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While reading the assigned selection, answer the following guide questions:

1. How did the Union's strategy change upon the selection of Grant as General in Chief?

2. How did Sherman's strategy compare to that of Grant's? How was it similar?

3. What factors necessitated economic change in the South during the war?

4. How did the war affect the economy in the North?

5. Compare the living conditions of civilians in the North to the South during the war.

6. How did the war affect the Confederacy's outlook on the propects of continuing slavery?

7. What opportunities did the war provide women?

8. How did Lincoln's expansion of Presidential powers affect his political fortunes in 1864?

9. In your own words, why did the South lose the war?

10. Agree/disagree: the Civil War allowed the United States to finally achieve a real union.

11. How did reconstruction pose an even bigger challenge than fighting the war itself?