History Civil War Study Guide

Civil War Study Guide Directions: As you go through this unit, brainstorm by creating a bullet list of list anything you think would help to answer this question in the area below the question. ------------------------------------------------Compelling Question: Who was to blame for fighting the Civil War? ● The South is to blame for fighting the Civil War. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Supporting Questions: Once you complete each topic, answer the questions thoroughly and in full and complete sentences. 1. What were the advantages and disadvantages of both the North and South? ● An advantage the North had was that they had more people to fight for the Union. An advantage the South had as that they had a stronger will to fight. ● A disadvantage the North had was that they had to go to the South and fight. A disadvantage the South had was that they had less troops to fight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. How did the invention of the Cotton Gin change the North’s view of slavery? ● The invention of the Cotton Gin changed the North’s view of slavery by making them hate it more because the South needed more slaves, and the North didn’t like that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Who were abolitionists and what role did they play in the North? ● Abolitionists were people in the North who disliked slavery and they thought it should be dealt away with in the South. The role they played in the North was they spoke their mind out for people to know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. How did Lincoln’s election cause the southern states to secede? ● It caused the Southern states to secede because they believed that Lincolnl was going to end slavery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------5. What are the factors that led the north and south to fight in a Civil War? ● The South attacked Fort Sumter when they were low on supplies. ● Lincoln said that the Civil War began after the South attacked the fort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------6. What caused Lincoln to give the Emancipation Proclamation? What impact did it have on the Confederacy? ● The reason Lincoln gave the emancipation proclamation was so that the slaves would be freed. ● The Confederacy got mad because Lincoln told them that their slaves can run away whenever they can. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7. What message did President Lincoln send in the Gettysburg Address? ● Lincoln said that even if slavery ended in the United States, he knew it would take a long time for the South to get used to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8. How did the war end and why? ● The war ended because Ulysses S. Grant captured a food train that was going to feed the Confederate army. ● Lee surrendered and Grant gave them their food as a peace sign. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------