1. Good morning!
Please get out your three document packs: Sources 1-10 & your Socratic Seminar Prep sheet you got last class.
Get out a sheet of paper and make three rows: K W L

2. President Lincoln and the process of emancipation – what do these sources tell us?
What do you know?
What would you like to know? K W L

3. Socratic Seminar Prep See Seminar Prep Sheet from last class Read Docs
Expectations & Guidlines
Read Docs
Answer Questions
What questions do you have?

4. Seminar Prep With your partner…
For each source take turns sharing your responses to the following questions:
I think the main message of this source is…
This tells me _________ about Abraham Lincoln and/or the process of emancipation.
Something I found to be interesting in this source is…
A specific quote or section of this that I found particularly interesting or powerful is…
A question I have about this source is…

5. President Lincoln and the process of emancipation – what do these sources tell us?
What do you know?
What would you like to know?
What have you learned? K W L

6. Life & Politics During the Civil War
GQ#2 - How great were the immediate impacts of the Civil War?

7. 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
Anaconda Plan
Food shortages
Impressments & looting
Inflation
Salt – from 50 cents/bag to $10/bag
Rich vs. Poor
Emancipation
Widespread physical destruction

8. 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

9. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

10. 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 – 4 million
North
Industrialists
Middle class
Poor
Immigrants
Free Blacks
Role of Women

11. 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

12. Presidential Election of 1864

13. The Progress of War:

14. Reflection: Paper 2 Questions
Part A: Why was the South affected so negatively by the Civil War?
Part B: How great were the hardships of Civil War experienced by people of the South?