US History Ch. 11 Study Guide
Civil War
Directions: Be able to define and explain each of the following
-Anaconda Plan-Emancipation Proclamation
-Militia Act
-54th Mass. Regiment
-Homestead Act
-conscription / -Copperhead
-total war
-13th Amendment
-Land Grant College Act
-Clara Barton
-Legal Tender Act 1862 / -Stonewall Jackson
-George B. McClellan
-Ulysses S. Grant
-Robert E. Lee
-William T. Sherman
1. Know where these battles were fought, who the generals were, who was the victor, and why it was significant.
-Shiloh, 1st and 2nd Bull Run, Seven Days, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg, New Orleans
2. Who were the Border States and why were they important?
3. What was the reasoning and affects of Lincoln suspending habeas corpus?
4. How did the Union name battles and how did the Confederacy name battles?
5. What were the advantages and disadvantages of each side at the beginning of the war?
6. What were the North’s and South’s economies based on and what were their fighting strategies?
7. Why did Lincoln feel like he needed to address the issue of slavery in the South?
8. How did both sides try to win over foreign countries and why?
9. How did women get involved at home and on the front lines?
10. What happened to both sides economy during the war?
11. How did the Civil War affect states’ rights?
12. What risk was there if you only had a minor wound from battle?
13. After 1863, what did General Grant want to do even if it meant thousands of Union soldiers were killed?
14. Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
15. What happened to most of the African Americans, that were living in the South, after the Civil War?
16. Which side had a more difficult time rebuilding after the Civil War?
17. Why did the Confederates lose at Petersburg?
18. What did Lincoln need before releasing the Emancipation, why’d he do it, and why was he criticized for it?
19. How did Africans Americans help the Union in the South?
20. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army did what concerning African Americans?