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CHAPTER 14 – The Civil War

1. THE SECESSION CRISIS

a. The Withdrawal of the South

b. The Failure of Compromise

c. Fort Sumter

d. The Opposing Sides

2. THE MOBILIZATION OF THE NORTH

a. Economic Measures

b. Raising the Union Armies

c. Wartime Politics

d. The Politics of Emancipation

e. African Americans and the Union Cause

f. The War and Economic Development

g. Women, Nursing, and the War

3. THE MOBILIZATION OF THE SOUTH

a. The Confederate Government

b. Money and Manpower

c. States’ Rights versus Centralization

d. Economic and Social Effects of the War

4. STRATEGY AND DIPLOMACY

a. The Commanders

b. The Role of Sea Power

c. Europe and the Disunited States

d. The American West and the War

5. THE COURSE OF BATTLE

a. The Technology of Battle

b. The Opening Clashes, 1861

c. The Western Theatre

d. The Virginia Front, 1862

e. The Progress of War

f. 1863: Year of Decision

g. The Last Stage, 1864-1865

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Republican Party
• Confederacy
• abolitionists
• secession
• Abraham Lincoln
• Union
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Radical Republicans

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Antietam
• Appomattox Court House
• Bull Run
• Clara Barton
• Fort Sumter
• George B. McClellan
• Gettysburg
• Greenbacks
• Homestead Act
• Jefferson Davis
• March to the Sea
• Morrill Land Grant Act
• Robert E. Lee
• Shiloh
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• U.S. Sanitary Commission
• William Tecumseh Sherman

Glory, Gods, and Generals

The Red Badge of Courage

Cold Mountain

Gettysburg

The Civil War (Ken Burns; PBS)