Assignments: 1/4-1/6

Wednesday, 1/4: the Civil War I; Read pages 434-447.
1. How did each side finance the war? Is there anything problematic with these methods? In what ways were they similar?
2. How did each side raise their armies? Is there anything problematic with these methods? In what ways were they similar?
3. Why did the South need and expect help from Great Britain and France? Why did they fail to gain help?
4. Did Lincoln violate the Constitution to win the war? Was he right to do so?
5. What advantages did each side have at the outbreak of war? Who should have won?
6. What was different about the Civil War? What new technologies were used and what effects did they have on the war?

Thursday, 1/5: Civil War II; Read 448-463.
1. Who had the upper hand in the first two years of the war? Why?
2. Why was the Battle of Antietam important?
3. What were the US policies towards slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation? What did the Proclamation do for slaves? Why did Lincoln choose that moment to change his policies? Were the proclamation and its timing wise?
4. What was life like for African-Americans during the war? What effect did African-Americans have on the war’s outcome?

Friday, 1/6: Civil War III; Read 464-478.
1. What was the turning point of the war? Why do historians consider this to be the turning point?
2. Why was the siege of Vicksburg important?
3. Why was Grant a successful general when so many earlier generals were unsuccessful?
4. What was the effect of Sherman’s “March to the Sea” on the South?
5. Why did Lincoln almost loose the election of 1864? Who opposed him? Why did Lincoln win?
6. How did Grant finally defeat Lee? What was his treatment of Lee and the Confederate soldiers like? Why did he treat his adversaries that way?

Know the significance of the following:
Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Salmon Chase, William Seward, Andrew Johnson, Conscription Act, 20-Negro Law, Trent affair, the Alabama, Laird Rams, Confiscation Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Copperheads, Peace Democrats, New York Draft Riot,Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Anaconda Plan, blockade, border states, Invasion of New Orleans, Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Appomattox Courthouse, USS Monitor, CSS Virginia (Merrimack), Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Admiral David Farragut, John Wilkes Booth, Gettysburg Address