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Tuesday: Lincoln and Beginning of the War
 1st Inaugural Address
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Wednesday: Major battles
 Gettysburg Address
 Maps
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Thursday: The End of the War
 Emancipation Proclamation
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Friday: Review
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Friday, 1/23
 In-class
 After school by appointment
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Monday, 1/26
 In-class
 HOMEWORK CAFÉ TUTORING 3:00-4:00
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Tuesday, 1/27
 EXAM (1 hour)
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Non-cumulative
Antebellum/Civil War ONLY
Will count as a ‘Test’ grade
In class Tuesday, 1/27
60 minutes long
Scantron (multiple choice)
Some passage-based
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In Antebellum America, tensions were
mounting…
Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
Expansion  conflict over slavery
Lincoln elected 1860
Secession of Southern states
http://www.history.com/topics/americancivil-war/american-civil-warhistory/videos/us-inches-closer-to-war
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Read excerpts of his address: what does he
discuss? What is his tone? What is the
message?
 1st battle of the Civil War
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April 12-14, 1861
Claiming this United States fort as their own,
the Confederate army opened fire on the
federal garrison
Lincoln called on volunteers to suppress this
"insurrection"
Result: Four more slave states seceded and
joined the Confederacy
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Lincoln was a newly inaugurated President.
One state seceded from the Union soon after
he was elected, and the Fort Sumter disaster
occurred soon after he was in office. 7 states
are currently out of the Union. What do you
do?
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Manifest Destiny
Antebellum
Civil
Secession
Union
Confederacy
Republican Party
Fugitive Slave Act
Fort Sumter
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Continue to work on History Fair!
Full draft due by the 29th
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1862 marked the beginning of more largescale battles
Most battles occurred in the South or in
border states
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Civil War in 4 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1VX_g
8JZM
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http://www.history.com/topics/americancivil-war/battle-of-gettysburg
July 1st-3rd, 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Confederate General Lee defeated—ending
his attempt to invade the North
Nearly 50,000 casualties and losses total
RESULT: Decisive Union victory
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Naval strategy by Lincoln and the Union to
take control of Confederate ports
3,500 miles of Gulf and Atlantic coast
New Orleans, Mobile, and other port cities
were slowly blocked from trading
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May 18th-July 4th, 1863
Critical battle for control of the Mississippi
RESULT: Grant (Union general) won the
surrounding region and effectively cut off
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi
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November-December, 1864
Destructive civilian campaign in Georgia
General William T. Sherman led a 300-mile
march
RESULT: decisive psychological victory for the
Union, destruction of land and property in the
South
Population:
22,300,000
9,100,000 (3.5 million
slaves)
Factories:
110,000
18,000
Shipping (tonnage):
4,600,000
290,000
Workers:
1,300,000
110,000
Cotton Production:
43,000 bales
5,344,000 bales
Wheat and Corn Production:
698,000,000 bushels
314,000,000 bushels
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Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863)
Decisive Union victories (1863: Gettysburg,
Vicksburg; 1864: Sherman’s March)
Confederacy running out of supplies
Lincoln re-elected (1864)
Confederacy surrenders (1865)
Lincoln assassinated (1865)
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Women and slaves took
on many home front
jobs
Insubordination
Unrest in poor southern
communities
Thousands of slaves
fled to Union lines
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Deaths
Home-front suffers (more in the South)
Union victory
Confederacy surrendered
Resources depleted
End of slavery (on paper)
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http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/
units/9/video/