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racism –
border state –
martial law –
Confederacy –
counter –
inaugural address –
secede –
sentiment –
shell –
sovereignty –
Battle of Bull Run –
Virginia –
Monitor –
Battle of Antietam –
Battle of Fredericksburg –
Battle of Chancellorsville –
Battle of Shiloh –
blockade –
offensive –
rally –
retreat –
emancipate –
Emancipation Proclamation –
54TH Massachusetts Regiment –
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desert –
motive –
regiment –
Copperheads –
draft –
habeas corpus –
income tax –
inflation –
profiteer –
tactic –
vital –
siege –
Battle of Gettysburg –
Pickett’s Charge –
Gettysburg Address –
total war –
Appomattox Court House –
barrage –
casualties –
distinctions –
lament –
preservation – to keep in existence or to protect
reinforcements –
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1. What city was the capital of the Confederacy ?
2. Which Army had a defensive strategy ?
3.
List each public official’s job/task during the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee –
Abraham Lincoln –
Ulysses S. Grant –
Jefferson Davis –
4.
Why did small southern farmers resent the Confederacy’s draft law ?
5. List the four original border slave states.
a.
b.
c.
d.
6. How did Ulysses S. Grant’s concept of “total war” differ from earlier strategies ?
7. List the 4 states that seceded from the Union after the original seven states ?
a.
b.
c.
d.
8.
What work during the Civil War changed employment opportunities for women in American
society ?
9.
Based on Lincoln’s words below, how do you think Lincoln believed that the South should be
treated after the Civil War ?
10.
How did the northern blockade affect the south ?
11.
List 2 successful strategies the North had for winning the Civil War ?
a.
b.
12.
In the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln said that soldiers had sacrificed their lives to
ensure that “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the
earth.” What type of government was Lincoln referring to ?
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13.
What caused most Union soldiers to die ?
14.
What was President Lincoln’s goal for obtaining peace with the southern states ?
15.
Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union ?
16.
What was the main disadvantage for the North in the Civil War ?
17.
List 4 disadvantages for the South in the Civil War…
a.
b.
c.
d.
18.
List 6 battles that were considered a ‘victory’ for the Union ?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
19.
List the 4 battles that were considered a ‘victory’ for the Confederacy ?
a.
b.
c.
d.
20.
What was the main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War ?
21.
How was General Grant planning to end the Civil War ?
22.
Why did the Civil War mark a major turning point in American history ?
23.
List the main effect of the Emancipation Proclamation.
24.
Describe why was the Battle of Gettysburg has been noted as a turning point in the Civil War.
25.
Describe what the Emancipation Proclamation Speech meant to…
The white man –
The black man –
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26. Summarizes the constitutional conflict over states’ rights during the Civil War ?
Southern-Point-of-View –
Northern-Point-of-View –
27.
What are the reasons that General US Grant’s victory at Shiloh affect the Civil War ?
a.
b.
28.
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of
the Civil War…We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may
have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection…
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
Based on the quotation, describe how Abraham Lincoln viewed his role as President of the
growing civil conflict ?
29.
Why was the Battle of Vicksburg so important in guiding the direction of the Civil War ?
30.
What effect did BOTH the South and the North experience during the Civil War ?
31.
What lesson was learned by both sides in the early days of the Civil War ?
32.
Describe Robert E Lee.
a.
b.
c.
d.
33.
What was the most significant result of the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of
Chancellorsville ?
34.
How did slaves in the South contribute to the Union war effort ?
35.
Summarize army life for the soldiers during the Civil War…
36.
How were the Union’s major goals achieved in the Civil War ?
37.
What ‘knowledge’ was learned from the early Civil War battles ?
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38.
List an ‘economic’ change in the South towards the end of the war.
39.
How did African Americans in the Union Army contribute to the war effort ?
40.
How did these females serve the Armies during the Civil War ?
Sojourner Truth –
Clara Barton –
Dorothea Dix –
Sally Tompkins –
41.
Describe Jefferson Davis
a.
b.
c.
42.
Which Union goal was NEVER achieved during the Civil War ?
43.
List the ‘Specific’ dates of the Civil War…
44.
Why did Lincoln handle the slavery issue so cautiously at the beginning of the War ?
45.
Which group would have been MOST likely to disapprove of the Emancipation Proclamation ?
46.
List a ‘civilian’ change in the North during the war.
47.
List the MAJOR result of the Civil War.
48.
In Lincoln’s 2nd term, what was his major goal for all citizens of the US ?
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