Problem
A. As the Union army penetrated the heart of the Deep South, how would a northern soldier named Marcus Spiegel change his mind about slavery?
B. What was the population of the Union (the North) including border slave states that stayed loyal?
C. What was the population of the Confederacy (the South)?
D. What did the Union far outstrip the Confederacy in (giving it a great advantage in the war)? But why did the Union in the end confront the greater task?
E. What did the famous battle between the Union Monitor and the Confederate Merrimac in 1862 demonstrate? What was the traditional musket now replaced with? About how many men perished in the Civil War?
F. What did the brilliant Southern General Robert E. Lee (who came to symbolize the Confederate cause) hope that a series of defeats by the Union army would do?
G. On July 21, 1861, how did the first major battle of the Civil War (called the First Battle of Bull Run) end? How many were killed at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland? How many were wounded? How many died later from wounds?
H. On September 22, 1862, what did Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warn the South of? On January 1, 1863 who exactly did Lincoln declare would be "henceforth and forever free"?
I. By the end of the war, how many black men had served in the Union army? What happened to about a third of these enlisted men? How did the 54th Massachusetts regiment dispel doubts about black soldier's ability to fight well under pressure? Initially how much were black soldiers paid? How much were white soldiers paid?
J. To spur economic development, what did the Homestead Act of Congress do? What two companies did Congress give 100 million acres of land to? When completed in 1869, by how much did the transcontinental railroad reduce cross-country travel time?
K. Like the Union, what did the Confederacy allow individuals (usually rich men) to do to avoid the draft? In the Confederacy, who else could be exempted from service in the military? By the end of the war, how many southern men had deserted? From which class were most of these deserters?
L. How many Southern soldiers were involved in one charge (General Pickett's famous charge) at the Battle of Gettysburg? How many returned alive? What happened on July 4, 1863? What did General Sherman do on his March to the Sea from Sept. to Dec. 1864?
M. What happened on April 14, 1865, just a few days after the North's final victory?