OBJECTIVES

After reading this week's assignments and viewing the related episode, students should be able to:

    * Discuss the antislavery movement
    * Explain the goals of the congressional compromised of 1820 (the Missouri Compromise), the Compromise of 1850 and the proposed Compromise of 1861
    * Describe the events leading to the secession of South Carolina
    * Compare the southern and northern ways of life in the antebellum period

KEY CONCEPTS AND NAMES

    * John Brown
    * Elijah Lovejoy
    * William Lloyd Garrison
    * Jefferson Davis
    * General Thomas J. Jackson
    * Harriet Beecher Stowe
    * Kansas-Nebraska Act
    * colonization
    * free soil
    * manumission societies



OBJECTIVES

After reading this week's assignments and viewing the related episode, students should be able to:

    * Discuss the impact of technology on the war, with specific examples
    * Compare the approaches to battle of Grant and McClellan
    * Contrast the euphoria with which Confederate soldiers enlisted after Fort Sumter with the mood following the passage of the Conscription Act
    * Discuss the effect of the war on the social and economic life of civilians in all parts of the United States - North, South, and West
    * Compare the Union navy to the Union army, in terms of effectiveness

KEY CONCEPTS AND NAMES

    * ironclad
    * Chickahominy
    * Homestead Act
    * Morrill Act
    * minie ball
    * Robert E. Lee
    * George B. McClellan
    * Nathan Bedford Forrest



OBJECTIVES

After reading this week's assignments and viewing the related episode, students should be able to:

    * Discuss the political background of the Emancipation Proclamation and the reasons for Lincoln's change of heart.
    * Discuss European views on the Civil War in 1862.
    * Describe the changing role of blacks in the war in 1862.
    * Compare the methods of financing the war employed by the Union and the Confederacy.

KEY CONCEPTS AND NAMES

    * Wendell Phillips
    * Harriet Tubman
    * General T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson
    * Legal Tender Act
    * War Democrats
    * cotton diplomacy
    * Salmon P. Chase
    * Jeb Stuart
    * Mathew Brady
    * Antietam



OBJECTIVES

After reading this week's assignments and viewing the related episode, students should be able to:

    * Discuss the issue of nationhood and states' rights in the Confederacy.
    * Identify reasons for Lincoln's dissatisfaction with his generals, McClellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker.
    * Identify the northern groups opposing the Emancipation Proclamation.
    * Discuss the wartime restraints on civil liberties in the North and South.

KEY CONCEPTS AND NAMES

    * rebel yell
    * conscription
    * Ambrose E. Burnside
    * Morgan's Raiders
    * bread riot
    * Joseph Hooker
    * impressment
    * bounty
    * butternuts
    * Copperheads
    * Mud March
    * John Singleton Mosby
    * Clement L. Vallandigham
    * Chickasaw Bluffs