Final Civil War Study Guide, 2013

Final 2013 study guide; Civil War; Birzer

N.B. The final is worth 40% of your course grade.  To earn anything above a “C”, you must employ—to a significant extent—the readings you were assigned.

Section I: Essay.  One of these will appear on the final.  Worth 30% of your final.

1.  Consider Lincoln’s relationships with other politicians, cabinet members, generals, and the America people.  What kind of president and person was he?

2.  Explain the evolution of northern war aims, strategies, and tactics, 1861-1865.

3.  Explain both Union and Confederate motivations/justifications for beginning as well as continuing the war, 1861-1865.  Be sure to include the views of the leaders, the average soldiers, and the general public of each section.

4.  Explain the evolution of Lincoln’s thought/understanding regarding secession and the purpose of the war, 1861-1865.

5.  Explain the role of the Yankee Leviathan and Confederate War Socialism in the waging of the CIvil War (should include "Total War.")

Section II: I.D.s/Definitions;. Definitions will be worth ten points each.  Four total; worth 40% of your final.

13^th Amendment

14^th Amendment

15^th Amendment

54^th Massachusetts

American System

Ambrose Burnside

Anaconda Plan

Antietam

Bleeding Kansas

Compromise of 1850

copperheads

“Cotton is King”

Eastern Theater

Emancipation Proclamation

Exodusters

Field Order #120

First Bull Run

Fort Sumter

Fredericksburg

G.B. McClellan

George Meade

Gettysburg

Henry Clay

Homesteading Act

James Buchanan

James Longstreet

Jefferson Davis

John C. Calhoun

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

Joshua Chamberlain

KKK
Knights of the Golden Circle

Manifest Destiny

Meditation on the Divine Will

Missouri Compromise

New York Draft Riots

Peninsular Campaign

Petersburg Siege

Popular sovereignty

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Radical Republicans

River Queen Doctrine

Robert Anderson

Robert E. Lee

Secret Six

Shiloh

Special Field Order #15

Springfield Rifle

Stonewall Jackson

Total War

Trans-Mississippi Theater

U.S. Grant

Vicksburg

Wade-Davis Bill

Western Theater

Wilderness Campaign

Wilmot Proviso

William H. L. Wallace

William Seward

William T. Sherman

Western Theater

Yankee Leviathan

Section III: Short answers.  Worth 30% of your final grade.