Read the text from the links below to the Digital History website and answer the corresponding questions in your notebooks.
- Read: The Civil War Begins
1. What was President Abraham Lincoln's response to the secession of the Confederate states?
2. Summarize Lincoln's beliefs about the existence of the Union as a whole.
3. What was Robert E. Lee's conflict at the start of the Civil War?
- Read: Why the Civil War was so Lethal
1. Identify and explain three reasons why the Civil War was the deadliest war in American history.
- Read: The Anaconda Plan
1. Summarize the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan.
2. Was it successful?
- Pressure for Emancipation
1. According to the first paragraph, what is Lincoln's main goal at the start of the war?
2. From what sources was Lincoln being pressured to free the slaves?
3. How did the "contraband of war" and the Confiscation Act influence the freedom of slaves?
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