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Lesson 49
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What happened at the Battle of Bull Run? Were the people of Washington D.C. going
to a picnic? What was Bull Run? Why did the North have good reason for believing
they would quickly win the war? What advantages did the South have in the Civil
War? What was the outcome of the battle at Bull Run? What happened at the Battle
of Shiloh? Why was the Civil War called a war of “Brothers against Brothers”?
Motivation:
It was a bright sunny day in July of 1861. In Washington D.C. smiling men and
women climbed into horse-drawn carriages with baskets of food. They looked as
though they were going to a picnic. These people were going to watch a battle. The
North expected to win this battle would quickly end the war and the South’s
rebellion. The North had a far larger population than the South. It had more people
who could fight as soldiers, work in factories and grow food. The North had many
more factories. It could make more guns and cannons. The North had many more
miles of railroad. It could get soldiers, guns, cannons and food to the front faster
than the South could. The North had ships. The ships could block supplies from
reaching the Southern coast. The South had excellent leadership in the Army. The
South had determination to protect their way of life. The South had knowledge of
the land in which they were fighting. The North suffered a crushing defeat. The
Southern Army sent the Northerners fleeing back to Washington DC.. Everyone,
including the picnickers rushed to escape as cannon fire roared overhead! The South
won this battle…people on both sides saw that it would be a long, hard war. The
Battle of Shiloh took place over a period of two days in April of 1862. The war had
been ongoing for almost two years. Grant continued his drive into the South. Grant
waited for reinforcements and while waiting, the Confederate troops attacked Grant
and his men. Johnston, the Confederate’s leader was killed. Grant, attacked the
Confederates the next morning and it was too much for the Confederate’s. The
North’s Union army overwhelmed the Confederates. The North had won! All wars
are terrible, but the Civil War was terrible in a different way. It was not a war
between countries, it was a war fought between groups of people from the same
country. Families were torn apart.
CQ’s/ Notes:
Watch: War Strategy for the North (1 min)
1. How does the Anaconda kill its prey?
a. The Anaconda is a South American snake
b. It kills its snake by coiling itself around its prey and slowly squeezes
the life out of it.
c. The North adopted the “Conda Plan”, named after the Anaconda
snake.
2. How was the “Conda Plan” used on the Civil War?
a. The North slowly “squeezed” the life out of the South by using a few
methods.
3. How did blockades help the North?
a. The South’s only resource was cotton.
b. The South needed to trade its cotton for guns and cannons.
c. The North’s ships blockaded southern harbors on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
d. These ships kept out goods meant for the South from other countries.
4. How else did the North “squeeze” the South?
a. The Northern Army and Navy captured towns along the Mississippi
River.
b. The Mississippi River separates the western part of the Confederacy
from the eastern part.
c. The South could not move armies and supplies from one part to the
other. The North trapped them!
d. The North planned to capture Richmond, Va. The South’s capitol.
e. Also, the Northern armies destroyed roads, bridges and railways in
the South
Watch: War Strategy for the South (1 min)
5. What was the strategy the South used in the Civil War?
a. The South was hoping for two things in this war,
i. Help from other countries, countries like Great Britain and
France as theses countries relied on the South for cotton.
ii. Take over the North’s capitol, Washington D.C.
6. Who were some of the most famous generals in the Civil War?
a. The South (Confederacy) had General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson.
b. The North started to win the war once Ulysses S. Grant led the
Northern Armies.
7. Why was the North fighting this war?
a. The North was fighting to preserve the Union. Preserve the United
States of America
b. The North was also fighting to end slavery.
c. The North was also fighting to allow for the growth of business.
8. How did President Lincoln feel about slavery?
a. Lincoln hated slavery and thought it was wrong, but he also thought
that ending slavery might divide the country.
b. Lincoln also knew that the Northerners would be encouraged to fight
harder if they knew they were fighting to end slavery.
Watch: The Emancipation Proclamation (1 min)
9. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
a. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed an order called the Emancipation
Proclamation.
b. It prohibited slavery in the states still fighting for the Union, (North).
c. The Proclamation led to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution,
which legally abolished slavery throughout this country.
Watch: The Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation (3 min)
10. How did the Blacks feel with regards to the Emancipation Proclamation?
a. The Emancipation Proclamation invited Blacks to fight with the
Northern forces.
b. Thousands of Blacks signed up in the Union’s army & navy.
c. By the end of the war, more than 200,000 blacks had fought in some
of the war’s bloodiest battles.
d. Twenty Black soldiers won the Medal of Honor, (America’s highest
award for bravery).
e. About 38,000 Black soldiers died in the fighting.
11. How did England feel about Slavery?
a. England did not believe in slavery and therefore the South lost the
possibility of their support.
b. England was also angered because the South was not supplying
enough cotton.
c. In England, people were losing jobs because there was no cotton to
work with
HW: Answer CQ’s and E-mail.