Civil WarDiffering Points of View

How do we piece together the History of the Civil

War?Why does the Civil War still matter?

How did each part of the country differ?

● What does this graph paint a picture of life in the North and South?

● How did these factors impact daily life?

How do these factors impact point of view?

Which states support slavery? What reasons may they have?

Make an argument for point of view!

● What economic factors influence point of view?

● What geographic factors shaped views?Main idea Txt. pgs. 460-461❖ Illustrate rural vs. urban citiesHomework: pgs. 464-467; 467, questions 1-5Review key ideas handout with a partner using the word bank.

North and South Grow Apart

1. What caused the north and south to become 2 different regions?2. What is sectionalism? How did it relate to a tax or tariff? pg. 465

North: wanted higher taxes on imported goods to people would buy American products

South: wanted cheaper goods made in Great Britain

What factors shape your ideas?

Option 1: Think of a time when you have had an idea or opinion that has been different from a friend. What experiences influenced your opinion? How did this cause a conflict?Option 2: Think of a character in a novel that has had a conflict. What caused the conflict? How did this person develop his/her ideas?

Poetry Break: Why Poetry?

● What is the author’s purpose?

● What is the topic of the poem?

● What is the mood of the poem?

● How does the author use

literary devices?

Poem Menu: Select 1 to Respond to:

A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya AngelouLife for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair: Langston HughesMillion Man March Poem: Maya AngelouStill I Rise: Maya AngelouThe Slave’s Dream: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Slave Singing at Midnight: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What do sources reveal about views?

Point of view is the way a person looks at or thinks about a topic or situation. Read about two writers and their points of view.❏ 1. Identify the topic❏ 2. Determine fact vs. opinions.❏ 3. Analyze key phrases❏ 4. How might the writer’s experiences affect point of view.❏ 5. Describe the writer’s point of view.

Choices: pgs. 468-469

What do primary sources reveal?

1. Choose from the primary sources.2.What do they reveal about the writer’s view of slavery and the war?3. Let’s try one together!

Primary Source: Cartoon

Why do we need multiple sources to study the past?

What is a primary source for students?What are secondary sources?Sources: Library of CongressTeachinghistory.orgPrimary Sources for Kids

Topics for Projects on the Civil War

What do you want to know?How will you communicate it?What purpose will you have in sharing?What sources will you use to investigate?

Primary Sources

● George W. Bush resource guide● Create your own document at docsteach● Make a Digital Vault from the National

Archives● Case Detectives: Investigate cases

Primary Sources

http://www.archives.gov/education/research/history-in-the-raw.html ●http://www.archives.gov/nae/education/tool-box.html ●http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/ ●http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm ● http://www.primarysource.org/what-is-a-primary-source ● http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/help/using/primary.aspx

Different Views of Slavery

Abolitionists: opposed the practice of slavery and fought to end, or abolish, it everywhere.

❖ Many were religious❖ Others, like David Walker, were free

African Americans.❖ This led to the Underground Railroad, in

which Harriet Tubman and many Quaker families led slaves to the northern free states.

Shaping Viewpoints

How was slavery resisted?

1. Daring escapes2. Assisting escapes--abolitionists 470-4713. Underground Railroad Conductor4. Leading revolts-Well, I’ll be John Brown!Handout: Points of view and questionsHomework: pg. 472-474; pg. 474 1-5 and Link to Science

How did slaves resist?

Slaves:1. refused to obey orders

2. destroyed/broke tools

3. escape

4. worked slowly

5. pretended to be sick

6. breaking rules--learning to read

pgs. 470-475

Homework: pg. 472-474; 474 1-5

Effects of resistance:Slave Codes: laws to control the behavior of slaves.

❏ slaves can’t hit a white person, even in self-defense

❏ can’t own property❏ can’t buy or sell goods❏ needed permission to travel❏ needed permission to marry❏ children of slaves were

automatically slaves for life

Author’s Purpose

● Determine the reasons the author or illustrator published the primary documents.

● What can you determine about their point of view?

● What evidence can you find?● What else does this make you wonder?

