Pages 436-443
Brothers’ Blood and Border War
The Balance of Forces
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
Q:
1. Describe the importance of the border states. Include population,
economics, geography as well as Lincoln’s actions to insure the border states
continued allegiance to the Union.
2. Describe the Civil War as a war between the Confederacy and the Union as
well as a civil war within some states, territories, and families. Include
border states, Indian territory, and split families.
3. Summarize Billy Yank and Johnny Reb. Include statistics, similarities,
differences, camp life, diseases, and combat conditions.
4. In a chart format, describe the advantages of the Confederacy and Union.
Include strategy, motivation, military leaders, average soldiers, economic
factors, population, and naval strengths.
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Butternut region
Cherokee
Billy Yank
Johnny Reb
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Rebel yell
Pages 447-449
Volunteers and Draftees: North and South
Pages 453-457
Bull Run Ends the “Ninety Day War”
Tardy George McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign
Q:
1. In a chart format, describe the recruitment of soldiers for both the USA and
CSA. Include volunteers, draft, exemptions from draft, reactions to draft,
and bounties.
2. Describe Bull Run. Include purpose, military leaders, results, and
consequences.
3. Describe Peninsula Campaign. Include purpose, military leaders, battle
details, results, and consequences.
4. Describe the Union’s total war strategy.
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Three hundred dollar men
Bounty brokers
Bounty jumpers
Rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight
Stonewall Jackson
George B. McClellan
Jeb Stuart
Seven Days Battle
Army of the Potomac
Q:
5. Describe the war at sea. Include the blockade, foreign response to the
blockade, blockade running, and the ironclads.
6. Describe Antietam. Include purpose, military leaders, results, and
consequences.
IDs:
1. Merrimack
2. Virginia
3. Monitor
4. Robert E. Lee