Reading Assignments--Week Seven:
  

  McPherson, Chapters, 16-17

 

Democrats
Copperheads
Contrabands
Knights of the Golden Circle
Horace Greeley
Battle of Antietam
General Joseph Hooker
Ambrose Burnside
Battle of Perryville
Lincoln’s Executive Order of 1862
Emancipation Proclamation 
  

 
Study Questions:
 
How did sentiment for the Union grow in the early phases of the war?
Why did the Confederates fail to win at Antietam?
Why did the Union forces fail to pursue at Antietam?
Trace the various views about contrabands?
Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?