REVIEW & RELATE

1. What led four more states to join the Confederacy in 1861 and four other slave states to remain in the Union?

2. What advantages and disadvantages did each side have at the onset of the war?

3. How and why did the Union and the Confederacy treat American Indian and African American participation in the war differently?

4. What events occurred to make the Civil War become a war to end slavery?

5. What were the economic effects of the war on the North and the South?

6. How did social conflicts created or heightened by the war fuel dissent and protest in the North and the South?

7. What role did African Americans play in the defeat of the South? How did attitudes toward African Americans change in the final year of the war?

8. How did the Union win the war against the Confederacy while defeating Indians in the West?