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UNIT 7: MILITARY
CONFLICT
LESSON 7.5:
Part 4: Life During the War and
Turning Points
LIFE DURING THE WAR
Focus
• In your Journal, summarize what you have
learned about the early stages of the Civil War.
• What was the significance of the first Battle of
Bull Run?
• How did the battle of Shiloh influence general
grants reputation?
• Why did lee decide to invade the north?
• What is the significance of the Battle of
Antietam?
desertion
THE WARTIME ECONOMIES
• BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH STRUGGLED
TO KEEP THEIR ECONOMIES GOING
• SOUTH= FEWER FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND
LITTLE INDUSTRY= INFLATION AND SHORTAGES
• NORTH = SUPPORTED BY BANKS AND INDUSTRIES,
WAS ABLE TO RESPOND TO CHANGES BY WAR
SOUTHERN SHORTAGES
• BY END OF 1862, UNION FORCES HAD DESTROYED THE
SOUTHS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
• WITH UNION TROOPS IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT
AGRICULTURAL REGIONS, SOUTH = FOOD SHORTAGES
• MORALE LOW
• MANY SOLDIERS DESERTED TO HELP THEIR FAMILIES
• FOOD SHORTAGES LED TO RIOTS IN SOUTH
• Primary source doc. from Salsbury= impact of blockade
UNION: WAR BOOM
• NORTHERN FACTORIES SUPPLIED TROOPS W/ AMMUNITION,
CLOTHES, AND OTHER NECESSITIES
• NORTHERN FARMERS USED MECHANIZED REAPERS AND
MOWERS = FARMING POSSIBLE W/ FEWER WORKERS
• WOMEN WORKED IN INDUSTRIES TO FILL LABOR
SHORTAGES THERE
AP 1
• Once sentence
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MILITARY
• THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OFFICIALLY ALLOWED
AFRICAN AMERICANS TO ENLIST IN THE UNION
• THE 54TH MASSACHUSSETTS WAS AMONG THE FIRST
AFRICAN AMERICAN REGIMENTS
• THE 54TH LOST HALF ITS SOLDIERS IN BATTLE. ITS BRAVERY
PROOF THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS MADE GREAT SOLDIERS
AP 2
• Once sentence
MILITARY LIFE
• BOTH UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS SUFFERED
HARDSHIPS.
• SOME SOUTHERNERS HAD NO BLANKETS, MARCHED
BAREFOOT
• FOOD SCARCE = HARDTACK
BATTLEFIELD MEDICINE
• THE WAR PRODUCED HUGE NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES
• DOCTORS DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GERMS = INFECTIONS
SPREAD QUICKLY
• DISEASES SUCH AS SMALLPOX, DYSENTARY, PNEUMONIA
WERE GRAVE THREATS
WOMEN SERVED AS NURSES
• ELIZABETH BLACKWELL STARTED FIRST TRAINING
PROGRAM FOR NURSES
• UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION = PROVIDED
MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND HELP TO ARMY CAMPS AND HOSP.
PRISONERS OF WAR
• AT FIRST, THE UNION AND CONFEDERATES AGREED TO
PRISONER EXCHANGES
• SOUTHERN REACTION TO EMANCIPATION PROCLOMATION
LED TO LINCOLN REFUSING PRISONER EXCHANGES
• THE SOUTH, SUFFERING FROM FOOD SHORTAGE, COULD
NOT CARE FOR PRISONERS
• PRISONERS DIED FROM STAVATION, EXPOSURE, DISEASE,
AND OVERCROWDING = ANDERSONVILLE
AP 3
• One sentence
THE TURNING POINTS
• “VICKSBURG IS KEY” =
CAPTURING VICKSBURG
WOULD CUT SOUTH IN 2
AND ENSURE A VICTORY
FOR UNION
• THE “SIEGE OF
VICKSBURG” LED TO A
CONFEDERATE
SURRENDER ON JULY 4.
1863.
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THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
JULY 1-3 1863.
BLOODIEST BATTLE OF
THE CIVIL WAR
Read 339
FINAL DAY = PICKETTS
CHARGE LED TO 7,000
CASUALTIES
“OLD VIRGINIA”
GETTYSBURG-CONTINUED
• PROVED TO BE THE
TURNING POINT OF THE
WAR
• STRENGTHENED
REPUBLICANS
• BRITAIN WOULD NOT
RECOGNIZE
CONFEDERACY
• LEE WOULD BE FORCED TO
FIGHT A DEFENSIVE WAR
AP 4
• One sentence
ACTIVITY
• EXAMINE “THE GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS” ON PAGES 338 AND 339.
• ANSWER QUESTIONS 1,2
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25HHV
DOaGeE
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Learning Log
• SUMMARIZE IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT YOU HAVE
LEARNED TODAY…
• WHY DID SOUTHERN MORALE BEGIN TO SUFFER BY THE
END OF 1862?
• SUMMARIZE THE REASON’S FOR THE NORTH’S ECONOMIC
BOOM DURING THE WAR.
• WHY WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE 54TH
MASSACHUSSETTS SIGNIFICANT FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS?
• WHAT WERE SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN
DURING THE WAR?
• WHY WAS CAPTURING VICKSBURG IMPORTANT TO THE
UNION?
• HOW WAS GETTYSBURG A TURNING POINT IN THE WAR?