AP Reading and writing assignment December 15-31 2008
Create Notecards for chapters 15 and 16
Your responses are due January 6
Read chapters 15 and 16 and identify the following Terms
Election of 1860
William Seward
“Black Republicanism”
secession
Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter
border states
West Virginia
rifle/rifled barrel (v. smooth bore muskets)
Legal Tender Act (1862)
National Banking Act (1863)
Homestead Act (1862)
Morill Land-Grant College Act (1863)
Pacific Railroad Act (1863)
Trent Affair
emancipation
self-emancipation
contraband
Emancipation Proclamation
General George McClellan
Peace Democrats / “Copperheads”
suspension of habeas corpus
exparte Milligan
exparte Mulligan
Confederation Conscription Act (April 1862)
New York City Draft Riots (July 1863)
Compare the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War
NORTH
SOUTH
Population (quantify)
Free:
Slave:
Economy (industry, financial resources, trade/commerce, labor base)
military—supplies and equipment and manufacturing capabilities
military—leaders and skills (of leaders and foot soldiers)
Infrastructure, transportation, & communication systems
Diplomacy
Objectives / goals
(offensive or defensive?)
Morale
