Download End of the Civil War

END OF THE
CIVIL WAR
SWBAT: Explain why blacks were
attacked during the New York City
Draft Riots
DO NOW
• What message is expressed by these
potholders? Where do you think you could find
such potholders being sold?
• hope for a better life for emancipated slaves, sold at a
fair in Chicago to raise money for Union soldiers
NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS
• July 1863
• Massive amount of human loss at the Battle of
Gettysburg  New York instituted a new draft 
provoked riots in New York City for 4 days
• The mob (mostly Irish immigrants) assaulted draft
offices, mansions of wealthy Republicans,
industrial establishments, & the city’s black
population
• Over 100 people died as a result
READING FOR UNDERSTANDING
• Read, annotate & respond to the 3 questions
based on the text: “The New York City Draft Riots”
• Share and discuss your responses as a group!
UNION TRIUMPHS
• Lincoln appoints Grant to command all Union
armies
• Strategy of war by attrition  wear down
Confederate army & systematically destroy supply
lines
• Fighting foreshadowed trench warfare of WWI
• “War between gentlemen”  “Total war” against
civilians & soldiers
SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA
• General William Tecumseh Sherman led 100,000
men on a campaign of destruction
• Tennessee  Georgia  South Carolina
(Columbia = cradle of secession)
• Burned cotton fields, barns, homes  broke the
spirit of Confederacy
END OF THE WAR
• Winter 1864-65: hunger spread through the south
• April 3, 1865: Richmond fell to Union forces
• April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court
House (Grant allowed Lee’s men to return home
with their horses)
• April 14, 1865: John Wilkes Booth assassinated
Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.
ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF WAR
• First income tax issued during the war
• Paper money known as “greenbacks” issued; NOT
redeemable for gold
• Inflation
• Unified banking network
• Fortunes made during war  new class of
millionaires to finance postwar industrialization
(Carnegie, Vanderbilt)
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF WAR
• Women:
• Operated farms, plantations, factories, served
as military nurses during war
• Left their positions when men returned
• Nursing field now open to women
• Responsibilities during war  push for equality
• Slaves:
• 13th Amendment freed 4 million people
• Economic hardship & political oppression would
continue for generations
WRAP UP
• How did the battle at Gettysburg significantly
change the tide of war?
• To what extent to you believe Sherman’s March to
the Sea was responsible for the defeat of the
Confederacy?