Civil War and Reconstruction Review

Introduction

Major Terms and Concepts to know:

1. what did the Southern economy rely?

2. Popular Sovereignty

3. John Brown (picture we used to show him representing the Civil War)

4. Election of 1860 & specifically the Electoral College votes

5. Strengths of the Confederacy

6. Strengths of the Union

7. Weakness of the Union

8. Weakness of the Confederacy

9. Union battle plan

10. Fort Sumter

11. Antietam & Emancipation Proclamation

12. Battle of Shiloh

13. Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

14. Appomattox Court House

15. Lincoln's evolution of viewing slaves/African Americans.

16. How women contributed to the war; who founded the American Red Cross.

17. What the Emancipation Proclamation did.

18. New York Draft Riots significance 

19. How medicine changed during the war.

20. Lincoln's assassination

21. How African Americans contributed.

22. Why the south seceded from the Union.