Transcript Civil War and Secession

Warm -Up
Get out your textbook.
1.What page does the Unit on the
Civil War start on?
2.Evaluate and tell me about the art
on that page. (What is going on?
What is the emotion the artist is
trying to convey? What kind of
people are in the picture?)
Secession &
Civil War
Yes, take notes.
K-W-L (output)
What do you already KNOW
about the Civil War?
What do you WANT to learn?
It’s
1860
The North – New
York City 1860
• Large cities. New York, Boston, and
other major cities tripled or even
quadrupled in size from 1820 to
1860 as people left their farms to
find work in the cities.
• Semipro organized baseball clubs
had sprung up all over New York.
First officially organized baseball
game played in California was in
1860
• Professional football began in
Germany
1860
The South - Charleston, SC 1860
• Most states had free public schools
• Higher education became possible for women, but they were still expected to
marry and stay at home with their children.
• John Brown had just been hanged in December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
The West - Nevada in 1860
• First white settlement in Idaho
• The Pony Express begins its first run
• Wiyot Massacre: 80 to 250 Wiyot people were killed on Indian Island,
near Eureka, California.
Abraham Lincoln is selected as the
U.S. presidential candidate for the
Republican Party.
The election of 1860 had four
candidates.
How did having so many
candidates cause the South to
lose the election?
The vote for
Abraham Lincoln
was mostly a vote
for moderation
toward the issue
of slavery and a vote
for the Union.
However,
the South
felt it no
longer had
a voice in
the national
government
and did not
see how it
could
remain in
the Union.
secede (v.): to make a formal
withdrawal of membership
from an organization or
alliance
unanimous (adj): everyone
in agreement
At a state convention
held six weeks after
Election Day, South
Carolina legislators
voted
to secede. It was a
unanimous vote.
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South
Carolina
was the
first
southern
state to
leave the
Union.
Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned
South Carolina’s action.
However, he did not use force to prevent it.
Within weeks, six other Southern states
followed South Carolina.
First States to Secede
So. Carolina
Dec. 20, 1860
Mississippi
Jan. 9, 1861
Florida
Jan. 10, 1861
Alabama
Jan. 11, 1861
Georgia
Jan.19, 1861
Louisiana
Jan 26, 1861
The others seceded:
Texas
March 2, 1861
Virginia
April 17, 1861
Arkansas
May 6, 1861
North Carolina
May 20, 1861
Tennessee
June 8, 1861
Fort
Sumter,
April 11
The others seceded:
Texas
March 2, 1861
Virginia
April 17, 1861
Arkansas
May 6, 1861
North Carolina
May 20, 1861
Tennessee
June 8, 1861
The states with the largest enslaved
populations seceded.
“Should states be able
to secede if they want to? “
1. Visit each station and read the different
arguments.
2. Add your opinion and comments to each
page.
3. Go back and write (on exit tx) which
argument or two you agree with and WHY.
Warm -Up
By 1861, 11 states had seceded from the
United States.
Hey!
Let’s make a
new
government!
Yah-Yah!
Confederate
States of
America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTu1GDi_w
Dixieland
Union Version :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ra9c
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Jefferson Davis,
former Secretary of
War under Pres.
Franklin Pierce and
then Mississippi
Senator,
became president of
the Confederate
States of America
President
Davis’
inauguration
February, 1861
President Lincoln’s inauguration
March, 1861
The constitution of the
Confederate States
of America:
•
closely resembled the U.S. Constitution.
•
stressed the independence of each state.
•
implied that states had the right to secede.
•
forbid importing new slaves from other
countries.
When the Southern states
seceded, they took control of post
offices, forts, and other federal
property in their states.
Losing Control
Fort Sumter
On December 26, 1860, U.S.
Major Robert Anderson moved
his men into Fort Sumter, a key
fort in South Carolina.
The Confederacy objected; this
was in the South. They
demanded Anderson abandon
the fort, but he refused.
Sketch in your notes…
• Major Anderson sent word to
President Buchanan that supplies at
the fort were almost gone, and if
more supplies weren’t sent soon, the
fort would be lost to Confederate
control. Buchanan ignored his
request.
• Anderson tried again once President
Lincoln was in office.
• Lincoln had a few choices:
• He could send supplies to the fort.
• He could send troops to the fort to free the
Anderson and his men.
• He could choose to do nothing at all which
would mean he was giving the fort up to the
Confederacy.
A Tough Decision
Talk with a shoulder partner about
what Lincoln should do….
A Tough Decision
Lincoln’s Choice
President Lincoln
decided that he
should send supply
ships to the fort and
wait to see how
Southerners would
react.
• On April 10, 1861, Confederate
Gen. Beauregard, knowing the
supply ships were on their way,
demanded the surrender of
the Union garrison of Fort
Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
Anderson refused.
• On April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m.,
Confederate forces opened fire
on the fort.
Robert Anderson was an instructor at West Point
Military Academy. His favorite student? ….
P. Beauregard!
At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson
surrendered Fort Sumter. This event was the
start of the American Civil War.
1861
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President Lincoln
calls for 75,000
volunteers to put
down the rebellion.
Many young men
jumped at the
chance thinking it
would be a quick 3
months battle and
they would come
home.
The war lasted 4 years.
April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865
Warm-Up
Union
Consider the
advantages/
disadvantages
of the North
and South.
Explain 3
reasons the
North had more
advantage than
the South
Confederate
October 2, 2012
Railroad Lines, 1860
Confederate
Union