CH21 – The Furnace of Civil War

Time Frame: 1861-1865

Objectives: At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Describe the consequences for both sides of the North’s defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
• Outline Union’s original military strategy and how Lincoln was forced to adjust it during the course of the War.
• Explain the critical importance of the failed Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam in changing the Civil War from a limited war for the Union into a total war against slavery.
• Describe the role that African Americans played during the war.
• Explain why the battles of Gettysburg in the East and Vicksburg in the West decisively turned the tide toward Union victory and Confederate defeat.
• Describe the politics of the War in both North and South, and the end of the South’s hope for winning independence through a defeat of Lincoln in the election of 1864.
• Describe the end of the war and list its final consequences.
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Assignments

• Sherman’s March to the Sea Blog Response

Resources

• The Civil War PowerPoint
• Abraham Lincoln Papers
  from the Library of Congress
• The Battle of Antietam
  Audio from an NPR interview with Civil War historian James McPherson
• Documents from the Confederate States of America
  from The Avalon Project