1. Happy Wednesday!  Your task for today during class:
1. Copy down the notes (chart included)
2. Complete the “Trading Cards” Assignment
3. BEHAVE!!!
*If you were not in class on Monday and still haven’t completed the class assignment YOU NEED TO BEFORE TOMORROW

2. larger population (22 million) 91% of national industry
Side
Advantages
Disadvantages
North (Union)
larger population (22 million)
91% of national industry
71% of all railway mileage
control of most of the naval fleet
Abraham Lincoln’s leadership – called up troops, suspended civil liberties
-fighting to preserve the Union and of the war) end slavery
Could easily raise money through taxes
issuance of “greenbacks” kept the money supply growing/flowing
clear strategy to defeat the South - Anaconda Plan
North had to fully defeat the South by occupying/subduing it
weaker military leadership at the start of the war
not all politicians supported the war
(ex: Copperheads)
conscription became very unpopular – led to draft riots by 1863
South (Confederacy)
fighting for independence and rights– “The Cause”
ability to use “interior lines” for defense
high morale
fighting on home turf
better military leadership (Lee, Jackson)
British and French dependency on Southern cotton, “cotton diplomacy”
smaller population (9 million, 3 million were slaves)
very little industry
limited railway mileage
limited naval forces
limited financial resources
fighting to preserve an immoral institution (slavery)
food shortages due to Union blockade and drain of manpower into army

6. Northern strategy: anaconda plan
GOAL: Surround the Confederacy and squeeze into submission

7. Anaconda plan (WINFIELD SCOTT)
Capture Richmond, VA (Confederacy capital)
Control Mississippi River
Blockade Southern ports
Rid confederates from border states

8. Southern strategy Defend homeland
Hold onto as much territory as possible until North is worn thin
Capture DC and border states

9. Robert e. lee first offered union position
CIVIL WAR FUN FACT
Robert e. lee first offered union position
"I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children."

10. Conscription- aka draft
First issued by the Confederate States of America
United States also issued a conscription further into the war
Individuals could pay to escape enlistment and also find substitutes
(only 6% actually served)

11. CONSCRIPTION PROBLEMS
RIOTS!
RESISTANCE!
LOWERS MORALE

12. "We're coming, ancient Abraham, several hundred strong
We hadn't no 300 dollars and so we come along
We hadn't no rich parents to pony up the tin
So we went unto the provost and there were mustered in."

13. HABEUS CORPUS
Definition: petition to seek relief from unlawful imprisonment
Civil War Relation?
Abraham Lincoln SUSPENDS THIS DURING THE WAR
In YOUR Opinion-
Did Lincoln have this right?

14. TRADING CARDS ASSINGMENT
You are to create a series of 10 “trading cards” for the following battles and generals.
You may create these online (print before class) or on notecards/sheets of white paper.
Battles: Bull Run, Antietam, March to Sea, Gettysburg, Vicksburg
Must include for each: Name of battle, Date(s), Location, 2 sentence description of the fighting/strategies used, 1 sentence description of the significance, victor, image,
Generals: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan
Must include for each: Name, Union or Confederacy?, 2 sentence brief biography about their contributions to the war, list of 3 significant battles they were involved in, image