consider: Think of someone close to you (i.e. a sibling or a close friend). There are times when you have disagreed withthat person. Would you let someone else attack them for what they believed? Would you help someone else attack that person close to you?

essential question:

What defined the actual split between the North and the South?

(Upper South Secedes and War Begins / Advantages)

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Fort Sumter April 12, 1861

Upper South Secedes and War Begins:

Fort Sumter April 12, 1861

Upper South (AR, TN, NC, VA)

border states (MO, KY, MD, DL)

After Fort Sumter, both sides are established:

11 Southern states in the Confederacy vs.

the rest of the United States in the Union.

Fill in the blanks at the top of each chart based on which side, Union or Confederacy, had those advantages (see p. 229 in text for more information).

Then, we will view some slides that will give you information to put under “Other things to consider.”

Advantages:

                                            

                       

The United States as they were before the war. Note that Washington, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, and New Mexico

were territories, and not states, in 1861. This indicates that few people besides Native Americans lived there.

The eleven Confederate States. Note that Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware did not secede, though they were slave states. West Virginia formed early in the

war when it was occupied by Union forces, but did not join the Union as a state until 1863.

The capitals of the North and South are about 100 miles apart: Union (USA) capital is Washington, DC and

Confederate States of America (CSA) capital: Richmond, VA.

The North had a lot of advantages, but did they have the most important advantages?

Now, compare and rank (1-10) all of the advantages in your groups.1 = most important overall advantage10 = least important overall advantage

Who had the advantage in the Civil War?Possible main idea sentences:

• The Union had the advantage in the Civil War.

• The Confederacy had the advantage in the Civil War.

Possible support sentences:

• The Union had a larger population to use as soldiers.

• The Confederacy had higher morale due to their land being invaded by outsiders.

essential question:

What defined the actual split between the North and the South (Maps & Strategies)?

What to label on your map (see notes, textbook pages 233 and 1010-11, and map on the left):

ConfederacyUnionborder statesRichmond, VAWashington,

DCMississippi

RiverAtlantic Ocean

Consider the map and the advantages that each side had. What are some possible strategies that each side might use? In other words, what would you do if you were a Union general to win? What would you do if you were a Confederate general to win?

How can I attack the

other side?

The North’s Plan:

The Anaconda Plan

1. blockade (block with ships) Confederate coast

2. take Mississippi to cut Confederacy in two

3. capture CSA capital of Richmond

The Anaconda Plan

As you illustrate this on your map, consider these illustrations. If you illustrate the map on the front, please write “see front” on the map on the back.

1. blockade (block with ships) Confederate coast

2. take Mississippi to cut Confederacy in two

3. capture CSA capital of Richmond

The Anaconda Plan

1. Defend the homeland

The South’s strategy:

CSA

Lincoln

FranceFrance

Great Britain

“RECOGNITION” OR “NO.”

J. Bell to Napoleon III. “Can you recognize that thing they call the C.S.A?” Nap. “Well, I think I could if ‘twere not for that Big Fellow who stands in front.”

The South’s strategy:

2. Use King Cotton to get foreign countries to recognize the CSA and help

consider:Who do you think had the better strategy at

the beginning of the Civil War? Why?

essential question:How effective were the strategies

used by the North and the South in fighting the Civil War

(July 1861 - July 1862)?

1st Bull Run July 1861

War in the East (1861-62):

Confederate General Robert E. Lee

Union General “Tardy” George McClellan

War in the East (1861-62):

The Oceanfront (1861-62):

The War in the West 1861-1862

This time period covers July of 1861 to July of 1862, the first year of the war.

Which parts of the Union’s Anaconda Plan was working in the first year of the war? Explain.

• Confederacy• Union• Jefferson Davis• Abraham Lincoln• Fort Sumter• Anaconda Plan• border states

• King Cotton• 1st Bull Run• “Stonewall” Jackson• U.S. Grant• Robert E. Lee• “Tardy” George

McClellan

Within your groups, quiz each other on the terms that we have covered so far about the Civil War.

