Chapter 14. Civil War 

This unit covers the strategies, fighting and policies of war.  The North and South approached the Civil War in different ways and with different assumptions that greatly affected the outcome of the war.  The Emancipation Proclamation will be studied as a reform measure, as well as a diplomatic strategy.

The specific focus of this unit will be on:

A. Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent

B. Military strategies and foreign diplomacy

C. Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war

D. Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West

 

Reading Assignments:

Textbook Chapters:

Ch. 14 Brinkley textbook.pdf  

Secession Documents

Lincoln inaugural addresses

 

Facing History Assignment Due February 3rd or 4th

 

 

Class Notes:  

Civil War class notes.pdf

 

 

 

Homework Assignments: 

Printable copy of homework:

C14 Homework.pdf

 

Part 1 - Ideas/themes to know and include in your notes: 

Crittenden Compromise

Fort Sumter

National Banking Acts and Greenbacks

NY Draft Riots

Suspension of Habeas corpus

1864 election

Emancipation Proclamation

Enlistment of black soldiers

U.S. Sanitary Commission

Confederate States’ Rights cult

Confederate draft

Lincoln’s military leadership

Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee

Trent affair

Gen’l George McClellan

Battle of Antietam

Vicksburg

Gettysburg

Grant’s 1864 Strategy

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Appomattox Courthouse 

 

Part 2 - Short Answer Question: Answer all parts of the question in full. 3/4ths page minimum response. 

Analyze ONE goal of the Civil War for either the Union or the Confederacy, explaining its significance in the context of sectionalism. Did they achieve that goal? Provide evidence to support your assertion.

 

 

Part 3 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter, class readings, or discussion and will be used in context or need to be defined on the weekly chapter quiz.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/   

• Blithe
• Carnage
• Conscription
• Epochal
• Habeas corpus
• Impotent
• Incongruous
• Insurrection
• Ironclad
• Irreconcilable
• Irrepressible
• Placate
• Proponent
• Punctilious
• Recalcitrant
• Requisition 
• Swath
• Unilateral

 

Definitions: Fill in the correct word that matches the definition listed. 

1.___________________(n.) the right of a citizen to protection against illegal imprisonment

3.___________________(n.) an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

4.___________________(adj.) impossible to restrain or control

5.___________________(n.) great and usually bloody slaughter or injury (as in battle)

6.___________________(adj.) uniquely or highly significant: momentous

7.___________________(n.) compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service

8.___________________(adj.) lacking due thought or consideration, casually cheerful

9.___________________(adj.) obstinately defiant of authority or restraint

10.__________________(n.) a space devastated as if by a scythe; mown down

11.__________________(adj.) so firm or secure as to be unbreakable OR (n.) a heavily armored naval vessel

12.__________________(n.) the act of requiring something to be furnished

13.__________________(adj.) impossible to settle differences or compromise

14.__________________(v.) to soothe or mollify especially by concessions

15.__________________(n.) a person who argues in favor of something

16.__________________(adj.) having only one side; unanimous

17.__________________(adj.) lacking in power, strength, or vigor

18.__________________(adj.) concerned about precise obedience to rules, laws, or social conventions

 

Completing the Sentence: Choose the word from the word bank above that best completes each of the following sentences. Write the correct word or form of the word in the space provided.

19. In the 1920s, the idea of the Civil War as an ________________________ economic, rather than moral, conflict became much more prominent; many ________________________ of this idea supported the sectionalist argument over any other. 

20. Abraham Lincoln’s ________________________ Emancipation Proclamation and, later, the Thirteenth Amendment fundamentally changed the lives of black Americans during and after the war.

21. He ordered military arrests of civilian dissenters and suspended the right of ________________________ (the right of an arrested person to a speedy trial).

22. ________________________ ships such as the Merrimac (or Virginia ) and the Monitor, torpedoes, and submarine technology all suggested the dramatic changes that would soon overtake naval warfare, although none played a major role in the Civil War.

23. Living off the land, destroying supplies it could not use, his army cut a sixty-mile-wide ________________________ of desolation across Georgia.

24. Without waiting for congressional approval, Lincoln ________________________ proclaimed a naval blockade of the South.

25. Four long years of bloody combat produced more ________________________ than any war in American history, before or since.

26. Conservative Republicans favored a more cautious draft policy; in part to ________________________ the slave states that remained within the Union.

27. Unlike Lincoln, Davis was careful and ________________________ about legal and constitutional requirements.

28. The Confederate congress tried at first to ________________________ funds form the individual states; but the states were reluctant to directly tax. 

29. Congress and the president were insistent that the conflict was simply a domestic ________________________, not a war between two legitimate governments.

30. The national government was not ________________________, it permitted soldiers to seize food and goods as needed through a “food draft”.

31. In a frantic final attempt to raise men, the Confederation congress authorized the ________________________ of 300,000 slaves, but the war ended before the government could attempt this ________________________ experiment.

32. By 1860 the North and South had reached positions on the issue of slavery that were both ________________________ and unalterable, the conflict had become “inevitable” and “irrepressible”.

33. ________________________ governors such as Joseph Brown of Georgia tried at times to keep their own troops apart from the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for their own states’ militias.

34. Rosetta enlisted as “Edwin” and fought for the Union army, showing ________________________ acceptance of the wartime perils of the battlefield.

 

 

 

 

Resources: 

Best Facial Hair in the Civil War     http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Who-Had-the-Best-Civil-War-Facial-Hair.html

Letters from the Civil War          http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/gettysburg/index.html

Greg Feldmeth's Civil War outline and Civil War Events Chart 

The Smithsonian Institute's Online Exhibit about the Civil War          http://civilwar.si.edu/collections.html

The National Archives Online Exhibit          http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/civil-war/preview/prologue/