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Drill 10/28
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What made Baltimore such a divided city at
the dawn of the Civil War?
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Maryland was a “border state”
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A southern slave state that did not break from the
union
Mayor of Baltimore – Pro-South
Police Chief – Pro South
Governor of MD – Pro-Union
Result of the Riots
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Union troops enter Baltimore and it is put under
Martial (Military) Law
Lincoln and the MD Governor suspend habeas
corpus
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Pro-Confederate legislators are kept out of commission
MD “votes” to stay in the union
Why was it so important that MD stay in the Union
after Virginia had left?
Objective: SWBAT
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Analyze both the social and political effects
of the Emancipation Proclamation
Identify key people in the Civil War
Drill 10/29
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What were the immediate POLITICAL effects
of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Drill 10/29
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The Emancipation MADE slavery a key issue
of the war
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To support the south now meant you were actively
supporting slavery
Any foreign influence that the CSA could have
hoped to get was now lost
In the north it raised questions of equality
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Freedom was one thing, equality was something
WHOLLLY different
Objective: SWBAT
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Identify key terminology and figures of the
Civil War
The Civil War EAST vs. West?
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Very little activity takes place north of the
Mason Dixon line
So historians have divided the “theaters” of
the civil war into East and West
Eastern Theater
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Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania
Western Theater
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The deep South, Texas, Arkansas
The Civil War
Important Figures
Union – George B McClellan
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Organizer of the “Army of the
Potomac”
General-in-chief of the Union Army
(11/1861-3/1862)
Important Battles
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Peninsular Campaign
Maryland
Antietam
Suffered numerous defeats early on,
would be fired
“If General McClellan does not wish
to use the army, then I suggest he
give it to me for a time”
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Lincoln
Union – Wm. Tecumseh Sherman
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Major General
Commander of forces in the
Western Theater
Important Battles
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Shiloh
Vicksburg
Chattanooga
The March to the Sea
Proponent of “scorched Earth”
tactics
Total War against the South
Confederate – Thomas Jonathan
“Stonewall” Jackson
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Major General
Earned his nickname at Bull
Run (First Manassas)
Important Battles
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Bull Run (First Manassas)
Valley Campaign
Northern Virginia Campaign
MD Campaign
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Antietam
Chancellorsville
Vicksburg
Confederate – Robert E. Lee
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General – Army of Northern
Virginia
Highest ranking general in the
CSA
Most respected military figure in
the South and North
Long military history
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Ancestor signed the Declaration of
Independence
Important Battles
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Siege if Richmond
Northern VA campaigns
Gettysburg
CW – The Civil War Begins
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This was to be your homework yesterday –
sorry for the repeating Guided Readings in
class
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Work with a partner if you like.
Recap
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We have discussed and your book has told
you why Lee was considered such an
important person.
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What did a person like Le
Drill 10/30
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Identify the following
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McClellan
Sherman
Jackson
Lee
Objective: SWBAT
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Identify key battles of the Civil War
Analyze the key turning point in the war
The dawn of War
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Lincoln and the Federal Government is still
hoping to end this with as little bloodshed as
possible
The Naval Blockade of the South
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“The Anaconda Plan”
Limit the supplies, making them unable to fight
The Union struggles in the east
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Confederate – Army of Northern Virginia
(AoNV)
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Lee
Union – Army of the Potomac (AotP)
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McClellan
Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Maj. Gen John Hooker
Maj. Gen. George Meade
The Union Struggles in the East
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The Union went through so
many generals because none
could defeat Lee
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Lee secured key victories
proving he was a superior
general even with inferior forces
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Emboldened by these victories
Lee would strike the Union
Battle of Antietam (9/17/1862)
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Near Sharpsburg, MD
AotP – 87,000 troops
AoNV – 45,000 troops
Single bloodiest day in American military
history
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Over 23,000 casualties
7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Antietam
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The first battle on Northern soil
McClellan is able to withstand Lee’s army
and send them back into Virginia
McClellan refused to pursue them
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Lee’s army remained unbroken
Lincoln fires McClellan for his failure
Classwork – Let’s try this mapping
thing again
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I know, you already saw this map – bear with
me
Today and tomorrow we will be using this
map to track battles
Today you are going to focus on the Eastern
Theater
Classwork- Eastern Theater battles
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Using your books (pg 176 - )
On the map locate the battle and identify the result and
date(s) of the following battles
 Identify
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First Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Fredricksburg
Seven Day’s Battle
Antietam
On the back answer these questions:
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Why did the failure at Antietam cause Lincoln to fire
McClellan? Did Lincoln’s initial desire for a lack of
bloodshed play into McClellan’s actions?
