11/5/15
WARM-UP: How many photographs would
you estimate you take in a week? What
kinds of photos do you take and why do
you take them?
Read Chapters 20 & 21; Historical Terms
Quiz Tuesday 11/10; Create a DBQ
Thursday 11/13
SWBAT: Analyze photographs to make
inferences about the Civil War.
Lincoln & McClellan, 1862
“Harvest of Death”, 1863
D.C., Company E, 4th U.S. Colored
Infantry, at Fort Lincoln
“Ruins of Charleston, SC 1866
Gettysburg, 1863
“Cold Harbor, VA African Americans
Collecting Bones of Soldiers Killed in Battle”
1865
11/6/15
Warm-up: Study the data in the inside of
your Civil War Photography handout from
last class. What information seems
particularly important in explaining the
Union victory?
SWBAT: Describe the beginning of the Civil
War; analyze the Emancipation
Proclamation to explain the politics of
America’s Bloodiest War
1861-1865
The Big Picture
By the end of 1860, the cords that had once bound the
Union together seemed to have snapped. In the
aftermath of Lincoln’s victory southern states began to
proclaim their secession from the Union. Lincoln and his
party did not hesitate to defend the Union and accept
the necessity of war.
The conflict that followed was one of the most savage in
the history of warfare to that point. More than 600,000
Americans died – a level of casualties almost equal to
the total number of American deaths in all the nation’s
other wars combined. The war strengthened the role of
government, accelerated the economic development
of the North, devastated the economy of the South, and
ended slavery. It is a major turning point in the history of
Secession
7 states (led by SC in Dec. 1860) seceded
before Lincoln took office
Confederate States of America (CSA)
founded Feb. 1861 in Montgomery, AL
seizing federal property
Crittenden Compromise rejected
Secession
 CSA attacked Fort Sumter
April 1861 – war begins
 Remaining slave states
decide
 VA, AK, TN, and NC join
CSA
 Four slave states stay in
Union – MO, KY, MD, DE
Confederate Government
 President – Jefferson
Davis
 VP – Alexander
Stephens
 Capital – Richmond,
VA
 Political similarities &
differences w/USA
 Dissent
Mobilizing for War
Higher taxes
Bond sales
Conscription
(draft): South 1862;
North 1863
Draft riots NYC July
1863
Economic Nationalism
Republicans nearly
supreme after
secession
Homestead Act
1862
Morrill Act 1862
Transcontinental
railroad
Promontory Point, UT 1869
The Politics of Emancipation
Republicans divided on slavery
Confiscation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation announced
in September 1862 after Antietam – went
into effect January 1, 1863
Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery
– ratified in 1865
Your Task
 Read the Emancipation
Proclamation (annotate as
necessary)
 Consider…
 Under what authority does
Lincoln issue the Emancipation
Proclamation?
 To what parts of the nation
does the document apply?
Why?
 What advice does the
document give to freed
slaves? Why do you suppose
11/9/15
WARM-UP: What did the
Emancipation Proclamation do?
What is its significance?
SWBAT: Summarize the battles of
the Civil War and describe its
impact on America.
REMINDERS
Historical Terms Quiz tomorrow
Create a DBQ due Thursday – to
Turnitin.com and as a hard copy
Read Chapter 22
Period 5 Exam next week on Day 2
Europe & The Disunited States
William Seward v.
Judah Benjamin in fight
for Europe
Britain and France
“King Cotton
Diplomacy”
Trent Affair
Sec. of State William Seward
Alabama claims
Wartime Leadership & Politics
 Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals”
 Use of war powers
 “Copperheads” and repression
 Election of 1864 – Lincoln (R) v. McClellan (D)
 Crucial Union victories & voting for Union
soldiers – Lincoln won
Early Battles
First Battle of Bull Run
July 1861
Union strategy
Monitor v. Merrimack
March 1862
Grant in the West –
Shiloh April 1862
Antietam Sept. 1862
Turning Point
July 1863
Vicksburg, MS – last
CSA holdout on the
MS River
Gettysburg, PA –
50,000 casualties,
CSA retreats
Gettysburg Address
End of the War
Sherman’s March 18641865
Surrender at
Appomattox Court
House April 9, 1865
Lincoln’s assassination
April 14, 1865
Grant
Sherman
Lee
Changes Brought by
the War
 Military
 New more deadly warfare: Gatling gun, ironclad
ships, telegraph
 Political
 Precedents – suspension of civil liberties, federal draft
 Northern dominance, end of nullification
 Economic
 Fiat money, inflation, debt, concentration of capital,
federal support for internal improvements &
expansion
 Social
 End of slavery – 4 million freed!
 Nursing & renewed feminism for women
11/10/15
Warm-up: Take out a sheet of paper
for the historical terms quiz.
SWBAT: Explain the significance of key
events and individuals in Period 5
(1844-1877).