CHAPTER 16 SECTION 1 NAME:

Civil War Reading Essentials DATE: Civil War: The Two Sides PERIOD:

Essential Question

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South? Directions: As you read, complete the diagram.

Strategies for Victory for the North and the South (War Plans)

North

South

Goals and Strategies (page 475-477)

Explain

Why were the border states Important to both the North and the South?

The Border States

Comparing North and South

War Aims

Confederate Strategies

Union Strategies

Americans Against Americans (page 477-479)

False Hopes

Who Were the Soldiers

The Life of a Soldier

The Reality of War

Section Wrap-Up

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South?

CHAPTER 16 SECTION 2

Reading Essentials Civil War: Early Stages of the War

Why did neither the Union nor the Confederacy gain a strong advantage during the early years of the war? Directions: As you read, complete the diagram.

War on Land and Sea (page 481-484)

Cause and Effect

Why did Union Forces attack Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?

First Battle of Bull Run

War in the West

War of the Ironclads

3 Major Battles in each Section of the Country and Who Won each Battle?

West 1 2 3

East 1 2 3

The Battle of Shiloh

New Orleans Falls

War in the East (page 484-486)

Identifying

Which side won more battles in the east?

Victories for the Confederacy

Invasion of the North

Battle of Antietam

The Emancipation Proclamation (page 486-487)

Describing

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

The Debate

Lincoln Decides

Effects of the Proclamation

What technological advances were made during the early years of the war that had an impact on how the war was fought?

CHAPTER 16 SECTION 3

Reading Essentials Civil War: Life During the War

Essential Question

What social, political, and economic changes resulted from the war?

Different Way of Life (page 491)

Life at Home

Shortages in the South

New Roles for Women (page 492-493)

Listing

List three new roles that women filled during the war. 1. 2. 3.

Treatment of Sick and Wounded

Spies

Prison Camps and Field Hospitals (page 493-494)

In the Hands of the Enemy

Field Hospitals

Political and Economic Change (page 494-497)

In the North

In the South

Draft Laws

Economic Effects

What ideas in society changed/advanced as a result of the Civil War? (I.e. role of women) What political and economic changes resulted from the war? Political- Economic-

CHAPTER 16 SECTION 4

Reading Essentials Civil War: The Strain of War

Essential Question

How did the events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg change the course of the War?

Southern Victories (page 499-500)

Explain

What was Lee’s strategy at the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Battle of Fredricksburg (2 bullets)

Battle of Chancellorsville (2 bullets)

Weak Union Generals (2 bullets)

African Americans in the War (page 501)

In the South

In the North

The 54th Massachusetts

The Tide of War Turns (page 502-505)

Battle of Gettysburg

The Vicksburg Siege

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

How did the events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg change the course of the War?

CHAPTER 16 SECTION 5

Reading Essentials Civil War: The War’s Final Stages

Essential Question

What events led to the end of the war?

Total War Strikes the South (page 507-509)

Union Strategy (2 bullets)

Grant in Charge (2 bullets)

Sherman in Georgia

The Election of 1864

The War’s End (page 510-512)

Sherman’s March to the Sea

The Fall of Richmond

Surrender at Appomattox

The Toll of War (4 bullets)

What events led to the end of the war? Explain.