Exam. Due Friday Nov. 16

What is the difference between strategy and tactics? Give examples.

Explain turning the flank and rolling up the flank.

Why was it wise for Lee to divide his forces and foolish for
McClellan not to use all of his during Second Manassas?

How did “protecting the capital” influence Lee’s strategy?

What are the advantages for the defender in a battle?

Why was Second Manassas important? What did it lead to?

Why did Lee invade Maryland?

What are the disadvantages of an invader, tactically speaking?

What happened at “the bloody lane”?

How was Lee’s retreat at Antietam a Union victory?

Why is an orderly, tactical retreat so important?

Emancipation: Explain Lincoln’s reasoning

(here’s a clue: the Fifth Ammendment was in his way)

How was Emancipation to bleed the south?

In what way did Emancipation change the Union’s war aims?

Why was keeping France and England out of the war so important to Lincoln?

How did he do it?

List the advantages to England if she remain neutral.

List the advantages of supported the south?

How were northern Irish and northern Blacks competing with each other?

What did they have in common?

What was “contraband”. How did it help the north and hurt the south?

Upcoming Class Schedule:

Wed Nov 7: Antietam and Emancipation
Mon Nov 12: Gettysburg (take home test)
Wed Nov 14: (pete out) Gods and Generals, the movie
Fri Nov 16: (pete out) the movie
Mon Nov 19: the Wilderness and Petersburg
Mon Nov 26: Surrender and Lincoln (take home test)
Wed Nov 28: Reconstruction
Fri Nov 30: Civil Rights

Homework for Wednesday Oct 31

Define and illustrate the following:


Interior Lines in battle
Interior Lines on the grand scale (for instance the use of rivers and railroads)

Friday's Class (October 26)

We will be watching part of the wonderful Ken Burns' documentary for this class.

There will be two homework assignments for this weekend: first, illustrate on a map the general thrusts of the Anaconda Plan. Second, I will ask you to do a little research: List the advantages that the North had and the advantages that the South had. There should be at least three each. Be sure to explain them.

Review for Wednesday's Exams.

Most of the following will be on either the in-class exam or the take home test due on Friday.
All take home exams must be emailed to me by 4:00 Friday afternoon.
Friday we will be viewing the beginning of the Ken Burns documentary.

What are the basic outlines of the Dred Scott Case?

What was the conflict between property and personhood?

How did the Dred Scott case reflect the philosophy of government in the south?

What is natural law. What is positive law?

Describe the Missouri Compromise. When was it? Who wrote it?

Compare the centrality of factories in the north to the centrality of slavery in the south.

How did the north and south change in relation to slavery from 1830-60?

How was the early wealth of the north created?

What was that wealth invested into?

What did the south depend on the north for?

How did cheap labor, immigration, and industrialization relate to one another?

Describe the southern elite.

How did attitudes towards work differ between the elites of the north and south?

How did slavery differ between Virginia, South Carolina, and the lower Mississippi?

Describe the following conditions for industrialization in the north:
labor (skilled and unskilled); buildings, land, and equipment;
power (coal, water); capital; raw materials; ports; transportation

Contrast northern and southern agriculture. How did the growth of cities affect the specialization of farming in the north? What was the main influence on farming in the south?

Who was Henry Clay? Who was John Calhoun?

Why were "improvements" important to the north, and anathema to south?

Describe the biggest influences on the US in the mid-19th century:
slavery, immigration, technology (agricultural, industrial, communication),
democracy, and land.

According to Calhoun what was the only constitutional role for the federal government?

Describe the Compromise of 1850: how was a state traded for theory? Who brokered it?

Why were Californians against coming in as a slave state?

Why did their representatives vote with the south throughout the 1850's?

Homework Due Friday, Sept 28

Get those geography tests in! You will be assigned another for Monday.

Geography Take Home Test, Part One, Due Wednesday

Draw the following on a blank map. Be accurate!

Cities:

Cincinatti
Louisville
Cairo
Memphis
Vicksburg
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Savannah
Nashville
Knoxville
Richmond
Montgomery
Atlanta
Columbia
Pittsburg
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Norfolk
Charleston
Mobile
Trenton