American Pageant Chapter 21 p. 453 – 477
1. What were Lincoln’s expectations when he called for troops?
Bull Run Ends the “Ninety-Day War”
2. What was the goal of the attack on the Confederate forces at Bull Run?
3. Which confederate general received his nickname there?
4. How did the Southern victory actually harm the South in the long run?
“Tardy George” McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign
5. Why did McClellan earn the nickname “Tardy George?”
6. Was the Peninsula Campaign a success for McClellan?
7. By winning in the Seven Days Battles, what did Lee ensure?
8. Why did Lincoln begin to contemplate emancipation of the South’s slaves after the Seven Days Battles?
9. Describe the six components of the Union strategy?
The War at Sea
10. Where did the North concentrate its blockades?
11. Why did Britain recognize the blockade?
12. What were the Merrimack and the Monitor?
13. Describe the Merrimack versus the Monitor battle.
The Pivotal Point: Antietam
14. What was the outcome of the Second Battle of Bull Run?
15. What was Lee’s goal when he thrust into Maryland?
16. Why were Marylanders less than eager to join the confederacy once they had seen them?
17. Who did Lincoln return to command at Antietam?
18. What strike of luck helped McClellan succeed at Antietam?
19. Why did Lincoln finally relieve McClellan of his command after Antietam?
20. Why was Antietam considered to be so decisive in diplomatic terms?
21. What did the victory give Lincoln the opportunity to do?
22. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the Civil War?
A Proclamation without Emancipation
23. Where did the Proclamation actually free the slaves?
24. Were the slaves in the Border States freed?
25. Did the Emancipation Proclamation actually free any slaves?
26. Why were the Border States excluded?
27. How many slaves ran away to the Union Army camps?
28. What did the Emancipation Proclamation strengthen?
29. In fact, what legally ended slavery?
30. How did the Proclamation affect the possibility of a negotiated settlement?
31. What was the fear of the Butternuts(as expressed in the Cincinnati Enquirer?)
32. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the pressure the British working classes put on their government?
Blacks Battle Bondage
33. How did the Emancipation Proclamation also help to solve a manpower problem in the North?
34. What % of the North’s total enlisted force was African American?
35. What black regiment from Boston distinguished itself at Fort Wagner?
36. Were black soldiers treated the same as white P.O.W.’s when captured?
37. What kinds of labor had the slaves been forced to supply for the Confederacy?
38. How did the reliance on slave labor handicap the South’s war effort?
Lees’ Last Lunge at Gettysburg
39. What did Burnside and Hooker prove about the abilities of Union military leadership?
40. Who did Lee lose at Chancellorsville?
41. What was Lee hoping to accomplish at Gettysburg?
42. Why can Gettysburg be called a turning point of the Civil War?
43. How did the loss at Gettysburg dash the Southern hopes for a negotiated peace?
44. Why was the Gettysburg Address dismissed at the time?
The War in the West
45. What features of his background made Grant an unlikely success story?
46. What did Grant demand at Fort Donelson?
47. What river was almost under Union control after Farragut seized New Orleans?
48. Why would Vicksburg also be considered a turning point in the Civil War?
Sherman Scorches Georgia
49. Once the western theater was under Union control, what was Lincoln able to do with Grant?
50. What did Sherman do in Atlanta?
51. What was the main purpose of Sherman’s “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah?
52. Why was the destruction (total war) even worse in South Carolina?
The Politics of War
53. Which member of Lincoln’s own cabinet formed a faction against him?
54. What two issues did the radicals disagree with Lincoln about?
55. What actions did the Copperheads take to subvert the war effort?
56. In which region were the Copperheads strongest?
57. How did Lincoln deal with Clement Vallandigham?
The Election of 1864
58. Why was the Union Party formed for the Election of 1864?
59. Why was Andrew Johnson put on the ticket as VP with Lincoln?
60. Who ran against Lincoln as the Democratic candidate?
61. List the string of Union victories that helped secure Lincoln’s re-election.
62. How did Lincoln’s victory affect southern morale?
Grant Outlasts Lee
63. How did Grant’s military style differ from McClellan’s?
64. Who actually lost a greater % of his men in battle, Lee or Grant?
65. What were the terms of peace the South hoped to obtain?
66. What were Lincoln’s two non-negotiable terms?
67. Which city did Northern troops finally capture in April 1865?
68. Where did Lee surrender to Grant in April 1865?
69. What concession did Grant allow Lee’s men?
The Martyrdom of Lincoln
70. Who was John Wilkes Booth?
71. Why did Southern elation over Lincoln’s death begin to fade?
72. What rumors began to circulate in the North and how did these affect the treatment of the defeated South?
The Aftermath of the Nightmare
73. What did the war do the extreme states’ rights position?
74. How did the American Civil War affect British political history?