Today in U.S. History: 11/01/11
Nov 1, 2011
- Review (Test Tomorrow)
- Check Below for Review
- Skyward
- Video: Stealing Lincoln's Body
- Scrapbook Responsibility
REMINDERS/COMING UP:
- Graded Papers in the tray (on right).
- Remember to check your folders if you've been absent!
- Same #s
- 2nd Block: Red
- 3rd Block: Blue
- Pick up Graded Scrapbooks and Binders
- Monday
- Binder/CNN Log Check
- Skyward Check
- Wednesday
- Civil War Test
- Get on board w/ Skyward!
- Vocabulary Due
- Thursday
- Cities Quiz #23 (Cities #31-45)
- Friday
- Scrapbooks Due: Civil War
Review:
- Civil War Data Sheet
- The Goal of all the Compromises in the 40 years leading up to the Civil War?
- Pt. 1
- Final straw leading to states seceding from the Union?
- Society and Economic Differences between the North and South (Which was industry and city-based; which was ag. and rural-based)?
- Major, irreconcilable difference between the North and South
- Original Seven states to secede?
- Dilemma of southern officers, and how did most of them end up deciding (including Lee)?
- False optimism of both sides?
- Goals of the North and South going in to the Civil War?
- Strategies of the North and South?
- Importance of Antietam?
- Did the E.P. actually free anyone?
- What was the actual impact?
- Pt. 2
- Factors that led to such a high death rate?
- Relationship between weapons and tactics (i.e. which were up to date and which weren't)?
- Significance of Gettysburg?
- Purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
- Why Lincoln was finally able to settle on Grant as his top officer?
- Pt. 3
- How/why Grant became known as "The Butcher"?
- Why Lee had no hope for reinforcements?
- What was Lee's only hope toward the end of the war?
- Lincoln's only hope for re-election?
- Reason William Sherman is still hated in the South even today?
- Attitude of Lincoln towards the South following the end of the War?
- Why Lincoln seemed to age so much in his 4 years as president?
- Location and manner of Lincoln's assassination?
- Comparison of casualty #'s compared to all other American Wars?
- Other impacts of the Civil War?
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