Tuesday: Lincoln and Beginning of the War 1 st Inaugural Address Wednesday: Major battles Gettysburg Address Maps Thursday: The End of the War Emancipation Proclamation Friday: Review
Friday, 1/23 In-class After school by appointment Monday, 1/26 In-class HOMEWORK CAFÉ TUTORING 3:00-4:00 Tuesday, 1/27 EXAM (1 hour)
Non-cumulative Antebellum/Civil War ONLY Will count as a ‘Test’ grade In class Tuesday, 1/27 60 minutes long Scantron (multiple choice) Some passage-based
In Antebellum America, tensions were mounting… Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas Expansion conflict over slavery Lincoln elected 1860 Secession of Southern states civil-war/american-civil-war- history/videos/us-inches-closer-to-war civil-war/american-civil-war- history/videos/us-inches-closer-to-war
Read excerpts of his address: what does he discuss? What is his tone? What is the message?
1 st battle of the Civil War April 12-14, 1861 Claiming this United States fort as their own, the Confederate army opened fire on the federal garrison Lincoln called on volunteers to suppress this "insurrection" Result: Four more slave states seceded and joined the Confederacy
Lincoln was a newly inaugurated President. One state seceded from the Union soon after he was elected, and the Fort Sumter disaster occurred soon after he was in office. 7 states are currently out of the Union. What do you do?
Manifest Destiny Antebellum Civil Secession Union Confederacy Republican Party Fugitive Slave Act Fort Sumter
Continue to work on History Fair! Full draft due by the 29 th
1862 marked the beginning of more large- scale battles Most battles occurred in the South or in border states
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civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg July 1 st -3 rd, 1863 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederate General Lee defeated—ending his attempt to invade the North Nearly 50,000 casualties and losses total RESULT: Decisive Union victory
Naval strategy by Lincoln and the Union to take control of Confederate ports 3,500 miles of Gulf and Atlantic coast New Orleans, Mobile, and other port cities were slowly blocked from trading
May 18 th -July 4 th, 1863 Critical battle for control of the Mississippi RESULT: Grant (Union general) won the surrounding region and effectively cut off Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi
November-December, 1864 Destructive civilian campaign in Georgia General William T. Sherman led a 300-mile march RESULT: decisive psychological victory for the Union, destruction of land and property in the South
Population:22,300,000 9,100,000 (3.5 million slaves) Factories:110,00018,000 Shipping (tonnage):4,600,000290,000 Workers:1,300,000110,000 Cotton Production:43,000 bales5,344,000 bales Wheat and Corn Production:698,000,000 bushels314,000,000 bushels
Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863) Decisive Union victories (1863: Gettysburg, Vicksburg; 1864: Sherman’s March) Confederacy running out of supplies Lincoln re-elected (1864) Confederacy surrenders (1865) Lincoln assassinated (1865)
Women and slaves took on many home front jobs Insubordination Unrest in poor southern communities Thousands of slaves fled to Union lines
Deaths Home-front suffers (more in the South) Union victory Confederacy surrendered Resources depleted End of slavery (on paper)
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