Transcript What was NC`s role in the Civil War efforts?

Comparing Advantages
Chapter 15 Section 1
Write what you think is happening in this picture. Identify the
setting, (place, year, season etc.) What connections can you
make to what you already know?
Comparing Advantages
Chapter 15 Section 1
Essential Question: What issues and events shattered the
nation's unity and led to Civil War?
Objectives
1.Contrast the resources of the Union and the
Confederacy at the start of the Civil War.
2.Describe the Union and Confederate armies
3. Understand the contribution of North Carolina to
the Confederate army.
What is the setting of this picture? What do you
think is happening?
Setting the stage
(pg 319)
Union signed up for 90 days
Neither side
expected the war North Carolina enlisted for 180 days.
to last long.
The Union was better
equipped to fight a
longer war
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Union (North)
Experienced federal gov't.
trade link with foreign
govt.
23 states adding WVA
2x population
80% of factories and mills
able to produce ammo,
wpns, and uniforms
good transportation
system
roads, canals, railroads
Confederate (South)
o good leaders
o Robert E. Lee
o Home field advantage
o fighting for family,
homes, way of life.
Gathering Armies
Main Idea
War changed how
people on both sides
viewed women,
children, and AfricanAmericans
• Women served as messengers, spies, and
nurses. They took care of homes and ran
plantations. Some impersonated men in order to
fight. They also ran factories and mills
• Children as young as 9 served in the military
• African-Americans served as cooks, spies, scouts,
and drivers for supply wagons
• By the end of the war 179,000 men of African
descent served
What is meant by "It is . North - could pay $300 to the gov’t or pay someone to
a rich man's war but a
fight in his place and therefore not have to fight
poor man's fight"?
South - people who owned 20+ slaves were not required
to join. Many slaves joined their owners to fight or take
care of their masters.
Both- Men btwn 17-50 were conscripted
North Carolina’s share of troops
What was NC’s role in the
Civil War efforts?
Troops = 1/5 NC population
96% of males btwn 20-60 served in the Confederacy = 1/6 of
Confederate forces.
NC lost 40,000 men more than any other Confederate state.
Important women
Clara Barton - Started the American chapter of the Red
Cross. Ensured all men who died at Andersonville
prison were accounted for and properly buried.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow – Confederate spy buried in
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC
Harriet Tubman – Union scout and nurse