1. UNIT 7: MILITARY CONFLICT
LESSON 7.5:
Part 4: Life During the War and Turning Points

2. LIFE DURING THE WAR

3. Focus
In your Journal, summarize what you have learned about the early stages of the Civil War.
What was the significance of the first Battle of Bull Run?
How did the battle of Shiloh influence general grants reputation?
Why did lee decide to invade the north?
What is the significance of the Battle of Antietam?

4. desertion

5. THE WARTIME ECONOMIES
BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH STRUGGLED TO KEEP THEIR ECONOMIES GOING
SOUTH= FEWER FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND LITTLE INDUSTRY= INFLATION AND SHORTAGES
NORTH = SUPPORTED BY BANKS AND INDUSTRIES, WAS ABLE TO RESPOND TO CHANGES BY WAR

6. SOUTHERN SHORTAGES
BY END OF 1862, UNION FORCES HAD DESTROYED THE SOUTHS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
WITH UNION TROOPS IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL REGIONS, SOUTH = FOOD SHORTAGES
MORALE LOW
MANY SOLDIERS DESERTED TO HELP THEIR FAMILIES
FOOD SHORTAGES LED TO RIOTS IN SOUTH
Primary source doc. from Salsbury= impact of blockade

7. UNION: WAR BOOM
NORTHERN FACTORIES SUPPLIED TROOPS W/ AMMUNITION, CLOTHES, AND OTHER NECESSITIES
NORTHERN FARMERS USED MECHANIZED REAPERS AND MOWERS = FARMING POSSIBLE W/ FEWER WORKERS
WOMEN WORKED IN INDUSTRIES TO FILL LABOR SHORTAGES THERE

8. AP 1
Once sentence

9. AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MILITARY
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OFFICIALLY ALLOWED AFRICAN AMERICANS TO ENLIST IN THE UNION
THE 54TH MASSACHUSSETTS WAS AMONG THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN REGIMENTS
THE 54TH LOST HALF ITS SOLDIERS IN BATTLE. ITS BRAVERY PROOF THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS MADE GREAT SOLDIERS

10. AP 2
Once sentence

11. MILITARY LIFE BOTH UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS SUFFERED HARDSHIPS.
SOME SOUTHERNERS HAD NO BLANKETS, MARCHED BAREFOOT
FOOD SCARCE = HARDTACK

12. BATTLEFIELD MEDICINE THE WAR PRODUCED HUGE NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES
DOCTORS DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GERMS = INFECTIONS SPREAD QUICKLY
DISEASES SUCH AS SMALLPOX, DYSENTARY, PNEUMONIA WERE GRAVE THREATS

13. WOMEN SERVED AS NURSES
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL STARTED FIRST TRAINING PROGRAM FOR NURSES
UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION = PROVIDED MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND HELP TO ARMY CAMPS AND HOSP.

14. PRISONERS OF WAR
AT FIRST, THE UNION AND CONFEDERATES AGREED TO PRISONER EXCHANGES
SOUTHERN REACTION TO EMANCIPATION PROCLOMATION LED TO LINCOLN REFUSING PRISONER EXCHANGES
THE SOUTH, SUFFERING FROM FOOD SHORTAGE, COULD NOT CARE FOR PRISONERS
PRISONERS DIED FROM STAVATION, EXPOSURE, DISEASE, AND OVERCROWDING = ANDERSONVILLE

15. AP 3
One sentence

16. THE TURNING POINTS
“VICKSBURG IS KEY” = CAPTURING VICKSBURG WOULD CUT SOUTH IN 2 AND ENSURE A VICTORY FOR UNION
THE “SIEGE OF VICKSBURG” LED TO A CONFEDERATE SURRENDER ON JULY

17. THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
JULY
BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR
Read 339
FINAL DAY = PICKETTS CHARGE LED TO 7,000 CASUALTIES
“OLD VIRGINIA”

18. GETTYSBURG-CONTINUED
PROVED TO BE THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR
STRENGTHENED REPUBLICANS
BRITAIN WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE CONFEDERACY
LEE WOULD BE FORCED TO FIGHT A DEFENSIVE WAR

19. AP 4
One sentence

20. ACTIVITY EXAMINE “THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS” ON PAGES 338 AND 339.
ANSWER QUESTIONS 1,2 3 2 1

21. Learning Log SUMMARIZE IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY…
WHY DID SOUTHERN MORALE BEGIN TO SUFFER BY THE END OF 1862?
SUMMARIZE THE REASON’S FOR THE NORTH’S ECONOMIC BOOM DURING THE WAR.
WHY WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE 54TH MASSACHUSSETTS SIGNIFICANT FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS?
WHAT WERE SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN DURING THE WAR?
WHY WAS CAPTURING VICKSBURG IMPORTANT TO THE UNION?
HOW WAS GETTYSBURG A TURNING POINT IN THE WAR?