1. The Impact of War

2. Civil War Video Focus Questions:
What hardships did soldiers in the Civil War face?
What is the significance of the Battle of Vicksburg?
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the war?

3. Page 361 Do Now, 4/1/14 The Gettysburg Address
Read this speech carefully and answer the “primary source” analysis questions.
Page 361

4. The North Takes Charge

5. War Affects Regional Economies
Do Now, 4/2/14
War Affects Regional Economies
Using only your homework (no partners, no books) as a resource, write one or two sentences contrasting the way the war affected the Northern economy with the way it affected the Southern economy.

6. Turn to page 372
What were the immediate ECONOMIC effects of the war?
What were the long- term ECONOMIC effects of the war?

7. The Costs of the Civil War (page 367)

8. America’s Deadliest War

9. Respond to the following in your binder:
Do Now
Respond to the following in your binder:
Historians often refer to the Civil War as the first “modern war.” Based on what we have discussed so far, do you think this name is accurate? Why or why not?

10. Intelligence gathering Photography
The “First Modern War”
Weapons
Shipping
Communications
Transportation
Intelligence gathering
Photography

11. Photojournalism (pg. 369)
"My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history."
- Mathew B. Brady
Civil War photography introduced ordinary citizens to the harsh realities of war.

12. The War’s Legacy