Introduction of the Civil War and Stations Activity

1. Introduction of the Civil War and Stations Activity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqjwXkSwII

2. AKS/GPS Content Standard/s: • SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. • A. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville. Enduring Understandings: • Political, economic, and social factions within a country sometimes lead to conflict and subsequent resolution. • How did national political issues lead to the decision for Southern states to secede from the Union? (H6a) • How did key military, political and economic strategies influence the outcome of the Civil War? (H6b, E1, E2a) • How did political actions and social reactions change Southern culture after the Civil War? (H6c)

3. Essential Questions: • Analyze the events spiraled together to led Southern States into Succession. • Compare and contrast how the North and South were different at the start of the Civil War. • How did Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation to continue the war strategy to benefit the North? What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the national level? • Evaluate which battles Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga and how these battles marked the turning point in the Civil War that would eventually led to a Southern defeat? • Compare and contrast northern v. southern war prisons. Why were war prisons worse than fighting on the battlefield? Describe the conditions and treatment at Andersonville. • Evaluate Sherman’s Total War plan and decide based on that evidence if Sherman was a hero for his actions or a villain.

4. Vocabulary Illustrations • Total War • Anaconda Plan • Blockade • Gettysburg Address • Blockade Runners • King Cotton Diplomacy • Emancipation Proclamation • Ulysses S. Grant • Secede • Robert E. Lee • General William T. Sherman

5. Main Causes • State’s Rights • Slavery-Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 causing an increase in slavery and laws that seemed to protect the southern way of life. • Representation and Preserving the Union • High tariffs that effected the south. • Slave vs. Free States

6. Civil War Facts • 1/2 million people were killed or wounded in the Civil War • 60 % of the fighting took place in Virginia

8. Border States (Kentucky, Maryland, & Missouri) were States that had soldiers fighting for both sides! In the battle of Vicksburg, there were 17 Confederate armies and 22 Union armies from the state of Missouri!

9. Abe Lincoln • Was the president for the North • The North’s Capital was Washington D.C.

10. Jefferson Davis • Was the president for the South. • The South’s Capital was Richmond, Virginia

11. Front Sumter, South Carolina • Since South Carolina had seceded from the United States, it didn’t want Northern soldiers on its land at Fort Sumter • Southern General Bueargard tried to get the northern general Anderson to peacefully surrender Fort Sumter.

12. Fort Sumter • The first major battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861. • After 2 days, the North surrendered to the South. • No one was killed but 1 soldier who was killed when a cannon backfired during the surrendering ceremony.

13. Stations/Centers Directions

14. Station One • Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation

15. Station Two • Civil War Battles

16. Station Three • Letters Home

17. Station Four • War Prisons

18. Station Five • Gettysburg

19. Station Six • Civilians and War

20. Station Seven • Civil War Generals

21. Station Eight • Timeline of Events