Southern Slave Owners Point of View

Factories in the North had evils:long hours, unsafe surroundings, little pay, children had to work, workers lived in slums, and workers were miserable!

Factories and Urban Areas

What is Sectionalism?

How did this develop?---Read Pgs. 476-479 in classhomework 480-482; workbook pg. 112● Struggle Over Slavery● Compromise of 1850● Bleeding Kansas● Country Divided

SecSNectWhat was life like leading up to the Civil War?

North South

Land: Agricultural Region:

_________soil and much ________________soil

___________growing seasons ____________climate.

than the South. No _________ An abundance of ____________

crops were grown in the North. for transportation of agricultural

Economy was based on ______- products (crops, etc)

___________and commerce. (business).

Review North and SouthImpact of Civil War fill inSlaves were free.North : little, battlesSouth- Devastation, cities, plantations, slave, cash

Effects of war on people;wounded, who, where, wealthy, drafted, difficult, water

Women; farms, North, factories,families, plantations

African American Slavesplantations, proclamation, Union, loved, north, sharecroppers

What laws did Congress pass?

❖ Compromise of 1850: California became a free state when the law was passed to keep the country from falling apart.

❖ Fugitive Slave Law: escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they reached the North

❖ Dred Scott Decision: African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and had no rights.

❖ Senator Douglas said to let people in the new territories vote. Popular vote wins.

❖ Kansas-Nebraska Act: People who favored one side rushed to settle in Kansas. Slavery was voted in! But many who voted were not from Texas! They voted illegally. Violence broke out and Kansas was nicknamed Bleeding Kansas.

---pgs. 478-479

Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas

Lincoln’s point of view: “If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong…”pg. 481

Douglas’ said:“If each state will agree to mind its own business...we can exist forever divided into free and slave states.”

Written Conversation

● Write a conversation about the spread of slavery that might have occurred among Americans in the 1850’s. Think about leaders such as John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Douglas, Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others.

● Use the term states’ rights in your conversation.

pg. 482

What do the letters, art, and images reveal about the writer’s view?

● Select a person, topic, or key event and examine and analyze the evidence using a response sheet.

● How can you share their point of view?● What purpose, as an author, do you identify as important for your

audience? Why?❖ teach/inform❖ entertain❖ heal❖ persuade

● What form will your published piece consist of?

● How will you determine how well you accomplished your goal?

Key People in Abolitionist Movement

❖ William Lloyd Garrison (see handout)❖ Sojourner Truth; pgs. 418-419; 421, 519❖ Frederick Douglas; pg. 422❖ Harriet Tubman; pg. 475❖ Harriet Beecher Stowe; pgs. 425, 480❖ John Brown ❖ Abraham Lincoln; pgs. 458, 483

Abolitionist ReviewMost Northerners were not ________________________________________. However, abolitionists had a great impact on the abolition of _______________________.

William Lloyd Garrison- was the publisher on an abolitionist newspaper known as The Liberator.His newspaper was banned in the __________________. He formed the Anti-Slavery Society.

Sojourner Truth- was the first African-American woman to gain recognition as an anti-slavery speaker. She was born a slave in New York but was freed through gradual _______________________________. She worked under Abraham Lincoln.

Frederick Douglas- taught himself to read and write while he was a slave. He escaped slavery and became a spokesman for the abolitionist _______________________. He published an anti-slavery newspaper known as The North Star and he wrote an autobiography. He encouraged Abraham Lincoln to emancipate the slaves.

Harriet Tubman- was an escaped slave who became one of the most successful “conductors” of the Underground _______________________________. Tubman was known as “Moses” to her people because she led more than 300 slaves out of the south, including South Carolina, to freedom.

Abolitionists Continued...

Harriet Beecher Stowe- was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This book revealed to many people how cruel slavery truly was. She wrote the book in response to the Fugitive Slave Act.

John Brown- an abolitionist who migrated to Kansas after the Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed. He and his sons participated in the violence that gave the territory the name “Bleeding Kansas.” He also led a raid on the United States weapon arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in West Virginia. He was hoping to capture guns and lead a slave revolt. His raid was ______________________.

