1. Civil War & Reconstruction Day 8
Civil War & Reconstruction #2 due 10:45 p.m.
Warm-up
Civil War Notes
Objective: TLW identify, explain, and analyze the major events and people of the Civil War
Activity: Have students write down their warm up in their journal, discuss. Then introduce the Civil War, using the power points discuss how the Civil War began and students will be taking notes in their journal. Use the Civil War Part 1 power point.
Materials: Journal, pen/pencil, power points
Evaluation: Teacher observation & notes.
TEKS: 8ABC, 22AB
Warm-Up
Whose violence is represented on the map?
John Brown

2. Dred Scott v. Sanford Text Significance Ruled slaves were property.
“We think (those persons who are the descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold as slaves’) are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution…”
“The unhappy black race were separated from the white by indelible marks, and laws long before established, and were never thought of or spoken of except as property…”
“…it is the opinion of the court that the act of congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind (slave) in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned is not warranted by the constitution, and is therefore void…”
“…the plaintiff (Dred Scott)…could not be a citizen of the State of Missouri within the meaning of the constitution of the United States, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts.”
Ruled slaves were property.
Ruled blacks were not U.S. citizens.
Ruled slaves could not file lawsuits.
Ruled slavery could not be prohibited in territories.
Ruled slaves had voting rights

3. Boundary disputes between Texas and Mexico
U.S.
annexed Texas
Boundary disputes between Texas and Mexico
Manifest Destiny ?
Which of the following best replaces the question mark? A. War of B. U.S. - Mexican War C. Louisiana Purchase D. Gadsden Purchase

4. Which of these abolitionists had once been a slave?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe

5. Slaves escaped to freedom using a network of people, paths, and places known as the -
Manifest Destiny
Underground Railroad
“Declaration of Sentiments”
Auburn System

6. Which movement sought to increase wages, shorten the workday, and restrict child labor?
Labor Reform
Temperance
Education Reform
Care of the mentally ill

7. Who was a leader in the reform movement that followed The Seneca Falls convention of 1848 at which the “Declaration of Sentiments” was issued?
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
All of the above

8. All of the following created conflict over the issue of slavery before the U.S. Civil War. Which of these most directly led to the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Increased activity by northern abolitionists
Active Underground railroad
Acquisition of new territory which would produce new states
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

9. ON YOUR DESK UNDER YOUR CHAIR
Journal pages 6-7
Pen or Pencil
UNDER YOUR CHAIR
Everything Else

10. THE CIVIL WAR
Part 1

11. THE CIVIL WAR
More Americans died in the Civil War than in the:
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Mexican War
Spanish War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Gulf War I and Gulf War II
COMBINED

12. CAUSES OF THE WAR Compromises
Long term issues such as slavery, and states’ rights had divided the nation since the founding of the Republic.
How did the nation avoid civil war in previous decades?
Compromises

13. Civil War Map

14. FORT SUMTER
Located in the harbor of Charleston, the Confederates attacked the federal fort on April 12, This officially started the war.

15. Supplies

19. NORTH SOUTH President: Abraham Lincoln President: Jefferson Davis
Capital: Washington, D.C.
24 states
22 million people
85% of the factories
71% of railroad mileage
Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
What inferences can you draw?
President: Jefferson Davis
Capital: Richmond,Virginia
11 states
9 million people
3.5 million were slaves
15% of the factories
29% of railroad mileage
Commander: Robert E. Lee
How can the South possibly win?
Better leadership and greater determination, like the colonists in the Revolutionary War
The North should win

20. STRATEGIES FOR VICTORY: SOUTH (CONFEDERACY)
The South planned to fight a defensive war—make the North come to them.
The South hoped to raise money to fight the war by selling cotton to Europe.
This didn’t work because the North blockaded the coast and Europe already had a surplus of cotton.

21. They wanted to surround the South and put the squeeze on them.
UNION STRATEGY
Blockade the southern coast
Gain control of the Mississippi River
Split the upper and lower south
Capture Richmond
The strategy was called the Anaconda Plan.WHY?
They wanted to surround the South and put the squeeze on them.

22. Anaconda Plan

23. THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN Located in northern Virginia.
Led by Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the south won the battle.
Battle showed that the war would be LONG and BLOODY, not a three-month war like some thought.

25. THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIER Most were between 18-30.
Some as young as 11 and as old as 83 served.
Most were farmers.
Many were illiterate, especially in the south.
Many saw this as an adventure until reality set in.

26. ARMY LIFE Camps were unsanitary.
Soldiers fought lice, fleas, dysentery, measles, yellow fever, etc.
Bathing and washing was sporadic.
Diet was limited.

27. ARMY DISCIPLINE
Punishment for crimes included wearing signs, balancing weights, late night guard duty, whippings, branding, and execution.

28. MEDICINE Unsanitary Poorly-trained doctors. No modern medicines.
Amputation was a common solution for a soldier’s wounds.
Limited painkillers
More died of sickness in the war than being killed in combat.

30. MILITARY TECHNOLOGY Rifles were improved.
The development of the minié ball was perhaps the single greatest cause for the number of deaths in the Civil War.
It was accurate and destructive.
Ironclads, warships covered with iron, big improvement over wooden ships
Minié ball

31. Exit Ticket
You can work with a partner, must fill out exit ticket before you leave today.