Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Thursday

 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. What did Lincoln see as being the only way to make sure slavery was abolished forever? 

2. What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

3. What did the 14th Amendment establish?

4. How did many southern states attempt to get around the 15th Amendment? 

5. Why do you believe the 14th Amendment did not extend rights to all people and why did it take so long to correct errors of the 15th Amendment?

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