How did the Civil War shape our lives today?
-Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.
-Their economy was dead, they didn't have plantations
-Their farms were destroyed because of the idea of total war. Not only do you kill their army, they are playing a mind game.
-It gives rise to terror like the K.K.K. and more racism.
-No more slaves
What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?
-Habeas Corpus, it is legal action that says a prisoner can be released from unfair jailing.
List the four border states.
-Kentucky
-Missouri
-Maryland
-Delaware
Why did West Virginia form?
-It split because it was a divided state politicly and people who wanted to join union could go live in West Virginia and after the war they never went back. They never went back probably because they to states resented each other.
What disadvantages did the South face?
-They were out produced and the north had a lot more people.
Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?
-What were the three main strategies of the Union?
-What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?
-The average age was 25 but 40% were 21 years old or younger.
What was the outcome of Bull Run?
- 1st Battle- July 26, 1861
- The confederates were under General Joseph E. Johnson and Beauregard
- The union was under the rule of General Thomas J. Jackson.
- The Union loses.
- 2nd Battle August 28-30, 1862
- The confederates won
- The confederate were lead by Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet
- Union controlled by John Pope
Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.
-The union was led by U.S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell
-The Confederates were led by Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard
- It was a Union victory
-There were about 23,746 people in the war total
-It took place in Hardin County on April 6-7, 1862
What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?
-It frees all the slaves on territory's that are still in rebellion. All of the Slaves run away and fight for the Northern army. It was a political weapon to scare people. There was a risk of slave uprisings.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
-It officially ended slavery.
How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?
-The south wanted independence. In the north if you had money you could bye yourself out of the draft if you were drawn or pay someone to go to war for you. The front line of men in the war were mostly poor men.
Discuss the draft laws in the north.
-Rich men could bye themselves out of the war if they were drafted or they could pay poor men to fight for them.
Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
-Invasion of the north by Robert E. Lee. 70,000 men were lost, it was a three day battle, northern victory. Fought in Pennsylvania and July 1st through the 3rd. The south retreated in the fourth. It is known as the turning point of the war. After the battle, Robert E. Lee didn't have the people to fight a defensive battle because he had lost most of his men.
-Chancellorsville was a complete southern victory yet Stonewall Jackson gets himself shot and killed. Stonewalls jackson is Lee's right hand man. He doesn't have anyone else to replace Jackson. Union was lead by Joe Hooker.
How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?
-When he was at war, there was no mercy. He would destroy everything n his path to get inside his opponents head. He would do things like burn down farm, houses, and kill everyone of his opponents that he was fighting.
Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?
-Abraham Lincoln
-Jefferson Davis
..... They were both born in Kentucky.......
What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
-It freed all of the slaves in the states that were still in rebellion. This made it so all of those states that were still at war, lost all of their slaves to the army's of the North.
Interesting but incompete information, to the point of being deceptive. A little knowledge is a terrible thing.
ReplyDeleteFor example, your comment about Lincoln suspending habeas. Yes, that's true.
But you failed to mention that, contrary to what most people hear, the US Constitution specifically allows habeas to be suspending in times "of war or rebellion".
Oh, you didn't know that? Plus, the only real issue is WHO can suspend it. The Constitution is silent on that -- it doesn't say. Lincoln suspended it when Congress NOT in session, then immediately upon their return, had them vote on it. They agreed.
Furthermore, keep in mind the South had been jailing, torturing, and killing people -- especially black peoiple -- without a trial for decades. Freedom of speech, press, and association even for WHITES had been outlawed for decades in the most of South.
No one could openly question slavery, nor the torture of slaves, in Southern books, newspapers or speeches. It was not merely socially unacceptable - it was a CRIME.
To the extent the South allowed free speech, it sure was not about slavery issues -- that speech was forbidden and stomped out from 1820 on. A basic fact nearly forgotten in the sanitized history we learn today.
Many Confederate supporters in the NORTH were urging soldiers to fight against their own army. They were also vocal about arresting and executing Lincoln.
So if a soldier obeyed these Confederates, the soldier could be executed for desertion -- but the people that urged him to desert had to be protected? Nonsense. Many of the courts were in the hands of slave owners or those sympathetic to slave owners. The USSC was owned, virtually, by slave owners or those whose family grew wealthy on slavery.
Should Lincoln sit by, while Confederate advocates, during war, urged rebellion and in some cases killing of US troops, and DO NOTHING? Should he trust the slave owning judges to enforce anti-desertion laws?
Sure, you can say he should have, but that would have let slavery spread and the US to collapse, taken over by the power of slave owning class.
Either teach the whole thing or don't teach it at all.
So much of the ugly horrible truth of the period leading up to the Civil War has been omitted entirely from our history books, even college history books, its a shame. The truth of what led up to the Civil War is drastically ugly -- religious excuses for torture of slave women, for e.g., by the likes of Robert E Lee.
When have you heard that Lee advocated -- and DID - torture slave girls? Never. Did you know Lee was obsessed with the capture and return of one young slave girl, and kept obsessive notes about her in his hand written account books?
No. But you heard about Lincoln suspending habeas, didn't you? Not in context, but you heard it.
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Dear Mr. Seeker,
DeleteThank you for your information. If you had been in class you might know that the class discussed ideas, mostly Dr. Gary Gallagher's (University of Virginia), that Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus in order to insure that Maryland did not secede to the Confederate side - as Baltimore was full of Confederate supporters.
As for Lee, true, the romantic version of the Great Civil War General is "Romantic" (promoted by Jubal Early and Shelby Foote among others) but to discuss - in detail - how slave women were raped and tortured by many of their owners (students should read Toni Morrison's BELOVED for a fictionalized version of the horrors of slavery) is probably not appropriate in a high school U.S. History class. Howard Zinn's chapter in A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, "Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom" is probably a better introduction to the slave issue than stories about Lee's obsession with a certain slave girl. Lastly, Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus is just one issue (and one that you seem obsessed with) in a war that a student could study for years upon years without exhausting materials or questions, and most high school courses, survey courses, allow only 3 weeks.
Again thanks for your comments. We'll use them in class.