Civil War

1) In an essay discuss why the Civil War is considered "The Cross Roads of Our [United States] being".
2) Discuss Racism in the North - how did it look, give some examples.
3) What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment?
4) How was the 14th Amendment reinterpreted? How was the 15th Amendment interrupted?
5) List ways a slave rebelled.
6) Zinn tries to show slavery from a slaves perspective, what are three things he says?
7) After the Civil War how did the South prevent former slaves from attaining power?
8) Why didn't former slaves more after the Civil War?
9) Name two slave uprisings.
10) How many people died in the Civil War?
11) Give the dates of the war.

Battles:
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Antietam
Shiloh
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Sherman’s March to the Sea

People:
Albert Sidney Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Johnson
Joe Hooker
Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E Lee
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
A.P. Hill
James Longstreet
Booker T Washington
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas

Quiz?

CIVIL WAR:

How did the Civil War shape our lives today?

Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.

What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?

List the four border states.

Why did West Virginia form?

What disadvantages did the South fact?

Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?

What were the three main strategies of the Union?

What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?

What was the outcome of Bull Run?

Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.

What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?

What did the 13th Amendment do?

How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?

Discuss the draft laws in the north.

Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?

Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?

What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?