Tindall And Shi Chapter 16 Study Guide

APUSH
Study Guide
Tindall and Shi Chapter 16: The War of the Union

I. Seminar Questions
A. Why is the Civil War considered to be the first modern war?
B. How did a war preserve the union become a war to end slavery?
C. How did the war affect the economy of the Confederacy?
D. What were the military and political turning points of the war?

II. Vocabulary
1. Fort Sumter 13. Dorothea Dix
2. Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) 14. Morrill Land Grant, 1862
3. Monitor v. Merrimack 15. Habeas Corpus Act, 1863
4. Jefferson Davis 16. Radical Republicans
5. Conscription Act, 1862 and 1863 17. Copperheads
6. New York City Draft Riots 18. Robert E. Lee
7. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Tecumseh Sherman
8. Battle of Shiloh 20. Appomattox
9. George B. McClellan
10. Robert E. Lee
11. Emancipation Proclamation
12. Clara Barton

IV. Short Answer
1. What advantages did the North have over the South?
2. In what ways did Lincoln restrict liberty during the war?
3. What impact did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the course of the war?

B. Documents Take notes on 2 – 3 key points of each document:

1. Lincoln Justifies His Suspension of Habeas Corpus
2. Clement Vallandgham’s Copperhead Dissent
3. Union Soldier’s Opinion of the War
4. Enlisted Man Describes Life in a Confederate Prison Camp