Friday, January 17, 2025

Friday

 

 We are going to read pages 221-246 today and tomorrow.

Please answer the following 

1)Bull Run; Antietam; Shiloh; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox Courthouse.

Some people you should know: 

2) Robert E. Lee, Ulyssey's S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Tecumseh Sherman, John Wilkes Booth.

3) Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's 1st and 2nd Inaugural Addresses; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.  




1. Research suggests that the total number of Americans killed in the war could be as high as what? 

2. What is the time period right after the Civil War known as? 

3. Why did Lincoln need to get the 13th Amendment passed before the war ended? 

4. What were Black Codes? 

5. What do you believe is the most important lasting outcome of the Civil War? Why?

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