The Road to Secession
... The "King Cotton" mentality was seriously flawed, not the least in overestimating the value of "white gold." First, a bumper crop in 1860 had glutted the marketplace, lowering prices and allowing mill owners to stockpile. Cotton prices did rise sharply late in 1861, but workers, not owners, suffered ...
... The "King Cotton" mentality was seriously flawed, not the least in overestimating the value of "white gold." First, a bumper crop in 1860 had glutted the marketplace, lowering prices and allowing mill owners to stockpile. Cotton prices did rise sharply late in 1861, but workers, not owners, suffered ...
FCOE TAH Lesson Plan Template
... lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." ...
... lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." ...
Chapter 15 - Your History Site
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
A MORAL ACCOUNTING OF THE UNION AND THE CONFEDERACY
... emancipation would be worse for both blacks and whites than would be the maintenance of the institution itself. Third, he recognizes that slavery was an unfortunate inheritance from British colonialism. Insofar as Lincoln had any solution to the problem, it was threefold: (l) gradual emancipation ac ...
... emancipation would be worse for both blacks and whites than would be the maintenance of the institution itself. Third, he recognizes that slavery was an unfortunate inheritance from British colonialism. Insofar as Lincoln had any solution to the problem, it was threefold: (l) gradual emancipation ac ...
Unit 5 Calendar
... and created an internal revenue bureau to collect these taxes, drafted men into the army, expanded the jurisdiction of the federal courts, created a national currency and a national banking system, and established the first national agency for social welfare—the Freedmen’s Bureau. . . . These change ...
... and created an internal revenue bureau to collect these taxes, drafted men into the army, expanded the jurisdiction of the federal courts, created a national currency and a national banking system, and established the first national agency for social welfare—the Freedmen’s Bureau. . . . These change ...
From SLAVERY to FREEDOM - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
... guns on Fort Sumter in April 1861. By the time Robert E. Lee surrendered his army four years later, hundreds of thousands of enslaved women, men, and children had fled the South’s farms, plantations, and factories. Union commanders at first routinely turned them away, and many continued to do so eve ...
... guns on Fort Sumter in April 1861. By the time Robert E. Lee surrendered his army four years later, hundreds of thousands of enslaved women, men, and children had fled the South’s farms, plantations, and factories. Union commanders at first routinely turned them away, and many continued to do so eve ...
Civil War Communications and Cryptology
... For chief of the CCH, the Director selected David W. Gaddy, a long-time senior official whose interest in history was known. In addition to providing leadership that brought the new organization safely through bureaucratic ...
... For chief of the CCH, the Director selected David W. Gaddy, a long-time senior official whose interest in history was known. In addition to providing leadership that brought the new organization safely through bureaucratic ...
The End is Near: The Civil War in 1864
... So as April 9, 2015 looms ever so close on the horizon, marking the 150th anniversary of the war’s end, meditate over how Americans felt in 1865 as February turned to March. We know now that the end of the war was coming at that time. We know now when things began to fall apart for Robert E. Lee an ...
... So as April 9, 2015 looms ever so close on the horizon, marking the 150th anniversary of the war’s end, meditate over how Americans felt in 1865 as February turned to March. We know now that the end of the war was coming at that time. We know now when things began to fall apart for Robert E. Lee an ...
Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861–1865
... war resistance affected the war effort, and the internal disintegration of the Confederacy was furthered by disastrous defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. It was in this atmosphere that southern peace movements emerged, more anti-Davis representatives were elected to the Confederate Congress, and ...
... war resistance affected the war effort, and the internal disintegration of the Confederacy was furthered by disastrous defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. It was in this atmosphere that southern peace movements emerged, more anti-Davis representatives were elected to the Confederate Congress, and ...
Chapter 15: Road to Civil War, 1820-1861
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
Chapter 15: Road to Civil War, 1820-1861
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
Chapter 15: Road to Civil War, 1820-1861
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
... The territories involved were Texas, which had won its independence from Mexico in 1836, and New Mexico and California, which were still part of Mexico. Many Southerners hoped to see Texas, where slavery already existed, join the Union. As a result, the annexation of Texas became the main issue in t ...
Kennedy Assessment Index
... this constitute a failure of leadership on their part? How? Why? MAKE YOUR CASE! 4. “The debate over the expansion of slavery westward was unavoidably and inextricably bound to the continuance of slavery itself in the United States.” Who would have insisted on this point and why? What evidence would ...
... this constitute a failure of leadership on their part? How? Why? MAKE YOUR CASE! 4. “The debate over the expansion of slavery westward was unavoidably and inextricably bound to the continuance of slavery itself in the United States.” Who would have insisted on this point and why? What evidence would ...
The War Between the Barbates - Proceedings of the Natural Institute
... were also styles with big disparities, like short beard (29 Union to 12 Confederate), clean shaven (5 Union to 14 Confederate), and the muttonchop derivations (14 Union to 4 Confederate). We see an important difference between the North and South. Northern officers tended to sport the styles that re ...
... were also styles with big disparities, like short beard (29 Union to 12 Confederate), clean shaven (5 Union to 14 Confederate), and the muttonchop derivations (14 Union to 4 Confederate). We see an important difference between the North and South. Northern officers tended to sport the styles that re ...
Abraham Lincoln
... lawyer. Later, Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate, he did not win but he did gain national recognition for his arguments against slavery during the debates. In 1860, Lincoln ran for President of the United States. He was a member of the fairly new Republican party which strongly opposed allowing any o ...
