AP USH STUDY QUESTIONS
CH. 21: THE FURNACE OF CIVIL WAR
Name_____________________
Read this chapter and answer the following:
Bull Run Ends the "Ninety Day War
1.
Identify Stonewall Jackson.
2.
What was the Union goal at the beginning of the war?
3.
Describe the Battle of Bull Run.
4.
What effect did it have on both the North and South?
"Tardy George" McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign
5.
Identify:
George McClellan
Peninsula Campaign
Robert E. Lee,
"Jeb" Stuart
Seven Days' Battles
Anaconda Plan
6.
Explain the ironies of General Lee’s triumph.
7.
Describe the grand strategy of the North for winning the war. (6-part plan)
The War at Sea
8.
Define/Identify:
Blockade
Merrimac & Monitor
9.
What was questionable about the blockade practices of the North? Why did Britain
honor the blockade anyway?
The Pivotal Point: Antietam
10.
Why did General Lee decide to invade the North?
11.
Who was restored to Union command? What stroke of luck did the Union forces
have with regard to this battle?
12.
Describe the Battle of Antietam.
13.
What was the significant effect of this battle?
A Proclamation Without Emancipation
14.
Exactly what did the Emancipation Proclamation provide?
15.
Describe the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation.
16.
Describe the reactions of the following to the Emancipation Proclamation:
a)
Horace Greeley
b)
Northerners in the Butternut region
c)
Other Northerners, including the “Boys in Blue”
d)
the South
Blacks Battle Bondage
17.
Identify:
Frederick Douglass
54th Massachusetts
Fort Pillow
18.
Describe the Union’s reasoning for non-acceptance and then later acceptance of black
enlistees. How important a factor were blacks in helping the North win the Civil War?
Lee's Last Lunge at Gettysburg
19.
Identify:
Ambrose Burnside
Joe Hooker
George Meade
Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge
Gettysburg Address
20.
Briefly describe Lee’s victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and the effect
these victories had for Lee’s war strategy.
21.
What were Lee’s goals with regard to Gettysburg?
22.
Briefly describe the 3 days of the Battle of Gettysburg.
23.
WHY was Gettysburg the turning point in the war?
The War in the West
24.
Identify and describe the significance of:
Ulysses S. Grant
Fort Henry & Fort Donnelson
Shiloh
David Farragut
Vicksburg
25.
Describe General Grant as a man and a general.
26.
Explain the significance of the Union’s dual victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg on
July 4, 1863.
Sherman Scorches Georgia
27.
Identify:
William T. Sherman
March to the Sea
28.
How did Sherman attempt to demoralize the South – how did he “make Georgia howl?”
The Politics of War
29.
Identify:
War Democrats & Peace Democrats
Copperheads
Clement L. Vallandingham
30.
Describe Lincoln’s political difficulties during the war.
The Election of 1864
31.
Identify the roles of each in this election:
Andrew Johnson
George McClellan
32.
Why was Lincoln’s reelection in doubt?
33.
What factors contributed to Lincoln's electoral victory?
Grant Outlasts Lee
34.
Identify/describe:
Grant’s Wilderness Campaign
Battle of Cold Harbor
35.
What was ironic about Grant’s reputation as “the Butcher?”
36.
What strategy did Grant use to defeat Lee's army?
37.
Describe the end of the war – Richmond, Appomattox Courthouse.
The Martyrdom of Lincoln
38.
Describe the Lincoln assassination.
39.
Lincoln’s death was the worst possible thing that could have happened to the South. Assess the
validity of this statement.
The Aftermath of the Nightmare
40.
What was the legacy of the Civil War?