Transcript The real Souljo Boi - MAT

The Real Soulja Boi
Whitney Patterson, Chane
Jacobs, and Phillip Price
July 2008
Standards Addressed
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8-3.4: Reasons for secession for SC as well as attitudes of
others involved such as unionists and abolitionists
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8-3.5: Military Strategies and important battles
The Causes of the Civil War
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1. Tariff (tax): question of
future economic power
States’ Rights: political
argument grounded on the
legacy of the Jeffersonian
Era (good ole boys)
“Equality” within the Union
Overall Economy
1830’s dawn of Abolition
ALL TRACE BACK TO THE
FUNDAMENTAL
DISAGREEMENT OF
SLAVERY
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The Umbrella Effect
Confederate Secession
The secession documents explicitly point out
secession was because of the South’s
peculiar institution.
http://people.clemson.edu/~pcander/secession.
html.
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Confederate Advantages
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Playing offensive: Confederates have to NOT LOSE
Republican Ideology (Way of thinking, consumed
every aspect of thought)
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Liberty: Precious, fragile and weak
Power: Selfish, grasping, always working to overcome
Liberty
Vigilance: On guard
Virtue: Internal defense of Liberty
Corruption: Selfish, Power through Conspiracy
Conspiracy: Proof Power moves secretly
Better knowledge of terrain (property)
Better leadership
Union Advantages
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Population: 2,200,000 to 1,064,000
Railroads
Industry: could mass produce arms,
ammunition, cannons, etc.
Maps
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States that seceded before
April 15th, 1861
States that seceded after April
15th, 1861
Union States that permitted
slavery
Union States that forbade
slavery
Territories, unaffiliated
Fort Sumter
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April 12th, 1861 at
4:30 am
Gen. P.G.T.
Beauregard fired the
shots on Major
Anderson
Fort Sumter
In her Charleston hotel room, diarist Mary Chesnet heard the
opening shot. "I sprang out of bed." she wrote. "And on my
knees--prostrate--I prayed as I never prayed before." The shelling
of Fort Sumter from the batteries ringing the harbor awakened
Charleston's residents, who rushed out into the predawn
darkness to watch the shells arc over the water and burst inside
the fort. Mary Chesnut went to the roof of her hotel, where the
men were cheering the batteries and the women were praying
and crying. Her husband, Col. James Chesnut, had delivered
Beauregard's message to the fort. "I knew my husband was
rowing around in a boat somewhere in that dark bay," she wrote,
"and who could tell what each volley accomplished of death and
destruction?“
http://www.us-civilwar.com/sumter.htm
Manassas
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1861
Picnic mentality Directly
affected the way of life of all
involved, including
Carolinians
Thomas Jackson dubbed
his name Stonewall
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“Oh men, there are Jackson
and his Virginians, standing
behind you like a stone
wall! Let us determine to die
here, and we will conquer.
Follow me.” ~General
Barnard Bee
Birth of Rebel Yell
Confederate victory
Battle at Fredricksburg
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A win for the South
Fought in Fredricksburg, VA
From Dec. 11-15, 1862
one of the most one-sided battles of the Civil
War
Brought an early end to a campaign against the
Confederate capital of Richmond.
The Union Army came with about 20,000
soldiers and there were about 12,000 casualties
December 13th Battle
1 pm 
3:30 pm 
Key:
Confederate
Union
Chancellorsville
A Confederate Victory
 Known as Lee’s
“perfect battle” because
of his risky but successful
Division of his army
 Jackson was shot
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May 1st and 2nd
May 3rd
May 4th
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
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Turning point of the war
Picketts Charge
Commanders George G. Meade vs. Robert E. Lee
Strength
 93,921: North
 71,699: South
Casualties
 23,055: North
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14,531 wounded,
5,369 captured/missing)
 23,231: South
(4,708 killed,
12,693 wounded,
5,830 captured/missing)
Union Win at Gettysburg
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Significance:
The turning point of the war. After success at
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Lee invades
the north again. After trying to break the union lines
for 2 days, Lee tries a frontal assault on entrenched
union forces. This was known as Pickett’s charge.
This attempt failed miserably. Lee ultimately
retreats to Virginia. This would be the last chance
for the South to win the war and threaten the North.
Sherman’s march on Atlanta
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Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea)
Union Commander: General William Sherman
Confederate Commander: General John Hood
July 20-September 2, 1864
Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044
Winner: Union
Implications of Atlanta
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Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea)
Union Commander: General William Sherman
Confederate Commander: General John Hood
July 20-September 2, 1864
Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044
Winner: Union
On to the Coast
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Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln, "I
beg to present you as a Christmas gift the
City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty
guns and plenty of ammunition, also about
twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." On
December 26, the president replied in a
letter:
For South Carolinians………
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Some even went as far in South Carolina to
brand this man the Devil Incarnate, the
Antichrist if you will. They even regard his
Campaign of the Carolinas and his March
to the Sea as a sort of Satanic crusades.
Thoughts on Sherman
"I dont see any horns. You are supposed to
have horns" A child's answer to Sherman's
question of why he repeatedly was staring at
his head.
No love lost for SC
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"Im Going to march to Richmond.....and when
I go through South Carolina it will be one of
the most horrible things in the history of the
world. The devil himself couldn’t restrain my
men in that state. " William Tecumseh
Sherman prior to his infamous Campaign
of the Carolinas
South Carolina (reasons he
hated us)
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We were the “Cradle of Secession”
We were the first to Secede
He thought we were a small, but cocky state that
had brought forth the 4 years of hardship on the
nation called the American Civil War. South
Carolina would have to pay and as General W.T.
Sherman hoped the 1861 occupation of Fort
Sumter by Major Anderson would do, "show South
Carolina for the first time in her existence she
cannot do as she pleases".
1865 Scourging the Carolinas
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Sherman devastates the Carolinas on his
way back to meet up with Grant in Virginia
Beauregard split his troops.
Confederates are no match, evacuate
Feb17,1865
He burns 1/3 of the city Columbia
Moves on to North Carolina
Appomattox Courthouse
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Surrender of Lee
Lee’s Surrender
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On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered
his army of Northern Virginia in a little village
called Appomattox Courthouse. Lee
surrendered formally to Ulysses S. Grant.
The papers of formal surrender were signed
in the home of Wilmer Mclean, whose first
house was damaged during the first battle of
the Civil War.
Back to Sherman in NC
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Two weeks after Lee’s Surrender at
Appomattox, Johnston surrenders at Durham
Station, April 26 1865, to Sherman’s March.
In May, Union cavalry conducted a raid
through Spartanburg and Greenville in search
of Jefferson Davis.
The last cabinet meeting of the Confederate
States was held in Abbeville on May 2.
The Civil War was at an end.
Fun Quotes
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it.
The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"
- Union General William T. Sherman said this
shortly before beginning his brutal March to the
Sea
Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet! Jackson
"I desire my children to be educated south of the
Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of
domicile in the Confederate States." –Jeb Stuart
Fix Bayonets Ya’ll We are
going to do an activity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2hv8U
8cWU
Resources
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http://members.aol.com/x69xer/index.html
www.walnutcreeksd.org/1064206142233747/l
ib/1064206142233747/Civil_War_Battles_ppt
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Wikipedia.org
South Carolina, A History. Walter Edgar