... lawyer. Later, Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate, he did not win but he did gain national recognition for his arguments against slavery during the debates. In 1860, Lincoln ran for President of the United States. He was a member of the fairly new Republican party which strongly opposed allowing any o ...
A Change in Tactics: Hard War in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
... battles took place between September 19 and October 19 of 1864. 6 The Shenandoah Valley is the northern portion of the more extensive Great Valley of Virginia, which is a small portion of the Great Appalachian Valley that runs for over twelve hundred miles from Quebec, Canada, to the state of Alabam ...
... battles took place between September 19 and October 19 of 1864. 6 The Shenandoah Valley is the northern portion of the more extensive Great Valley of Virginia, which is a small portion of the Great Appalachian Valley that runs for over twelve hundred miles from Quebec, Canada, to the state of Alabam ...
WV Facts Brochure - West Virginia Department of Commerce
... stored on the top floor of the building. The ammunition had been purchased for use in the coal field disputes, which had threatened to erupt into civil war. Supposedly several machine guns and rifles also were stored in the capitol, so when the heat from the fire set off the ammunition, the smoke co ...
... stored on the top floor of the building. The ammunition had been purchased for use in the coal field disputes, which had threatened to erupt into civil war. Supposedly several machine guns and rifles also were stored in the capitol, so when the heat from the fire set off the ammunition, the smoke co ...
Renewed Vigor: How the Confederate retaliatory burning
... attack the enemy’s industries and centers of population inaccessible from their armies.17 Not until 1948 was the term first applied to the Civil War by John B. Walters’ article, “General William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War,” published in the Journal of Southern History.18 However, during this tim ...
... attack the enemy’s industries and centers of population inaccessible from their armies.17 Not until 1948 was the term first applied to the Civil War by John B. Walters’ article, “General William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War,” published in the Journal of Southern History.18 However, during this tim ...
Caddie Studdy Buddy HOME
... The Gettysburg Address Four Score and Seven Years Ago takes its title from the first sentence of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In 1863, the United States was in the middle of a CIVIL WAR. (A CIVIL WAR is a war fought between two groups of people that live in the same country.) On J ...
... The Gettysburg Address Four Score and Seven Years Ago takes its title from the first sentence of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In 1863, the United States was in the middle of a CIVIL WAR. (A CIVIL WAR is a war fought between two groups of people that live in the same country.) On J ...
Chronology of the Civil War in Prince William County
... Virginia Convention passed an ordinance of secession. The citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia voted overwhelmingly to ratify succession from the Union on May 23, 1861, officially making the commonwealth and Prince William County a part of the Confederacy. With that act, the war in Virginia bega ...
... Virginia Convention passed an ordinance of secession. The citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia voted overwhelmingly to ratify succession from the Union on May 23, 1861, officially making the commonwealth and Prince William County a part of the Confederacy. With that act, the war in Virginia bega ...
History 113: The American Civil War
... collapse of slavery–as slaves ran away by the thousands–and the disintegration of the southern economy slowly undermined the southern war effort; the fate of African American slaves, and later freedmen, was a central issue in Northern politics during and after the war. The place of slavery and Afric ...
... collapse of slavery–as slaves ran away by the thousands–and the disintegration of the southern economy slowly undermined the southern war effort; the fate of African American slaves, and later freedmen, was a central issue in Northern politics during and after the war. The place of slavery and Afric ...
The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863
... and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. ...
... and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. ...
Rob The Banks! The Missouri Guerrilla War 1860
... In March 1861, the new state Governor of Missouri, the majority of the legislature, and the State Militia were all pro-secessionist. They demanded the turn-over of the Federal arsenal in St. Louis, which was refused. Street fighting broke out in St. Louis between radical Republican "Wide Awakes" (mo ...
... In March 1861, the new state Governor of Missouri, the majority of the legislature, and the State Militia were all pro-secessionist. They demanded the turn-over of the Federal arsenal in St. Louis, which was refused. Street fighting broke out in St. Louis between radical Republican "Wide Awakes" (mo ...
Chapter 21 - BFHS
... the Army of the Potomac. Hating to sacrifice his troops, he was idolized by his men, who affectionately called him “Little Mac.” But he was a perfectionist who seems not to have realized that an army is never ready to the last button and that wars cannot be won without running some risks. He consist ...
... the Army of the Potomac. Hating to sacrifice his troops, he was idolized by his men, who affectionately called him “Little Mac.” But he was a perfectionist who seems not to have realized that an army is never ready to the last button and that wars cannot be won without running some risks. He consist ...
Virginia in the American Civil War
The Commonwealth of Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. A slave state, a convention was called to act for the state during the secession crisis opened on February 13, 1861, after seven seceding states had formed the Confederacy on February 4. Unionist delegates dominated the convention and defeated a motion to secede on April 4. The convention deliberated for several months, but on April 15 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union in response to the Confederate capture of Fort Sumter. On April 17, the Virginia convention voted to declare secession from the Union, pending ratification of the decision by the voters.With the entry of Virginia into the Confederacy, a decision was made in May to move the Confederate capital from Montgomery, Alabama, to Richmond, in part because the defense of Virginia's capital was deemed strategically vital to the Confederacy's survival regardless of its political status. Virginians ratified the articles of secession on May 23. The following day, the Union army moved into northern Virginia and captured Alexandria without a fight.Most of the battles in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War took place in Virginia because the Confederacy had to defend its national capital at Richmond, and public opinion in the North demanded that the Union move ""On to Richmond!"" The remarkable success of Robert E. Lee in defending Richmond is a central theme of the military history of the war. The White House of the Confederacy, located a few blocks north of the State Capitol, was home to the family of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.