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CIVIL WAR STUDY GUIDE

CIVIL WAR STUDY LIST 1. Causes of the Civil War Chart 7. Chapter 16, Part III 2. Chapter 16 Identification Chart 8. Emancipation Proclamation Article 3. Chapter 16, Part I 9. Chapter 16, Part IV 4. Chapter 16, Part II 10. Gettysburg Address ACAPS 5. Advances in Technology Notes 11. All pop quizzes 6. Civil War Battles Chart (ten battles) 12. Chapter 16, Section 1 Notes 7. Civil War Packet (C or U) 13. All Battles sheets 8. Abbreviations sheet 14. All Quizzes 15. Study Guide

STUDY GUIDE

KEY PEOPLE KEY BATTLES 1. Abraham Lincoln 1. First Battle of Bull Run 2. Winfield Scott 2. Battle of Pea Ridge 3. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson 3. Battle of Shiloh 4. George B. McClellan 4. Seven Days Battle 5. Robert E. Lee 5. Second Battle of Bull Run 6. Ulysses S. Grant 6. Battle of Antietam 7. Clara Barton 7. Battle of Vicksburg 8. William Tecumseh Sherman 8. Battle of Gettysburg 9. Jefferson Davis 9. Wilderness Campaign 10. Sherman’s Campaign

KEY IDEAS 1. Identify the social, economic, and political causes of the Civil War. 2. Identify the order of secession of southern states and the border states that remain with the Union. 3. Describe the importance of the Battle of Fort Sumter. 4. Describe the Union and Confederate advantages. 5. What is Cotton Diplomacy? 6. Describe the Union’s focus on controlling the Mississippi River and what they hoped to accomplish with this strategy. 7. Why did people in the North want to free the slaves? 8. What were Lincoln’s main concerns about emancipation? 9. Describe the Emancipation Proclamation and what Lincoln hoped to do with this proclamation. 10. Why were northern democrats and abolitionists unhappy with the Emancipation Proclamation? 11. What are contrabands? 12. Who were the 54th Massachusetts Infantry? 13. Who were Copperheads? 14. What did Lincoln do to combat the Copperheads? 15. What blockade strategy did the Union use against the Confederacy? 16. What was the Gettysburg Address and what was its purpose? 17. What did Lincoln want General Sherman to do to help secure his re-election in 1864? Why? 18. Describe Sherman’s march to the sea. 19. What is total war? What did Sherman order his troops to do in order to carry out total war? 20. What happened at Appomattox Courthouse? Why? 21. How many people lost their lives in the four years of fighting in the Civil War?