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Quiz #1
1. Standards based education with emphasis on science and
math. North/South
2. Agricultural based society. north/south
3. Embraced industrialization and modernity. North/South
4. List two of the abolitionist discussed in class.
5. What group of people owned the majority of slaves in the
south prior to the Civil War?
6. What legislative compromise first placed a limit on the
establishment of slavery in new states?
7. What legislation broke that compromise with the inclusion
of California to the United States?
8. What United States president had no intension of banning
slavery but did want to stop the spread of it to new states?
9. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
10. Why did the south secede?
The Road to Civil War
Why the south seceded?
• Mad about how north was dealing with
slavery
• Missouri Compromise
– Slavery banned north of Missouri
• Compromise of 1850
– California wants to become a free state.
– Popular Sovereignty for the rest of the states.
Underground Railroad
• System of escape routes that hide
escaped slaves and helped them get to
the north.
• Dred Scott Case (1857)
– Slaves were nothing more than property and
didn’t have northern rights even when they
were living in the north.
Harper’s Ferry
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Tubman
Lincoln is Elected President
• Wanted to stop
the further
spread of
slavery.
• Pledged not to
interfere with
southern
slaves or the
southern way
of life.
Confederacy is Born (Dec 1860)
• Jefferson Davis
• S. Carolina, Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana,
Tennessee, and Texas.
• Importance of the
boarder states.
The War Begins
• Fort Sumter:
– Southern states start capturing Forts and
Federal buildings.
– Lincoln only sent supplies and the Fort fell to
the South.
• The people then rallied behind the
president to go to war!!
• A great president because he always
seemed to wait until just the right moment.
Northern v. Southern Generals
• South had the great generals of the
Mexican American War.
– Stonewall Jackson
– Robert E. Lee
– North had Ulysses S. Grant, but the rest of
the generals continually failed to take
advantage of southern weaknesses.
Grant
Sherman
Civil war: Movie Questions:
1.) What are some of the technological
advancements of the Civil War? How do
they impact the war?
2.) Describe some of the reasons why death
rates were so high during the Civil War.
3.) Describe the role cotton plays in the war.
4.) What tactics do the North use to win the
war?
5.) What was the Emancipation Proclamation
and its impact on the war?
Beginning of the War
• Northern Generals continually defeated.
They lose the boarder state of Missouri.
• General McClellan continually fails to
chase down confederate troops. Allowing
them to escape.
• Lincoln has a hard time finding capable
and aggressive generals.
Battle of Bull Run
• “Stonewall” Jackson defeats the Northern
troops by refusing to retreat. A surprise
victory that showed the north that this war
would last longer than 90 days.
• Lincoln’s response: 1st income tax, and
enlistment increased from 2 months to two
years.
• Some Confederates thought they had won
the war!
Lincoln concentrates on west.
• Wants to split the confederacy in two and
take the Mississippi River.
• Ulysses S. Grant: Hired to lead western
army.
• Battle of Shiloh Grant doesn’t give up and
wins, but at huge cost to soldiers.
Key Battles of the War
• Antietam
– 6,000 dead over 20,000 wounded, some men as
young as 13!
– North won but failed to chase down the retreating
Confederate army.
– Made Lee look invincible.
• Emancipation Proclamation:
– Stated that all slaves captured by the north would be
free. Made the war a war for slavery!!
– The so-called victory of Antietam was his opening.
President Lincoln at Antietam
The North Takes Charge
• Gettysburg:
– North finally won a battle, 23,000 Union and 28,000
Confederate died.
– A battle of attrition.
– Made Lee look less invincible, but General Meade still
failed to chase him down.
• Gettysburg Address:
– Lincoln tells the American people that we most unite
as a unified nation.
Battle of Vicksburg
• One of the Confederates strongholds on the
Mississippi river.
• North destroyed supply lines to Confederate fort
and waited until the right moment to attack.
• Confederates surrendered after food supplies
ran so low people were forced to eat dogs and
mules.
Union running the blockade on Vicksburg
Grant tries to take Vicksburg
Sherman’s March
• Total War: Destroy opponent on the home
front as well as the battlefield.
• Across the south to the ocean.
• Left a path of destruction a mile wide and
hundreds of miles long.
Part of Operation Anaconda
Surrender at Appomattox
• North takes southern Capital of
Charleston.
• Lee and Grant meet to negotiate
surrender.
• Grant sent troops home with their
possessions and three days rations. The
war was over after 4 years of fighting.
How the War changed life?
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More federal authority.
Widened gap between North and South.
First modern war- last old fashion war.
13th amendment.
Lincoln Assassinated
• April 14th, 1865.
• By John Wilkes Booth a 26 year old southern
sympathizer.
• Booth escaped, but was caught and shot 12
days later.
• Left the question of how to integrate 4 million
newly freed slaves into national life for the next
President Johnson.
Morning of a Nation
Civil War Medicine Movie
1.) What types of new medical techniques are
developed during the Civil War?
2.) What are the differences between northern and
southern medicine?
3.) What were the most common injuries and
reasons for death during the Civil War?
4.) How does the Civil War help to advance our
medical knowledge in the United States?
5.) List 5 interesting facts from the film.