Good morning! Please get out your three document packs: Sources 1-10 & your Socratic Seminar Prep sheet you got last class. Get out a sheet of paper and make three rows: K W L

President Lincoln and the process of emancipation – what do these sources tell us? What do you know? What would you like to know? K W L

Socratic Seminar Prep See Seminar Prep Sheet from last class Read Docs Expectations & Guidlines Read Docs Answer Questions What questions do you have?

Seminar Prep With your partner… For each source take turns sharing your responses to the following questions: I think the main message of this source is… This tells me _________ about Abraham Lincoln and/or the process of emancipation. Something I found to be interesting in this source is… A specific quote or section of this that I found particularly interesting or powerful is… A question I have about this source is…

President Lincoln and the process of emancipation – what do these sources tell us? What do you know? What would you like to know? What have you learned? K W L

Life & Politics During the Civil War GQ#2 - How great were the immediate impacts of the Civil War?

Life During the Civil War Economics North Economic prosperity for some Many pro-business policies enacted by Republicans Morrill Tariff Pacific Railway Act National Banking Act Homestead Act First income tax Inflation Growth in size & Power of Fed Govt Confederacy Early enthusiasm gave way to economic hardship Anaconda Plan Food shortages Impressments & looting Inflation Salt – from 50 cents/bag to $10/bag Rich vs. Poor Emancipation Widespread physical destruction

The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] Southern Society (1860) Planter Aristocracy 1,700 Most Slave Owners The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] Owned no slaves ¾ of Whites Mountain Whites Freedmen – 250,000 Slaves 4 Million

Slave-Owning Population (1850)

Life During the Civil War Social Divisions Confederacy Planter Aristocrats Yeoman Farmers Poor Resentment of rich as war dragged on Costs of war Draft Role of Women Slaves 3.5 – 4 million North Industrialists Middle class Poor Immigrants Free Blacks Role of Women

Life During the Civil War Political Divisions Confederacy ~100,000 Union Supporters Every state except SC raised at least one Union Army unit “Unionists” in each southern state Sam Houston – TX Andrew Johnson - TN North Democrats vs. Republicans Peace Democrats (Copperheads) & War Democrats 1862 Mid-term elections Big gains for Dems 1864 Presidential Election Lincoln – National Union Party

Presidential Election of 1864

The Progress of War: 1861-1865

Reflection: Paper 2 Questions Part A: Why was the South affected so negatively by the Civil War? Part B: How great were the hardships of Civil War experienced by people of the South?