Drill 10/30
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Why did Lincoln end up firing McClellan?
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McClellan was reluctant to directly engage Robert
E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, angering
Lincoln.
Objective: SWBAT
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Identify key union victories in the West
Analyze the effects of Sherman’s “March to
the Sea” on the current and post-war
Southern Economy.
The Western Theater
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For all the trouble that the Union was having
in the East they were succeeding in the West
Other Confederate generals (such as
Braxton Bragg) made multiple tactical errors
Grant made Bragg pay for these mistakes
Grant’s Western campaign
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Beginning with a narrow victory at Shiloh
(TN)
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Another 100,000 casualties
A series of crushing victories for the Union
Grant’s forces drove down the Western half
of the Confederacy
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The goal was to cut the confederacy in half and
sieze the largest city and port, New Orleans
Grants success
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Grant’s campaign began in February, 1862 in
TN
By June of 1862 Grant’s army had control of
New Orleans
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Effectively cutting off the Confederacy’s largest
port
The confederacy would be increasingly cut-off
from necessary trade and supplies as the war
dragged on
CW today – complete the maps we
were working on yesterday
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Finish outlining the Eastern Front battles
from yesterday
Also, look on the board for the list of battles
in the Western Front and the additional
questions on the back
Also, get out the Guided Reading 4.2 That
will be collected at the end of the day
Classwork- Eastern Theater battles
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Using your books (pg 176 - )
On the map locate the battle and identify the result and
date(s) of the following battles
 Identify
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First Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Fredricksburg
Seven Day’s Battle
Antietam
On the back answer these questions:
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Why did the failure at Antietam cause Lincoln to fire
McClellan? Did Lincoln’s initial desire for a lack of
bloodshed play into McClellan’s actions?
Drill 11/7
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What is guerilla war? Why were the Federal
Forces so afraid of the prospect of Guerilla
War in the south?
Objective: SWBAT
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Analyze the immediate impact of Abraham
Lincoln’s assassination on North/ South
Relations
The Assassination of Lincoln
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April 14, 1865
The first successful assassination of a sitting
President
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The first attempt was against Andrew Jackson in
1826
Ford’s Theater, Washington DC
The Conspirators
George Atzerodt
Louis Powell
John Wilkes Booth
The first plot
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1865
Lincoln easily wins re-election
The Confederacy is failing
The Southern sympathizers are growing
nervous
US Grant had ended the system of prisoner
exchange
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Hurting the south’s ability to replenish troops
The first plot
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Booth and his conspirators plan to kidnap the
President in order to exchange him for
Confederate prisoners
On March 17, 1865 Lincoln was supposed to
be seeing a production of Still Waters Run
Deep at a military hospital
Lincoln’s planned changed and the plot failed
It becomes assassination
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Booth will kill Lincoln
Powell will be assigned to kill William Seward
Atzerodt is told to kill Andrew Johnson
April 14, 1865
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Lincoln will be attending a production of Our
American Cousin
Booth plans well
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He knows the layout of the theater
He knows the side-streets of DC
His escape route has been planned
He has more conspirators waiting for him in southern MD
They will all strike simultaneously just after 10pm
The conspirators will escape to safety in Virginia
The Assassination
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Lincoln is shot once in the back of the head
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Louis Powell breaks into Seward’s room and stabs
him multiple times
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Booth leaps down from the box, breaking his leg in the
process
Stands center-stage and shouts “Sic Semper Tyranus”
(Thus always to tyrants)
Seward is unharmed due to a metal brace
Atzerodt gets cold feet and never attempts to kill
Johnson
CW: The Reaction
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Short BCR – write on your homework from
last night
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Lincoln was coming under fire from the
political north for taking a soft stance on
Reconstruction. How would the
assassination of Lincoln effect the
negotiations surrounding reconstruction?
