The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

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Barton,Memoirs About

Medical Life at the Battlefield, p. 391

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The Meaning of the Civil War

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3.How did Lincoln’s war aims evolve? What were

the reasons for and consequences of Lincoln’s

Emancipation Proclamation?

4.What factors on the home front influenced the

course of war?

5.The chart on page 393 summarizes the “turning

points” during the Civil War. Which one was the

most important?

6.How did the Civil War strengthen the American

nation? Was the nation stronger after the war

than before?

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Lincoln,First Inaugural

Address,p. 372

Davis,Address to the

Provisional Congress, p. 376

The Emancipation

Proclamation,p. 384

Letter from a Free Black

Volunteer to theChristian Recorder(1864),p. 386

McClellan to Abraham

Lincoln (July 7, 1862), p. 383

The Civil War, Part I: 1861–1862,

p. 388

Sherman,The March

Through Georgia, p. 395

The Civil War Part II: 1863–1865,

p. 398

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