8X 11-11-2014 Today’s Agenda: Do Now: page 545 #1-5 in your notebooks. Discuss Do Now and Homework Work on page 545-546 6-14 all as a class. Hopefully we can get through all of it so you don’t have homework tonight. 5. Next test is on November 18th – Civil War battles and life during the Civil War – Chapter 16. One week from now.

6A. The Civil War began in Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. After seceding, Confederates tried to control Fort Sumter. Lincoln refused to give it to them and decided to re-arm it. This resulted in a violent confrontation. 6B. Civilians helped the war effort by becoming surgeons and nurses in the battlefield; they created ammunition, supplies, and weapons; They also raised money and organizations to aid the soldiers. 6C. I think the border states remained in the Union because they may have seen that the Union would win and their slaves would be safer if they stayed loyal to the Union. They also didn’t want a war and secession would lead to war. Despite having slaves, they may have had the same ideas as the North. They did not rely as heavily on slavery as other Southern states.

7A. The first major battle of the war was the First Battle of Bull Run 7A. The first major battle of the war was the First Battle of Bull Run. The Confederates won and it shattered Northern hopes of winning the war quickly. (517). 7B. The Union army was hoping to capture Richmond, VA at the start of the war. This was the Confederate capital. They hoped that this would give them a decisive victory which would end the war quickly. They failed because McClellan was too hesitant and failed to make bold, aggressive moves. 7C. The Union’s naval blockade of the South was successful because they were able to limit trade and starve out Southern cities. It greatly slowed down Southern economies (6,000 ships with exports/imports to 800 ships). The South was weakened and it showed the weakness in their economy (relying too heavily on slavery).

8A. The Cherokees supported the Confederates because some of them had slaves of their own. They also hoped that the Confederate states would give them more freedom. 8B. Union forces were successful in defending lands in the West from Confederates, who wanted to claim these lands. However, it forced them into a defensive position and kept key military units busy. 8C. The most important Union victory in the west was the Siege of Vicksburg because it gave them control of the Mississippi River. This split the Confederacy into two and cut off the Confederate army from food sources in the West.

HW # 9, 10 all and number 11 9A. During the war, women became nurses and took on the majority of healing in the battlefield. They worked the backbone of civilian life, working in farms and factories. They established hospitals and raised money for the war effort. 9B. Oppositions Lincoln faced included opposition to the war. He responded by suspending habeas corpus (the right to a fair trial before imprisonment) and throwing his opponents (Copperheads) in jail for speaking publicly against him. There were also many protests against an unfair military draft. 9C. Newly freed slaves in the South could have faced the Southerners hate/efforts to bring them back into slavery, lack of housing, lack of jobs, and discrimination in the North from people who were afraid of being replaced by free Africans in their jobs.