Download the civil war

1st Quarter:
Using Handout, 11-1 and textbook pg.
338. Analyze the graphs and then
answer the following questions.
oWhich side, the Union or Confederacy,
had an advantage based on Industrial
Production?
oWhat side do you believe will win the
war and why?
Key Legislation on
the Issue of Slavery
-How the Union repeatedly tried not
to get a divorce
Union:
• 23 states
• 22 million people
• 80% of nation’s factories
• 90% of nation’s skilled
workers
• Extensive railroad
power and naval system
• 70% of the nation’s
wealth
• Few experienced
military leaders
Confederacy
• 11 states + bordering
territories
• 9 million people (3.5
were slaves)
• Agrarian society
• Less than 30% of
nation’s railroad
• Dependent on
imports, cannot tax
citizens directly
• Superior military
leadership
Key Legislation on the issue of Slavery
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Maine admitted as free state
• Missouri admitted as a slave
– Preserves sectional balance in the senate
b/w slave states and free states
• Louisiana Territory divided in ½ @
the 36”30’
– North of the line is free
– South of the line is slave
Wilmont Proviso (1846)
• After war w/ Mexico & Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
– California, Utah, New Mexico are closed
to slavery forever
• Argument b/w free-soilers and slave
owners
– Free-soilers do not own slaves, farm, and
are against the institution of slavery
Compromise of 1850
• California admitted to the Union as a
free state
• Utah and New Mexico territories
decide about slavery
• Sale of slaves banned in D.C.
• Fugitive Slave Act required people in
free states to help capture and
return escaped slaves
• Establishes Popular Sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
• The right of residents of a territory
to vote for or against slavery when
becoming a state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Divides territory in ½
– Nebraska to the North
– Kansas to the South
• Repeals the Missouri Compromise
• Tests the policy of popular
sovereignty
– Violence erupts
– People are murdered
– Nicknamed “Bleeding Kansas
Homework Activity - Researching the Civil War
oIf you want a 'C' Just Research:
•The 4 battles on 11-Ft. Sumter, Bull Run, Shiloh,
Antietam
oIf you want a 'B' Just Research:
•the 4 battles on 11, and explain the significance
of the Anaconda Plan and David G. Farragut.
oIf you want a 'A' Just Research:
•the 4 battles on 11, and explain the significance
of the Anaconda Plan and David G. Farragut.
•And the Battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
RAM Block
PICTURE WALK
“A house divided cannot stand”
THE CIVIL WAR
- Abraham Lincoln
Causes of Civil War
• Long-Term Causes
• Conflict over Slavery
in territories
• Economic differences
b/w North and South
– Tariffs of 1816, 1828,
1832
• Conflict b/w states’
rights and Fed.
Control
– Tariffs, slavery
• Immediate Cause
• Election of Lincoln
– South feels that their
political voice will no
longer be heard
• Secession of Southern
States
• Firing on Ft. Sumter
The Civil War
• Key Battles
• Shiloh
– Both sides realized
the war was going to
be long, need to send
out scouts, dig
trenches, build
fortifications
• Gettysburg
– Turning Point of War
– Crippled Lee’s Army
• Gettysburg
Address
– North will now
fight the war to end
slavery
• Emancipation
Proclamation
– Freed all slaves
behind confederate
lines
Immediate Effects
• Abolition of Slavery
• Widening gap b/w northern and
southern economies
• South is physically destroyed
– Sherman's March
• Reunification of the country
Long-term Effects
• Reconstruction of the South
• Industrial Boom
• Increased Federal Authority
1st Quarter
1.) What is a carpetbagger?
2.) What is a scallywag?
3.) Looking at p. , how does the political
cartoon depict the carpetbagger?
“If you build it, they will come…”
RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION
4 CORNERS
Reconstruction & Its Effects
• The period after the Civil War where
the Federal gov’t rebuilt the South
&
The process that the Fed. Gov’t used
to readmit the Confederate states
back into the Union
Foundations
• President Lincoln & Johnson
proposed lenient policies toward the
former Confederate states
– Lincoln did not want to punish the
south!
– John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln
Foundations
• Radical Republicans gain control of
Congress and pass the
Reconstruction Act of 1867
– Abolished Gov'ts formed in the former
Confederate states
– Divided those states into five military
districts
– Setup process for states readmission to
Union
Foundations
• Conflict over approach to
reconstruction leads Congress to
impeach Johnson
Progress
• States ratify the 14th & 15th
Amendments
– 14th- Makes all persons citizens “born
or naturalized in the US”
– 15th- No one can be kept from voting b/c
of “race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.”
Progress
• Republicans control most state
gov’ts in the South
• States start public works programs
and public schools
• Former slaves reunite families, work
for wages, and build A.A. culture.
Collapse
• War debt and low demand for cotton
slow the South’s recovery
– North and Britain no longer need
Southern cotton
• A.A. terrorized by racial violence
– The Ku Klux Klan formed 1866
– Group membership spread rapidly
• Goal to restore white supremacy
Collapse
• Supreme Court decisions undermine 14th
& 15th amendments
• Rep. Party is weakened by internal
conflicts, scandal, and financial panic
• Republicans withdraw troops from the
South to get Hayes the presidency in 1876
• Democrats control the gov’ts, weaken
civil rights, & eliminate public school &
programs
Sharecropping (The New
Slavery)
• Copy chart from board.
Civil War Letter
1) Assume the role of a Civil War key figure.
2) Write a letter depicting your current situation
or intentions.
3) Letters must be historically accurate (i.e. KKK
member will not apologize for black codes)
Key figures ideas:
Lincoln
Red Cross nurse ScalLywag
Johnson
Radical Republican
KKK member
Carpetbagger