Civil+War

I see-/ It means Framed picture, black/white Old, before color pictures Two people giving each other smokes- good friends, brothers Stripes on arms- Soldiers in civil war Hats soldiers? On hinge Fancy designs rich family, or rich themselves

Twins? Fought on different sides. I think they killed each other after this photo or fought in the same battle. War split families apart.

Of course I would. Why would you defend something that you don't agree with? The point of it being where I lived is moot. It would be no different if it was taken by force, but it would change a lot if seceeded. Their fault for seceeding, it isn't my fault that they seceeded, and they need see the consequences.

Civil War Themes ===‍The Following are some big ideas you will need to examine as we study the Civil War: ===

‍1) Morality (conscience) vs. Financial Stability
===‍2) Defend a home state or a home country? Either way you're losing part of your home. ===

‍4) Fellow Americans or Traitors ... or both?
Similarities: Many passes the secession acts at or near the same time. They all repealed the Constitution and all of the laws that were applied to the state. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The seceeding states declare that they are no longer part of the United States of America. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The seceeding states turn themselves into sovereign and independent states <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All rights that they had do now apply to them anymore.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Differences <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Virginia-States that the federeal government had injured and oppressed the slaveholders in the state <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arkansas-"disgraceful and ruinous" to stay in the US <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Missouri-Lists all bad things happening in the state, calling it a "deep-settled hostility."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Author- Politicians in state of Missouri <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Place-Missouri <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior Knowlege- Missouri was a slave holding state that seceeded <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audience- Other states of the Union and Congress, etc <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reason- Wanting to seceed from the Union <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Main Idea- They were treated unfairy in the Union and it is better for them to be separated. Felt that US hated/disliked them. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Significance- After the passing of this document, Missouri is not part of the US and is a independent state.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Author- Politicians of state of Arkansas <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Place- Arkansas <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior Knowlege- Arkansas was in the south and also a slave holding state <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audience- People/states of America, Congress, president. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reason- To seceed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Main Idea- Did not want to be in Union, treated unfairy and disgracefully. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Significance-After passed, Arkansas is a free country <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">_ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflection- I think some of these acts do make sense. Many laws were passed in the US to prevent and stop slavery, but stopping slavery would destroy the economy of the state. It would be easy to feel that the US was trying to harm or hurt the states by seceeding. I would not sign up for the Secession acts because of the retaliation to secession by the US army that might happen if they seceed.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tasks 6/7/11 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Strategies** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) The Union strategy for fighting the war was to starve and cut off supplies to the south. They blockaded southern ports and prevented trade to other countries. This cost the south money and damaged the economy. The Union armies then invaded the south to destroy supplies and further damage the economy. The Union wanted to wait and starve the southern troops into surrender. So blockade southern ships from selling cotton to Britain. (cotton diplomacy)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The southern strategy for war was to defend their homes. They called out volunteers to defend their new country. Later in the war, the south tried to stall until a new president could be elected, a president that would want peace instead of war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the northern strategy would be more effective, because it could last a long time and would damage southern morale+economy, making it harder for southern troops to fight.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) For: Can kill enemy faster <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Advances country <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Better chance of winning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Against: Get killed faster <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More dangerous <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More damage

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) I think the north was winning the Civil war by 1863. They had blockaded and surrounded the southern states by then, limiting trade. If they kept waiting, they could starve the southern troops and families into surrender. The blockaded ports would prevent cotton from being traded, so that no other materials could be obtained except for what they already had. For example, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought over shoes because the Confederate army desperately needed shoes. Also, the north had more resources, people, and factories to use against the south. That would give them an advantage because they could keep the war going on and hold out longer than the south could.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why so many people died in the war. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Gatling gun shooting 200 rounds per minute was designed so it could kill lines of people quicly and the soldiers were conveniently lined up in nice straight rows. The generals still used strategies from the American Revolution, which worked with muskets, but did not work so well with machine guns like they had in the Civil war. Standing in lines got soldiers killed faster by Gatling guns and caused many deaths.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Condeferacy: Advantage: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-Try to survive, not to conquer land. "Home turf" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2-Better officers. Effective. Less army bases in Northern states. Many military bases in south. Most officers from south, joined south. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">North needed to appoint more officers, people bought officer position.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Technologies**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) What purpose the new technology served <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Balloons-Could see farther. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gatling gun-Could shoot faster <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camouflage-Hid from enemy balloons <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artillery-Long range bombardment

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) How it changed the way war was fought <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Balloons-Could direct artillery on the ground. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gatling gun-Could kill enemy lines fast <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camouflage-Hid tents and other important buildings from balloons and troops <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artillery-Kill groups of enemies from a distance.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) The importance of this weapon to the overall picture of the Civil War <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gatling guns and new types of artillery could kill many people, and caused many of the casualties in the war, because the troops were organized into lines and ranks, so the formation made it easy for this new technology to kill.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People are still needed to command and control these machines, and the machines are pointless if there are no people, because these are designed to kill people.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Gettysburg** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**1. Which army had the advantage after the first day of fighting? What were some reasons for their success? Could they have been even more successful?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Confederates had the advantage after the first day, because they had killed many troops and forced the remaining Union troops to fall back. The Confederates also had more troops on the field and outnumbered the Union troops. They could have taken advantage of their success and kill the retreating Union troops on the hills, but they didn't.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**2. What was the situation by the evening of July 2?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lee ordered attacks on the ends on the Union lines, and the Confederates took one hill from the Union troops. They were not as successful in other places.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**3. What evidence from the previous day's fighting brought General Lee to decide on the strategy for Pickett's Charge on July 3? What was the result of that assault?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After Lee saw that attacking the Union troops at the edges would not work, he tried to bombard the hills with artillery. When the Union defenses stood, Lee wanted to end the battle quickly by sending a large group of soldiers to charge the already weakened hill. He sent 12,000 troops in the charge, and only about half made it back alive.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**4. Why did General Lee decide to withdraw from Gettysburg?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were too many casualties in his army for Lee, and his army was too weak to continue fighting, so Lee retreated.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6/9/11

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do Now- The Emancipation Proclaimation was a strategic move because it would solve the issue of slavery in the United states, and if they managed to keep the Union together, it would solve two problems at once. If the seceding states did not want to get destroyed, they would have to join the Union again, and if they joined the Union, they would be forced to give up their slaves, solving the slavery issue and the secession issue. Britain wouldn't join war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emancipation Proclaimation- Slaves were freed in rebelling states. Border states didn't rebel but had states. __Made war about slavery.__ Britain could not join the war against the north because it would go agaisnt what they had worked for. By the states refusing to comply to the Emancipation Proclaimation, it made the war about slavery and not about state rights. The North appeared as the "good guys" trying to end slavery and the south appeared as the "bad guys". The flaw in this was that there were still states in the Union with slaves, the 4 border states. The north made the war about fighting to get rid of slavery while they still had states with slaves in their country.