Reading Assignments--Week Nine:

McPherson, Chapters, 20-21 (DUE: See Calendar)

  

Clement Vallandigham
New York Draft Riots
Peace Democrats
Union League
Bureau of Colored Troops
Enrollment Act
Commutation fee
54th Massachusetts
Jefferson Davis
Homestead Act
Morrill Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Confederate Tax Law
Confederate Impressment Act
Benjamin Butler

U.S. Sanitary Commission
  

 
Study Questions:
 
Who were the Copperheads and what did they advocate?
Describe some of the northern and southern reactions to the efforts to enlist black soldiers in the Union army.
What conclusions can you draw about the social profiles of Northern and Southern soldiers?
What was meant by the phrase the “emancipation proclamation confirmed”?