The document asks three questions about the Confederacy, the Union's war effort during the American Civil War, and the escalation of the war in 1864. It asks how central slavery was to the Confederacy by examining primary documents. It asks what role Jeffersonian thought played in Confederate ideology. It asks how and why the Union's war effort transitioned from preserving the Union to fighting against slavery. And it asks how the Civil War became a 'total war' in 1864.