6) How did the EP change he purpose of the war? Was this a turning point in the Civil War? Explain.
7) Describe the draft riots that occurred in New York City.
Due Tuesday January 8, 2008
Read: Life During Wartime pages 351-356
Questions:
1) How did the war change the North and the South economically and socially?
2) What effects did the Civil War have on women and African Americans?
3) What was life like for soldiers on both sides of the war?
Due Wednesday January 9, 2008
Read: The North Takes Charge pages 357-365
Questions:
1) Identify in a sentence or two the following terms and names: Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg
Address, William Tecumseh Sherman and Appomattox Court House.
2) Which battles/events in this chapter do you think were turning points in the Civil War?
3) What beliefs about the United States did Lincoln express in the Gettysburg address? Why do you think this speech
is so memorable or important?
4) How did the Union win the Civil War?
Due Thursday January 10, 2008
Read: The Legacy of War pages 366-371
Questions:
1) What were the economic political and social changes that occurred as result of the Civil War?
2) What was the human cost of the war? Does this number surprise you?
3) Describe the assassination of President Lincoln? What were his dreams or goals for the Union?
Due Friday January 11, 2008
Read: The Politics of Reconstruction pages 376-382
Questions:
1) Create/complete the following chart below:
Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction Johnson’s Plan for
Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
2) Identify in a sentence or two the following terms and names: Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stevens, Wade-Davis
Bill, Freedmen’s Bureau, Black Codes, 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
3) Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Due Monday January 14, 2008
Read: Reconstructing Society pages 383-392
Questions:
1) Identify in a sentence or two the following terms and names: scalawag, carpetbagger, Hiram Revels, sharecropping,
tenant farming?
2) List at least five problems that the South faced as a result of the Civil War?
3) How did freed African Americans try to improve their lives?
Due Tuesday January 15, 2008
Read: The Collapse of Reconstruction pages 393-401
Questions:
1) Identify in a sentence or two the following terms and names: KKK, panic of 1873, redemption, Rutherford B Hayes,
Samuel Tilden, and the Compromise of 1877.
2) Was reconstruction a success or failure? Use the chart on page 400 to identify both sides of the argument.
Due Thursday January 19, 2008
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Exam – Civil War & Reconstruction