North Vs. South
What impact to photography have on the Civil War? What is the name of the famous photographer from the Civil War?
Mathew Brady
Options:
First Major conflict to be photographed
took away the romance associated with warfare
used as propaganda
pictures of family members/Lincoln
What is racial hierarchy?
claimed that whites were intellectually, biologically, and morally superior to African Americans
Who was the North? Who was the South?
North - Union
South - Confederacy
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What did African Americans do in the Union Army?
Assigned menial tasks (digging trenches, transporting water)
black enlistment boomed after the emancipation
Fifth-fourth Massachusetts infantry
Telegraph, Aerial Reconnaissance - Balloons, Submarines, Railroad, Army ambulance corps, Long-range weapons , Minie Bullet “Repeaters”, The Gatling Gun, Ironclad Warships, Naval mines and torpedoes, Hand Grenades, Rapid amputations, Anesthesia Inhaler, Ambulance-to-emergency room system, Plastic Surgery
List 3 states that succeeded from the Union and joined the Confederacy
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina
What was the Anaconda Plan?
General Winfield Scott, came up with this plan for Union forces to blockade Confederate ports
(prevent export of cotton, smuggling in of war materials)
Which state is the last to join the Union?
West Virginia
Explain 2 of the 3 Civil War Amendments (13,14,15)
13th amendment - “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
14th Amendment - granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states.
15th Amendment - “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What were the advantages of the North having the majority of industry?
manufactured war materials
100 guns in the south= 3,200 guns in the North
industry continued to grow during the war
upheld slavery
never established a supreme court
6 year term limit
Who were some of the people excluded from the draft in the Confederacy?
rich white men could hire a substitute
rich white men with more than 20 slaves
Both the Union and the Confederacy had a draft, which one started the draft first?
Confederacy
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation not apply too? What did the Emancipation Proclamation establish the war was for?
Did not apply to the Union slave states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri)
Did not apply to the parts of the Confederacy under Union control
Ending slavery
List 2 of the other advantages besides industry that the north had
Transportation System - more and better railroads
Homestead Act - 15,000 more farms (increase agriculture)
More mechanized farming
larger population
What were some of the things the Union did to finance the Civil War?
Levying taxes
Borrowing
Issuing Paper currency "Greenbacks"
The ideals of our nation are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on those ideals
Declared the battlefield as a sacred place (Gettysburg National Cemetery) and honored the sacrifice of the soldiers who died there
“Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
“Testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure”
“We highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
What was the difference between "Radical Republicans" and "Conservative Republicans"?
Radical - wanted to use the war to abolish slavery immediately and completely
Conservative - favored a more cautious approach, to placate the slave states that remained in the Union
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender? What General did he surrender too?
Appomattox Courthouse and Ulysses S. Grant
What was some of the advantages (3) the south had?
economic value of slaves > all the railroads, factories, and banks combined
Confederacy thought France and England would be on their side
Home advantage (hostile local population on their side)
fighting for sacred American values
Northern Opinion was more divided
Name at least 3 battles from the Civil War
Fort Sumter, The First Battle of Bull Run, Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Atlanta
What is the biggest failure of the war for the Confederacy?
never achieving diplomatic recognition by even a single foreign government
After what battle was the Emancipation Proclamation announced? What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antietam
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Explain the story of Lincoln's Assassination
Ford’s Theatre -watching Our American Cousin
With wife Mary Todd Lincoln, Major Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris
Security guard wasn’t at his post (John Parker)
April 14, 1865 at 10:20 pm John Wilkes Booth, snuck behind Lincoln and shot him point blank in the back of the head
Rushed him across the street - Peterson House
President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 am on April 15, 1865