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Bell Ringer

11:2 Bell Ringer 339 EQ: What was the significance of the early battles of the Civil War? Standard: Student will identify key events, issues and individuals relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the CW. Bell Ringer.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. 11:2Bell Ringer 339EQ: What was the significance of the early battles of the Civil War?Standard: Student will identify key events, issues and individuals relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the CW

  2. Bell Ringer • Listen to and read along with the lyrics to the song “Goober Peas” and “John Brown’s Body” • Complete questionnaire

  3. Britain stays neutral • Don’t need Southern cotton • Need northern wheat • Emancipation Proclamation

  4. Lincoln’s view on slavery • Morally opposed • Primary goal-save the Union

  5. Emancipation Proclamation • Freeing slaves constitutionally impossible • Used powers as Commander in Chief to emancipate all salves held in the Confederate states. • Contraband

  6. Effects of Emancipation Proclamation • Black enlistment • Southern slaves would flee north and southern men would have to return home to work the farm • Moral inspiration • Antagonized the south-prolonged the war

  7. Lincoln Suspends Writs of Habeas Corpus • Legally held 13,000 confederate sympathizers in jail without due process (no judge and no jury heard any evidence against them) • Constitution allows for suspension during times of national emergency • copperheads

  8. Union Draft/Conscription • 20-45 3 years • Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight • Commutation fees • Hire substitutes

  9. Southern Draft/Conscription • 17-50 • Rich Man’s War poor man’s fight • Hire substitutes • 20+ slaves exemption

  10. Northern Draft Riots • Free slaves would take over jobs and lower standard of living • Low wages, bad living conditions, high unemployment-would get worse • Couldn’t afford to avoid the draft

  11. 11:3EQ: What was the significance of the later battles of the Civil War?Bell Ringer-Skillbuilder 358

  12. Southern Slaves • More freedoms • Able to resist slavery • Enlisted in southern army • Sabotaged plantations

  13. Southern Economy • Shortages of food and basic goods • Inflation • Food riots • smuggling

  14. Northern Economy • Industrial boom • Huge profits • Lower standard of living • Women working • Labor unrest • inflation

  15. Soldiers on both sides • Filthy surroundings • limited diet • Inadequate health care • Disease • Prison camps: north v. south • Andersonville

  16. African American Soldiers in the North • Discrimination • Separate regiments • White officers • Lower pay • Higher mortality rate • Fort Pillow massacre • Not allowed to rise above the rank of captain

  17. White Women • North: Entered paid labor force • South: ran farms and plantations • Both: nurses, hospitals

  18. Taxation in the North • Recessive Federal Income tax

  19. Health Care • No knowledge of hygiene • U.S. Sanitary Commission established • Clara Barton-Union Nurse saves lives. Goes on to be a founder of the Red Cross

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