Word Bankabolitionists, slavery, south, emancipation, movement, railroad, unsuccessful

Resource Menu to Select

The Civil War Overview

Summary Battle Projects

Civil War Quiz

How does geography of the land shape a battle?

North and South

What did the South do to invoke war?

● Secede: to break away; the southern states were trying to break away from the northern states

● Confederacy: break-away states (southerners) who wanted to form their own government

● New Capital for Confederate States of America

Beginning of the Civl War

Civil War Begins!

Fort Sumter: Shots are Firedpg. 484-487

seceding from the Union

Handout/fill in the blanks

Workbook pg. 113 and 114

Review of Fort Sumter

President ________________informed Confederate President Davis that he was sending supplies to the federal troops, who were surrounded at Fort Sumter. The _____________troops were ordered to surrender by the Confederates but they would not.

Next, Jefferson Davis ordered Confederate troops to fire on the fort. This ___________________the Civil War.

The Union’s Strategy: Anaconda Plan

How does geography shape a battle?

● How did the Anaconda Plan get its name?

● How was the anaconda plan like the instinctive behavior of an anaconda?

● Anaconda Plan Specifics: Sketch the scene!

Early Stages of the War

492-494 Graphs of Union and Confederacy--handoutWar Strategies

Anaconda PlanBattles of the Civil WarHomework: 495-496; pg. 496

Timeline of Civil War Battles

● Fort Sumter● Battle of Bull Run: Battle of Manassas● Antietam: Bloodiest Battle of War…● Emancipation Proclamation!!

Read 500-501;

Homework read 502-503; questions 1-5

Battle of Gettysburg

Why was it significant?--Read 506-509 in classThe Tide Turns!--info sheet for notebookHomework: map of free and slave statesWhich were border states?

Review of the Battle of Gettysburg

The ____________________________army led by General Robert E. Lee invaded the North for the second time but was turned back at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

This fight was the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederate Army was so severely wounded that they never again had the military strength to attempt an invasion of the _________________.

After Gettysburg, the South could only fight a _____________________war. (What is the difference between invading and defending?)

Word Bank: confederate, north, defensive

Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address

Given by President Lincoln on the site of the famous battle.. He dedicated part of the battlefield as a National Cemetery to honor the men who had been killed in battle.

In his famous two minute speech, Lincoln said that his intention was to preserve the union. He said,

“ Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The War Ends

The war is over! Surrender!!!read pgs. 510-511; pg. 511 1-5Appomattox Court House, Virginia--review sheet for notebook

Lincoln’s Assassinationpg. 516-517

Impact of the War

*Union was preserved * Slaves were freed by President Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation

Physical Environment of the North South

The physical environment was The South suffered from completeeffected very ______________ ___________________________. Entireand there were few _____________were burned to the ground_______________that took place and _______________________werein the North. destroyed. Most of the farmland was ruined and fields were useless with the absence of _________________labor to plant and harvest the ___________crops.

North : little, battlesSouth- Devastation, cities, plantations, slave, cash

Effects of the War on PeopleEffects of the war on the people:

- Over 600,000 men died and over 1,100,000 were _____________________________.-The impact of the war on the people depended on ______________you were and where you came from.

-The ________________often paid for others to take their place.

-Soldiers on both sides were ___________________into service and faced a long,____________________war with little food or fresh __________________.

wounded, who, where, wealthy, drafted, difficult, water

What effect did the war have on women?

Women were left in charge of homes, _________________and businesses. In the _____________, women were nursed or worked in _________________________. Others rolled bandages or knitted socks for the soldiers. In the South, women managed their ________________________and continued operating the farms and _________________________________________. They were also nurses.

farms, North, factories,families, plantations

What affect did the war have on slaves?Some ran away from the _______________________________ while others worked the fields and waited. After the Emancipation________________________,, they were allowed to join the___________army.

After the war, many former slaves left the plantations looking for _______________ones sold away. Few freedmen went __________________. Most soon returned to the areas they knew and many found work as ___________________________________.

Amendments to the Constitution

Thirteenth Amendment: slavery is illegalFourteenth Amendment: Former slaves are equalFifteenth Amendment: Right to vote for allReconstruction, pg. 518

Review pgs. 519