Ch 16 Study Guide Total War and the Republic

16 CH 16 STUDY GUIDE TOTAL WAR AND THE REPUBLIC

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS 1. First battle of Manassas (Bull Run) & total war 2. Factors favoring Although at the outset the South vs the North in the Civil War 3. Technology & terrain and distance 4. Jefferson Davis & Confederate centralized authority 5. The Confederacy & the North: similarities 6. The Confederacy & the North: dissimilarities 7. General Winfield Scott’s “anaconda plan” 8. First Union success of the war 9. Southern dissidents & new border states 10. The role of cotton in the Confederacy 11. The first Union military victory 12. The battle at Antietam Creek 13. The abolition of slavery & the border states & necessary military measures 14. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation 15. African Americans during the Civil War 16. Women both North and South & the war efforts 17. Confederacy rampant inflation 18. Rioting in the South and North 19. North monetry sources of support 20. The Republican Congress during the Civil War & the spirit of Henry Clay 21. Jobs women began to do in the Civil War 22. Lincoln & the civil liberties of Northerners 23. Civil War soldiering 24. The Civil War as a “total war” 25. The military & political significance of the battles of Antietam, Vicksburg & Gettysburg 26. The Union victory at Vicksburg & the Mississippi 27. Lincoln’s re-election in 1864 28. Lincoln’s “general.” & the tactics of total and relentless war 29. The theory of the “war in the balance & the Election of 1864” 30. The impact of the Civil War COMPLETION 1. The President who had served previously as Secretary of War was [ ]. 2. One of the key border states that remained within the Union despite significant support for the Confederacy was [ ]. 3. [ ] was the celebrated Virginian who led the Army of Northern Virginia so well for so long, but who finally had to surrender to Grant. 4. Issued as a military measure against the South and thus applicable only in areas still in rebellion, Lincoln’s [ ] redefined the war as a struggle to create a new nation. Chapter 16: Total War and the Republic 5. To obtain sufficient manpower for their armies, both North and South not only called for volunteers but also instituted, for the first time in U.S. history, the controversial device of [ ]. 6. One component of the Republican economic legislation passed during the war was the [ ], which provided 160 acres of public land to settlers who would farm for five years. 7. Republicans gave the scornful nickname of [ ] to Northerners who opposed the war effort. 8. Slaves in the border states and other areas not controlled by the Confederacy were freed by [ ]. 9. The southern will to resist rapidly crumbled after [ ]. 10. The tragic war ended with one more tragedy just days after the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, when John Wilkes Booth shot and killed [ ]. IDENTIFICATION Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places, and explain their significance: Terms and Concepts Anaconda plan march to the sea writ of habeas corpus Conscription Copperhead Emancipation Proclamation Thirteenth Amendment Radical Republicans First Confiscation Act Second Confiscation Act border states King Cotton diplomacy Crittenden Resolution Contraband Ex parse Milligan Individuals and Places Bull Run Chancellorsville Gettysburg Vicksburg Antietam Shiloh Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee William Tecumseh Sherman George McClellan Alexander H. Stephens Joseph Johnston Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson West Virginia Appomattox David Farragut Clement Vallandigham MAP IDENTIFICATIONS Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map below, label or shade in the following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter. 1. Shiloh 2. New Orleans 3. Vicksburg 4. Mobile

141 Chapter 16: Total War and the Republic 5. Atlanta 6. Savannah 7. Sherman’s march to the sea 8. Charleston 9. Gettysburg 10. Bull Run 11. Antietam 12. Richmond 13. Washington. D.C.