Chapter 14: America at War Against Herself

1861 - 1865

Reading:

Friday: p.446 – 452

Monday: p.452 – 462 (458, 459, 461)
Tuesday: p.462 – 466
Wednesday: p.466 – 475 (472, 473)
Thursday: Finish any incomplete reading
Thursday: Ch. 16 Quiz

Due:
All assignments associated with this chapter and packets are due on Friday November 11th,

 Chapter Summary
 Terms
 Packet

Create Note Cards for the following People, Terms, Events, etc.:

Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina Secession
Fort Sumter
Anaconda Plan
Border States
Battle of Bull Run
Ironclads
Gen. George McClellan
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Shilo
Gen. Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedmen
Homestead Act of 1862
Clara Barton
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Thirteenth Amendment
Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth
Reading Questions:

p.446 – 452

1. How important was the conflict at Fort Sumter, and would the Confederacy — or the Union
— have gone to war without it?

2. In 1861 and 1862, what were the political and military strategies of the Confederate and
Union leaders? Which side was the more successful and why?

p.452 – 462

3. How did the Union and Confederacy mobilize their populations for war, and how effective
were these methods?
 4. How did the economic policies of the Republican-controlled Congress redefine the character
of the federal government?

p.462 – 466

5. Some historians argue that slaves “freed themselves” by fleeing to Union armies, thereby
forcing Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. How persuasive is that argument?

6. How did the battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg significantly change the tide of war?
p.466 – 475

7. How did the Emancipation Proclamation and Grant’s appointment as general in chief affect
the course of the war?

8. To what extent were Grant and Sherman’s military strategy and tactics responsible for defeat
of the Confederacy?
From Lecture:

9. Describe the advantages of the Union and the advantages enjoyed by the Confederacy

Union Confederacy

10. Explain the leadership crisis experienced in the North.

11. How does the Union take advantage of the navigable rivers?
12. List and explain at least five things which contributed to a Union victory.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.
 Terms, People, Events, & Concepts
Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln

South Carolina
Secession

Fort Sumter

Anaconda Plan

Border States

Battle of Bull Run

Iron Clads (Battle of

Hampton Roads)
Gen. George
McClellan

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Shilo

Gen. Robert E. Lee

William Tecumseh
Sherman

Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson

Antietam

Emancipation
Proclamation
Freedmen

Homestead Act of
1862

Clara Barton

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Thirteenth
Amendment

Appomattox

John Wilkes Booth