The escape
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Booth rides fast to the southern bridge
leaving the city
Another conspirator David Herold is waiting
for him
Booth needs medical attention
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They find a doctor, Henry Mudd, he sets the leg
Federal Authorities will chase Booth for 12
days through Southern MD and VA
The Trial
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Booth does not live to see trial
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Powell is captured at the tavern of Mary Suratt in
Surattsville, MD
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He is killed in a standoff with Union troops
She calims she doesn’t know him – this is a lie she is
arrested
Atzerodt is caught in DC
Nearly a dozen people are arrested, the government
focuses on eight suspects
The Trial
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Suratt, Powell, Herold and Atzerodt are
sentenced to death by hanging
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The first woman executed by the US government
Others, including Dr. Samuel Mudd are
sentenced to life in Prison
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Though they will be pardoned the following year
Drill 11/10
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What were Booth’s reasons for shooting
Lincoln
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Hoped to “decapitate” the Federal Government
this would but the CSA time to regroup
Lincoln’s views toward African-American
citizenship did not help matters
Objective: SWBAT
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Identify the first phases of Reconstruction in
America
Analyze the impact of Radical republicanism
on Reconstruction
The end of the war
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Two major surrenders
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
Courthouse
Johnston surrenders to Sherman at Greensboro,
NC
War effectively over
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Some in the Confederate government holding out
Fighting in Texas
How do we rebuild
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RECONSTRUCTION
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Period in American history describing the attempt
to rebuild the country after the Civil War
1863-1877
Main issues
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How do the Confederate States regain their
place in government?
How will former Confederates be treated?
What is the status of “Freedmen”
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Freedmen – the name given to former slaves
during the Reconstruction Era
Three Phases of Reconstruction
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Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1866)
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Radical Reconstruction (1866-1872)
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Controlled by Lincoln and then Johnson
Controlled by the “Radical” faction of the
Republican Party
Southern Reconstruction (“Redemption”)
(1873-1877)
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South regains complete control
Radical Republicanism
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Thaddeus Stevens
One of the more powerful Republicans in
congress
Fervent abolitionist
Anti-south
Drill 11/11
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What are the three major issues involved
with Reconstruction?
Main issues
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How do the Confederate States regain their
place in government?
How will former Confederates be treated?
What is the status of “Freedmen”
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Freedmen – the name given to former slaves
during the Reconstruction Era
Objective: SWBAT
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Compare, Contrast the three plans at the
beginning of the Reconstruction Era
Analyze the impact of Lincoln’s assassination
on Reconstruction efforts
Review Thaddeus Stevens
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Thaddeus Stevens
One of the more powerful Republicans in congress
Fervent abolitionist
Anti-south
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Holds the south solely responsible for the war and union
lives lost
Wants to make them pay
Stevens is emblematic of typical Radical
Republicanism at the time
The Reconstruction debate
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With a partner read the handout and answer the
following questions:
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Describe Lincoln’s plan, the Wade-Davis Bill and Johnson’s
plan
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Of the three which is the most harsh, which is most lenient and
why?
What is Lincoln’s reaction to the Wade – Davis Bill? How
does Congress answer?
How does Lincoln’s assassination impact the debate?
Predict: Why does Johnson soften his views during his
Presidency?
REVIEW
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Complete the Review assignments for
sections 4.1,2 and 3
On the back of each complete the Critical
Thinking
Also with two partners, compile a short list of
four (4) ESSAY questions that you feel
someone SHOULD know.