1. Good afterlunch!
Please get out your First Four work and your Major Themes sheet.
Be ready for a First Four activity on the next slide.

2. The Ledger of John White 1856
I see…, I think…, I wonder…
Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00
Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy
Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $
Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00
Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00
The Ledger of John White 1856

3. Life & Politics During the Civil War
GQ#2 - How great was the immediate impact of the Civil War?

4. Life During the Civil War Economics
North
Economic prosperity for some
Many pro-business policies enacted by Republicans
Morrill Tariff
Pacific Railway Act
National Banking Act
Homestead Act
First income tax
Inflation
Growth in size & Power of Fed Govt
Confederacy
Early enthusiasm gave way to economic hardship
Naval Blockade
Food shortages
Impressments & looting
Inflation
Salt – from 50 cents/bag to $10/bag
Rich vs. Poor
Emancipation
Widespread physical destruction

5. The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers]
Southern Society (1860)
Planter
Aristocracy
1,700
Most Slave Owners
The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers]
Owned no slaves
¾ of Whites
Mountain Whites
Freedmen – 250,000
Slaves
4 Million

6. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

7. Life During the Civil War Social Divisions
Confederacy
Planter Aristocrats
Yeoman Farmers
Poor
Resentment of rich as war dragged on
Costs of war
Draft
Role of Women
Slaves
3.5 million
North
Industrialists
Middle class
Poor
Immigrants
Free Blacks
Role of Women

8. Life During the Civil War Political Divisions
Confederacy
~100,000 Union Supporters
Every state except SC raised at least one Union Army unit
“Unionists” in each southern state
Sam Houston – TX
Andrew Johnson - TN
North
Democrats vs. Republicans
Peace Democrats (Copperheads) & War Democrats
1862 Mid-term elections
Big gains for Dems
1864 Presidential Election
Lincoln – National Union Party

9. Presidential Election of 1864

10. The Progress of War:

11. Mid-Unit 2 Vocab Review Use your brain. Use your group.
Use your notes.

12. Paper 2 Intro
Examples from Unit 2

13. Reflection: Paper 2 part A
Why was the South affected so negatively by the Civil War?

14. Socratic Seminar Prep See Pre-Seminar Task Read Docs Answer Questions
What questions do you have?