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--John Adams

Friday, February 3, 2023

Week 23. Feb 6-10, 2k23

HW Q’s in your notebook due Monday, Feb. 6. Thanks!

Read pp. 17-21 in the Doc & Watch the flicks that are hyperlinked next to the Q’s to answer the Q’s…
  1. Why was the Emancipation Proclamation both a law that did & did not free slaves in the Southern states? (Emancipation Proclamation Flick!)
  2. Why was Vicksburg, Mississippi such an important city?
  3. What battle was the turning point of the Civil War & why was this the case?What was the phrase in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that changed the entire purpose of the Civil War? (Gettysburg Address flick!)


Study Guide for the Test on Day 3 
  1. What were the details of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?  
  2. Who benefitted more from the Compromise of 1850?
  3. What was the purpose of the Republican Party?
  4. What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin about?
  5. What states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America?  Why is this Union unconstitutional & why did the United States allow it?
  6. What were the four border states & what does it mean to be a border state?
  7. Why was Maryland the most important border state during the war?
  8. What were the advantages & disadvantages going into the war for both Union & Confederacy?
  9. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America? Who was he prior to the war?
  10. What was the deadliest weapon of the Civil War? Why was this the case?
  11. What was daily life like for a soldier during the Civil War?  What did they do more than anything during the war?
  12. What were two problems the nation faced in dealing with death during the Civil War?
  13. How were women likely the most affected people during the Civil War?
  14. What was an ironclad and how did this new technology change world warfare forever?
  15. What made the Battle of Antietam such an important day & what did Matthew Brady do that changed the way people viewed the war?
  16. Why was the Emancipation Proclamation both a law that did & did not free slaves in the Southern states?
  17. Why was Vicksburg, Mississippi such an important city?
  18. What battle was the turning point of the Civil War & why was this the case?
  19. What was the phrase in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that changed the entire purpose of the Civil War?
  20. What was "total warfare" and how did William Tecumseh Sherman change the way warfare was fought?  Why did he take such extreme measures?
  21. What was Andersonville?
  22. What phrase in Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address angered John Wilkes Booth and also lay out as a plan after the Civil war?
  23. What was John Wilkes Booth's plan?  Was he successful?
  24. What were some results of the Civil War?
Day 1 -- The Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg & Sherman's March begins!

Day 2 -- Sherman's March through Georgia and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...The war ends.

Day 3 -- Civil War Test

Day 4 -- Reconstruction reading & writing assignment.  Assignment due Monday!
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