1. Race riots in the north over the draft
What was the draft?

3. 1862 confiscation act allowed union generals to confiscate slaves in former confedarate terriory and form ‘coloured regiments’

4. This is a precurser to reconstruction
This is a precurser to reconstruction. Success wise it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Watch video and have students take notes.

5. Frederick Douglas
What is this saying in plain English?
‘Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, the US; let me get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship’

6. 13’th Amendment 1865
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
13th amendment: Put into plain and simple English.

7. Source
How positive (1-10)
Explanation
Stretch: Do you expect Black People to be treated fairly when the war is over?

8. A Union army recruitment poster aimed at Black Americans

9. Black Union soldiers did not receive equal pay or equal treatment
Black Union soldiers did not receive equal pay or equal treatment. They were paid $10 a month, with $3 deducted from that pay for clothing—white soldiers received $13 a month with no clothing deduction—until June 1864, when Congress granted retroactive equal pay. Even in the North, racial discrimination was widespread and blacks were often not treated as equals by white soldiers. In addition, segregated units were formed with black enlisted men commanded by white officers and black non-commissioned officers. Some of the white officers had low opinions of their colored troops and failed to adequately train them.

10. Blacks on both sides of the war served in relief roles, for example, working as nurses, cooks, and blacksmiths. The South refused to arm blacks but used them to build fortifications and perform camp duties; many Northern officers refused to believe black troops would fight, and so they were often assigned to non-combat duties or placed in the rear guarding railroads and bridges. Blacks also served as spies and scouts to the Union Army, providing valuable information about Confederate forces, plans, and familiar terrain……The value of the Black Dispatches was recognized by all in the Union and even by the Confederacy—General Robert E. Lee wrote "The chief source of information to the enemy is through our negroes."

11. Units from the United States Colored Troops (USCT) fighting for the Union made their mark on Civil War battlefields in every theater of the war. Though seen by white soldiers and officers as lacking the courage and ability to fight and fight well after Congress allowed the enlistment of African Americans in July 1862, after just three months the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers had changed everyone’s minds. The Union victory at Island Mound in October 1862 was the first engagement of African-American soldiers, during which the 1st Kansas proved their mettle as soldiers.

12. The history of African Americans in the American Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted/soldiers & sailors)[1]:12 African Americans comprising 163 units who served in the United States Army, then nicknamed the "Union Army" during the Civil War.
Many more African Americans served in the United States Navy also known as the "Union Navy" and formed a large percentage of many ships' crews. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.

13. Because of prejudice against them, black units were not used in combat as extensively as they might have been. Nevertheless, the soldiers served with distinction in a number of battles. Black infantrymen fought gallantly at Milliken's Bend, LA; Port Hudson, LA; Petersburg, VA; and Nashville, TN. The July 1863 assault on Fort Wagner, SC, in which the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers lost two-thirds of their officers and half of their troops, was memorably dramatized in the film Glory. By war's end, 16 black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honor for their valor.

14. The black troops, however, faced greater peril than white troops when captured by the Confederate Army. In 1863 the Confederate Congress threatened to punish severely officers of black troops and to enslave black soldiers. As a result, President Lincoln issued General Order 233, threatening reprisal on Confederate prisoners of war (POWs) for any mistreatment of black troops. Although the threat generally restrained the Confederates, black captives were typically treated more harshly than white captives. In perhaps the most heinous known example of abuse, Confederate soldiers shot to death black Union soldiers captured at the Fort Pillow, TN, engagement of Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest witnessed the massacre and did nothing to stop it.

15. Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

16. LO: To research the Civil War from the perspective of Black Americans.
Black soldiers of the Union Army (1860s)
How useful is the source to a historian investigating Black peoples’ experiences of the American Civil War?

17. LO: To research the Civil War from the perspective of Black Americans.
Aspects of the source that are useful are…
My concerns about this source are…..

18. LO: To research the Civil War from the perspective of Black Americans.
Positive
Task: RAG rate your cards. Are they positive, negative or somewhere towards the middle.
Stretch: Make a graph like the one above.
Negative

19. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
LO: To research the Civil War from the perspective of Black Americans.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln