Lesson 1 "The North Tries to Compromise"

Turn to Page 300 analyze the timeline at the bottom of the page and read the introduction to the chapter.

Scan Pages 301-303; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 301-303 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 301-303.

Read Pages 301-303 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 303? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "The North Tries to Compromise" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

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Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Request - the act of asking for something.

Civil War - a war between groups within the same country.

Section Review Answers

1. President Buchanan thought the southern states would rejoin the Union if the North returned all runaway enslaved people.
2. Fort Sumter was commanded by Robert Anderson.
3. A compromise that would have allowed slavery in new territories was proposed by John Crittenden.
4. The Confederacy chose Jefferson Davis as its President.
5. The first challenge facing Abraham Lincoln was to get the Union back together.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to identify a compromise suggested to avoid war?

Can you list some of the actions the seceded states took?

Can you discuss Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union?

Lesson 2 "Confederates Attack Fort Sumter"

Scan Pages 304-306; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

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Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 304-306.

Read Pages 304-306 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 306? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "Confederates Attack Fort Sumter" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

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Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Defense - protection against attack.

Section Review Answers

1. The attack on Fort Sumter was the start of the Civil War.
2. After the attack on Fort Sumter, Richmond, Virginia, became the new Confederate capital and the Confederate army formed there.
3. Accept any two: the North had a larger population that the South, it had most of the country's factories and industrial labor force, and it had more money to pay for a war.
4. Accept any two: the South was united against those who wanted to destroy their way of life; they had some excellent military leaders; southerners were more familiar than northerners with firearms, the outdoors, and horses; and the fighting broke out on southern soil.
5. The North formed a blockade to prevent foreign supplies from reaching southern ports. The North hoped to shut the South down.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to explain what happened at Fort Sumter?

Can you identify advantages the North and South had?

Can you describe how each side planned to fight the war?

Lesson 3 "The Civil War Begins"

Scan Pages 307-311; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

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Read Pages 307-311 (take notes of important ideas)

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Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Gunboat - an armed ship used for battle.

Ironclad - a military ship covered in iron plates.

Veteran - an experienced or former member of the armed forces.

Outnumber - to have more people than an opponent in a battle

Section Review Answers

1. The Confederate army defeated the Union army in the second battle of Bull Run at Manassas.
2. General Grant captured Fort Henry.
3. The Confederates destroyed the Merrimac.
4. The Union retreated after the Seven Days Battles and the Confederates were victorious.
5. General Lee and the Confederate army attacked Maryland.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you identify what happened at the battles fought during the early part of the war?

Are you able to identify some of the military leaders on both sides of the war?

Lesson 4 "The War Continues"

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Lesson 4 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Enlist - to join the armed forces.

Dedicate - to hold a ceremony as a way to honor a place or person.

Section Review Answers

1. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that slaves were free in the states that had seceded.
2. General Joseph Hooker wanted to keep an army at Fredericksburg and attack Chancellorsville.
3. General Stonewall Jackson was wounded at a battle fought at Chancellorsville.
4. General George G. Meade forced the Confederates back at Gettysburg.
5. The Union army won a battle at Gettysburg.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to describe what the Emancipation Proclamation was?

Can you tell what many runaway enslaved people did during the war?

Can you explain what happened in battles later in the war?

Lesson 5 "The Final Chapters of the War"

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Lesson 5 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Livestock - Animals used for food or profit.

Rebuild - to build something again.

Section Review Answers

1. The loss at Vicksburg was harmful because that meant the Union controlled the entire Mississippi River.
2. Grant wanted to win the war by destroying industry and transportation in the South.
3. The election of 1864 was important because Lincoln's defeat could have led to changes in the war.
4. General Sherman's army destroyed bridges, barns, livestock, railroads, and crops and cut a fifty-mile-wide path through Georgia.
5. General Lee was forced to surrender because his army was surrounded and he wanted to avoid more losses on both sides.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe what happened in some of the final battles?

Are you able to tell how the war ended?

Are you able to describe the losses of the war?

 Preparing for Chapter 16 Test

Turn to Page 320 and read the article, "Lee's Surrender".

Turn to Page 321 and read the Chapter 16 summary.

On page 322-323 you will find the Chapter 16 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 16 Test "The Civil War"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

Chapter 16 Review answers

1. John Hood
2. Gettysburg
3. Antietam
4. Robert E. Lee
5. William Sherman
6. Vicksburg
7. Fort Sumter
8. Stonewall Jackson
9. Gettysburg Address
10. blockade
11. Ambrose Burnside
12. Emancipation Proclamation
13. Appomattox Court House
14. Jefferson Davis

The Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas

1. The blockade prevented the South from selling goods and buying guns and ammunition.
2. The Union scored a number of victories, which gave voters more confidence in Lincoln
3. Confederates officers could keep their pistols; military guns and supplies were to be given to the Union; Confederate soldiers could keep their horses and mules.
4. The Civil War settled once and for all the question of slavery.

Congratulations you finished Chapter 16!!