Do Now What things do you think finally pushed the United States into civil war?

Essential Questions (Q1) What was the physical and political condition of the North/South at the beginning of the war? (Q2) What was the affect of technology and the early course of the war in the east/west? (Q3) What was the Emancipation Proclamation and its impact on the United States? (Q4) What was the impact of the war on the United States? (Q5) What was the outcome and impact of major battles?

Exit Ticket What changes would you have done to the war if you could have?

Test Day Sit Down quietly Open your binder Review your study guide No talking

Focus Question: Why does the Union fight?

15 The Civil War

Question 1 A word that means to free African-Slaves is… (pg 524) emancipate

Question 2 Lincoln did not free slaves at the beginning of the war because he was afraid that… (pg 524) border states would secede

Question 3 Lincoln’s main goal in the Civil War was to… (pg 524) restore the Union

Question 4 Union soldiers supported the Emancipation Proclamation because… (pg 525) it weakened the South

Question 5 The Emancipation Proclamation turned the Civil War into a… (pg 525) struggle for freedom

Question 6 One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it kept… (pg 526) Britain from recognizing the independence of the South

Question 7 More than half of the African-American volunteers serving in the Union army were… (pg 526) former slaves

Question 8 The Union army suffered 13,000 casualties under General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of… (pg 533) Fredericksburg

Question 9 Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was fatally shot at the Battle of… (pg 533) Chancellorsville

Question 10 The battle that forced General Lee and the Confederate forces out of the North for good was the Battle of… (pg 535) Gettysburg

Question 11 To capture a place by surrounding it and cutting it off from supplies until the people inside surrender is called… (pg 535) a siege

Question 12 All-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy’s army, its resources, and its people’s will to fight is called… (pg 536) total war

Question 13 Which Union general used total war tactics, and burned Atlanta to the ground? (pg 536) Sherman

Question 14 The Union general who defeated General Lee at Vicksburg and Richmond and forced the final surrender of Confederate forces, ending the war, was… (pg 537) Grant

Question 15 The final surrender of Confederate forces was signed at… (pg 537) Appomattox Court House

Question 16 A RAFT exercise. You are either a Union soldier or a Confederate soldier. You are writing a letter home at the end of the war. Explain, in the letter, to whomever you are writing, your feelings about the war and whether or not you think the war was worth fighting.

Question 17 Read the following passage, then, on a separate sheet of paper, in paragraph form, using the RACES strategy, explain what Lincoln was saying about the soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Cite evidence from the passage to support your answer. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”