Chapter 15-The Civil War TEST

Test will be on Tuesday, May 6, 2014

People
Abraham Lincoln

Robert E. Lee

George McClellan

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Thomas Jackson
Clara Barton

Ulysses S. Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman

Main Ideas
What was Abraham Lincolns one main goal at the start of the Civil War?
What advantages did the North have over the South?
What advantages did the South have over the North?
What did the North and South realize in the aftermath of the Battle of Bull Run?
When and where did the Battle of Shiloh take place?
Which one day battle had 23,000 casualties and led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Why did Lincoln wait until after the battle at Antietam to issue the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Why did the Emancipation Proclamation have little immediate effect on slavery?
What southern area(s) would most likely have supported the Civil War?
How were African American soldiers treated during the Civil War? What side did they fight
for?
What new opportunity became available to women women during the Civil War?
Which side instituted military drafts? Which side faced the biggest economic challenges?
What made 1863 a major turning point in the Civil War?
How many casualties did the Battle of Gettysburg have?
When did Robert E. Lee surrender? You need to month, day, and year.
How many Americans died in the Civil War?
What were the major results of the Civil War?

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We here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
Franks !1