Whoever woke up the latest this morning will start. As you are being quizzed, write the terms that you know, sort of know, and don’t know in the chart on your page. We will switch after a couple minutes.

wartime photographs

• Confederacy• Union• Jefferson Davis• Abraham Lincoln• Fort Sumter• Anaconda Plan• border states

• King Cotton• 1st Bull Run• “Stonewall” Jackson• U.S. Grant• Robert E. Lee• “Tardy” George

McClellan

You are a Civil War soldier (you pick either Union or Confederate). On a sheet of notebook paper, write a letter home dated August of 1862 for that

soldier. Write what you think about what is going on that includes mention of four of the following

terms (underline each term when used):

wartime photographs

some information to help visualize the experience of the soldier for your journal or letter:

• uniforms

• 1st Bull Run (a.k.a. 1st Manassas)

• a soldier’s life

• the field hospital

• entertainment for enlisted men

• the war in the West

• the war in the East

consider: How could the Union use slaves to strengthen their war effort?

essential question:How effective were the strategies used by the North and the South in fighting the Civil War (Turning Points: 1862-1863)?

TURNING POINTS 1862-1863

What a long war means for the South:

• victory more likely if war was longer

• supplies running low; link to Europe all but gone when the South needed trade and recognition

TURNING POINTS 1862-1863

New strategies:

• South: attack North in the North

• North: free the slaves after a victory

Antietam September 17, 1862

Emancipation Proclamation

Battle of GettysburgJuly 1–3, 1863

the Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863

VicksburgMay 18 –

July 4, 1863

Who benefited the most from the changes to the strategies of each side in the second year of the war (1862-1863), the Union or the Confederacy? Explain.

consider:What defines

modern warfare (military-style

fighting today)?

essential question:

What changes came about during the Civil War in America (the Civil War as the first modern war)?

Things that define modern warfare:1. It is impersonal (you do not see who you are killing).

2. There is mass killing (many people killed at once).

a Predator UAV carrying a Hellfire-C laser-guided missile

screen shot from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Fire Controlman on the USS Lake Erie, whose missiles are satellite-guided

Things that define modern warfare:1. It is impersonal (you do not see who you are killing).

2. There is mass killing (many people killed at once).

a Predator UAV carrying a Hellfire-C laser-guided missile

screen shot from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Fire Controlman on the USS Lake Erie,

whose missiles are satellite-guided

On your list of Civil War firsts, circle anything that meets the qualifications for modern warfare. Also, underline anything that seems like an important development in how war is fought, but does not define modern warfare.

consider:

Based on the cartoon, who might the Copperhead Party be?

essential question:

What changes came about during the Civil War in America (Wartime Politics)?

Wartime Politics in the North

Overall, Republicans pass legislation easily, such as the Homestead Act.

Continue your letters by writing a letter dated December of 1863.

Write what you think about what is going on that includes mention of

four of the following terms (underline each term used):

• Antietam

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg

• Gettysburg Address

• Vicksburg• Copperheads• Radical Republicans• one new

technology of the Civil War.

wartime photographs

consider:If you were an African American in the United States during the Civil War, would you join the Union army? Why or why not?

essential question:

What changes came about during the Civil War

(discrimination of African American

soldiers)?

Based on the movie Glory, document three ways that you see African American soldiers face discrimination and inequality as soldiers for the Union army. Also, answer the questions that follow.

consider:

What will it take for the Confederacy to give up and rejoin the Union?

essential question:How effective were the strategies used by the North and the South in fighting the Civil War (the war ends, 1864-65)?

END IS NEAR 1864-1865

Grant as General-in-Chief of Union forces: constant, coordinated attacks

END IS NEAR 1864-1865

Lee needs battles to be costly in Union lives

Inflation is just one way that the Confederacy was struggling by the last

year of the war.

END IS NEAR 1864-1865

Grant’s plan was costly, but works

William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea

William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea

Election of 1864

13th Amendment

Appamattox Courthouse

assassination of Lincoln

Final Results of the Civil War• Union victory• states’ rights

argument (especially nullification and secession) ended

• 600,000 dead• $15 million

spent• 13th Amendment

ends slavery

The third letter is to be dated May 1865. The war has just ended and the president has

been assassinated. There should be at least four things underlined in this letter.

• Ulysses S. Grant• election of 1864• Sherman’s March to the Sea• 13th Amendment• Appomattox Courthouse• assassination of Lincoln• one of the final results of the war• something about African American

participation in the Civil Warwartime photographs