1. Outline for Week 5 (week of Mon 4 February 2008) 1.Midterm Exam next meeting (Wednesday 6 February 2008) 2.Every Which Way But Loose: Destructive Violence as American Public Policy a.Week #4 Readings: Henretta, pp. 398-441 and Critical Thinking Module “Who Freed the Slaves?”“Who Freed the Slaves?” b.Week #5 Readings: Henretta, pp. 442-490 c.Week 4 Discussion Questions: - When and why did the Civil War become a war to free slaves? -How did Civil War influence U.S. policy regarding Indians in the West? Compare Sherman’s role in South and West? - Voices: Axalla John Hoole, Ernest Duveyier de Hauranne, Dolly Sumner Lunt d.Week 5 Discussion Questions: –How did the goals of Congressional Reconstruction contrast with Lincoln’s plans and why? –How did the military occupation of the South compare with the military occupation of the West after 1865? –Voices: Ida Lindgren, Harriet Hernandes, Jourdon Anderson, Stanta, Ten Bears, Satank, Luther Standing Bear, Carl Sweezy, Old Lady Horse, Pretty Shield, Tiburcio Vásquez:

2. Before Next Meeting (Wednesday) See guide to preparing for essay exams on website (www.wou.edu/~geierm/www.wou.edu/~geierm/ Midterm exam scheduled for Weds, February 6: oBlue Books and dark-ink pen required for midterm oIncludes assigned readings through this week Before next Monday (Feb 11): Read for understanding context of above materials: oHenretta, pp. 491-534 oVoices: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod, Rose Schneiderman

3. What happened to the “reform” ideal between 1850 and Lincoln’s Election? 1.Growing reality of slavery: # Slaves in U.S. tripled, 1830-1860 growth of New Southern economy 2.Growing inescapability of slavery (Dred Scott case) 3.Virtual Disappearance of the Indian question Sea Islands, SC Slave family, ca. 1860 Who freed the slaves?

4. Breaking Faith: 1861 Order of Secession

5. The Union Conquest of the Confederacy: 1861-1865

6. War on their people: Lee in PA, Summer 1863

7. War on their people (2): Sherman in the Confederacy, November 1863- April 1865

8. Trench warfare and the grinding attrition of industrial warfare, May 1864- April 1865

9. “War … is all Hell” –W.T.Sherman

10. Fields of Antietam United States Sanitary Commision Union Army Nurse Anne Bell, TN The Reform Impulse in Wartime?

11. Planning for Post-War Reconstruction: Goals and Conflicts Appomatox Courthouse Surrender terms (9 April 1865) Sherman and Johnstone’s surrender terms (18 April 1865) Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plans? Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan (April 1865-1867) Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1877 The Freedmen’s Bureau The Myth of “Black Reconstruction” “Redemption” Campaigns (1870-1877)

12. Anti-black riots, NY July 1863; Slave “contrabands”, Rappahannock, VA, 1863; Sea Island freed slaves, SC, 1864

13. Martial Law and Reconstruction, 1861-1877:

14. Union Army RR Bridge Rebuilding

16. Before Next Meeting (Wednesday) See guide to preparing for essay exams on website (www.wou.edu/~geierm/www.wou.edu/~geierm/ Midterm exam scheduled for Weds, February 6: oBlue Books and dark-ink pen required for midterm oIncludes assigned readings through this week Before next Monday (Feb 11): Read for understanding context of above materials: oHenretta, pp. 491-534 oVoices: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod, Rose Schneiderman

17. B. Perceptions of the West in 19 th century America