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Making America: A History of the United States, Brief Second Edition
Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, James L. Gormly, W. Thomas Mainwaring
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Chapter 14: A Violent Solution: Civil War, 1861 -1865

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Analyze the constraints that both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis faced as the Civil War began, and describe how they dealt with them in order to prosecute the war.

  2. Indicate how the military events of the war from the first Battle of Bull Run to Antietam affected expectations in both the North and the South.

  3. Describe how the war affected the home front on both sides.

  4. Explain how and why the North gradually won the war between 1863 and 1865.



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