Download Chapter 10 Civil War

Chapter 10 Civil War
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key
Content Term listed below.
Anaconda Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Sherman’s March to the Sea
draft riots
Copperheads
bread riot
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
1. What were the key elements of the Union’s Anaconda Plan?
2. Explain the significance of the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg.
3. What contributions did women make to the war effort? Give three
examples of women who played a role in the war.
4. President Lincoln stated “my paramount object in this struggle is to
save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.” Given this
objective, why did he sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
5. What was the Confederate plan to pay for the war and keep the Southern
economy afloat? Was their plan successful? Why or why not?
6. Justify a position either for or against Lincoln’s suspension of the
constitutional right of habeas corpus.
7. In what ways did African Americans contribute to the Union war effort?
In what ways did they still face racism and hostility?
8. How did the Gettysburg Address expand the purpose of the war, from
the Union perspective?