Transcript Warm-up for 03.09.10

Warm-up for 03.09.10
PLEASE DO NOT COPY!!!!
• Please take out your notecards, and lay out
your Emancipation Proclamation and
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign cards to the
side.
• Next, create 2 new cards: Sherman’s March to
the Sea and Andersonville, and begin working
on the facts for the backsides of those cards.
You will have 10-15 working min. of these in
class today – that is all! SO, GET BUSY! : )
Warm-up for 03.09.10
PLEASE DO NOT COPY!!!!
• Please take out your notecards, and lay out
your Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
and Union Blockade cards to the side.
• Next, create 2 new cards: Emancipation
Proclamation and Sherman’s Atlanta
Campaign, and begin working on the facts for
the backsides of those cards. You will have 1015 working min. of these in class today – that is
all! SO, GET BUSY! : )
The Anaconda Plan
The Union Blockade
• The Union Blockade - a massive effort by
the Union Navy to prevent the passage
of trade goods, supplies, and arms to
and from the Confederacy on the
Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the
Confederate States of America.
• President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed
the blockade on April 19, 1861.
• His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan
of General Winfield Scott, required the
closure of 3,500 miles of Confederate
coastline and twelve major ports
– Port of Savannah – closed off after the
surrender of Fort Pulaski in April 1862.
UNION BLOCKADE SHIP
The Union Blockade
• Early in war, not enough Union ships  Union pours
millions into building new ships for blockade.
• Ships that tried to evade the blockade, known as
blockade runners, were mostly newly built, highspeed ships with small cargo capacity.
– They were operated by the British (using Royal Navy officer
on leave) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports
and the neutral ports of Havana, Cuba; Nassau, Bahamas,
and Bermuda, where British suppliers had set up supply
bases.
• Those ship owners that were able to
break the blockade line made a
FORTUNE!
– Est. $200 mil. worth of merchandise and supplies made
it through the blockade by end of war
CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE RUNNER
The Union Blockade
• At first 5/6 attempts to slip through the
blockade were successful; by 1864, only half
were successful (which means the life
expectancy of a blockade runner was one
round trip).
• Confederate cotton exports were reduced
95% from 10 million bales in the three years
prior to the war to just 500,000 bales during
the blockade period.
OUCH! THAT HURTS, YO!
The Union Blockade
• Blockade causes prices of goods to
dramatically increase in the South and
makes certain items impossible to get.
• Bacon = $6.60 (2010= $116)
• butter = $2.00 a pound (2010 = $35)
• tea = $7.00 a pound (2010 = $123)
• Hit the hardest?
• Food, medicine, and weapons.
What do steam ships,
cotton plants, and
emancipation have in
common?
King Cotton Diplomacy
• The political strategy for winning the
war in the South was known as King
Cotton Diplomacy.
Factories in France and England
Cotton Supply
p. 263
DoES THE
CONFEDERACY
get the
help IT needS?
King Cotton Diplomacy
• Instead of England and France
supporting the South in the war, they
turn to cotton markets in India and
Egypt.
HA! HA!
BUT WHY?
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SOUND RIGHT?
1.) Surplus of cotton in England = we don’t need
your stinkin’ cotton!
2.) Not wanting to get involved in US affairs
= maybe we won’t get pulled into war ourselves
3.) The outcome of the Battle of Antietam = The
North laid out a mighty butt-whooping on the
Confederacy AND announced the Emancipation
Proclamation…its gotta’ be over for the
Confederacy.
Now, on to the
Battle of
Antietam…
Where: Sharpsburg, Maryland near a stream
called Antietam Creek
When: September 17, 1862
Who: Commander of CSA = Robert E. Lee
Commander of USA = George McClellan
What happened:
• Single bloodiest day of battle in the Civil War
(and in US History).
• 12 hour battle
• 23,000 casualties (killed, wounded, missing)
• Union victory
• After long list of Confederate victories, the Union
win at Antietam gives President Lincoln the
confidence to issue the Emancipation
Proclamation.
Emancipation Proclamation
CHANGES THE PURPOSE OF THE WAR!
• From keeping the Union together  to  keeping the
Union together AND freeing slaves in rebel states
• Declares that all slaves “living in states in rebellion” will
get their freedom on Jan 1, 1863
• A 100 day “grace period” will be given to “states in
rebellion” so that they can make up their mind if they
want to come back into the Union of not.
• If a “state in rebellion” comes back to the Union within
100 days, it does not have to free its’ slaves!
• After the President Lincoln issues this proclamation on
Jan. 1, 1863, France and England (2 anti-slavery
countries) had no choice but to “back” the North not
the South.
Now, on to the
Battle of
Gettysburg…
Where: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
When: July 1-3, 1863
Who: Commander of CSA = Robert E. Lee
Commander of USA = George Meade
What happened:
• Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
• 3 day battle
• 51,000 casualties
• Union victory
• Ended Lee’s 2nd attempt to invade the
North. He will never press that far north
again.
Now, on to the
Battle of
Chickamauga…
Where: near Chattanooga, TN near
Chickamauga Creek IN GEORGIA
When: September 19-20, 1863
Who: Commander of CSA = Braxton Bragg
Commander of USA = William Rosecrans
What happened:
• Bloodiest 2-day battle of the Civil War
• 34,624 casualties
• Confederate victory
• Kept Union army from invading GA and
heading towards Atlanta for a few months.