us civil war: north and south divided...north and the south house divided.notebook 1 may 22, 2013....
TRANSCRIPT
North and the South House Divided.notebook
1
May 22, 2013
US Civil War: North and South Divided
Lesson objectives
1) Lesson objective 1: Students will be able to analyze, justify,and provide examples of how economics played a role in causing the Civil War.
2) Lesson objective 2: Students will be able to understand thephysical and cultural characteristics of the North and South and analyze the role they played in the Civil War.
North and the South House Divided.notebook
2
May 22, 2013
Who fought in the Civil War?
United States of America – (North or Union)
•President – Abraham Lincoln (assassinated at the end of the war)•Capital – Washington DC•North had the advantages of... population, money, transportation, food and manufacturing.
• Important people: Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellen, and William Tecumseh Sherman
North and the South House Divided.notebook
3
May 22, 2013
Who fought in the Civil War?
Confederate States of America – (South or Confederacy)
•President – Jefferson Davis•Capital – Richmond, VA (relocated here)•South had the advantage...agriculture, skilled soldiers and military leadership.
• Important people: Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Ambrose Burnside
North and the South House Divided.notebook
4
May 22, 2013
Who fought in the Civil War?
North and the South House Divided.notebook
5
May 22, 2013
Causes of the Civil War
Cause 1: One of the main causes of the Civil War (C.W.) were the sectional differences between the North and South.
Cause 2: The Issue of States Rights1. States rights was seen as the overwhelming cause of the Civil War.
2. In fact, when the armies formed for the C.W. only a small minority of the soldiers on either side would have declared the reason they joined the army was to fight either “for” or “against” slavery.
3. States rights dealt with the idea that Southerners believed their states should have MORE POWER to make decisions than the federal government.
North and the South House Divided.notebook
6
May 22, 2013
Causes of the Civil War
Cause 3: Preserving the Southern Way of Life
1. Also related to the slave issue.
2. Southerners believed their way of life was under attack and would come to an end if the North continued to attack slavery.
North and the South House Divided.notebook
7
May 22, 2013
Causes of the Civil War
Cause 4: Slavery 1. The root of all the problems was the institution of slavery.
2. The use of slavery was renewed by the invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney.
3. Slavery was very important to the South and Southerner’s were going to do anything they could to protect it.
(Cotton Gin Video)
North and the South House Divided.notebook
8
May 22, 2013
Issues With Slavery
a. In the 1850’s, only 1/3 of the population of the U.S. lived in the South and that number was shrinking.
b. The industrial North was attracting scores of immigrants
c. The South had lost control of the House of Representatives because of the growing Northern population.
d. The South became more focused on maintaining parity in the Senate.
e. The South was worried that an amendment would be made to abolish slavery.
f. This led to many conflicts between the South and North over slavery and states rights.
g. The final straw was the election of Abraham Lincoln as the new President of the United States. This led the Southern states to secede, led by South Carolina, from the Union and form the Confederate States of America.
North and the South House Divided.notebook
9
May 22, 2013
North and the South House Divided.notebook
10
May 22, 2013
Evaluate which region had an edge in each:
Category Advantage North
Immigrants Population
Advantage SouthIndustry
Protecting Home Turf
Education
Military Skill
Transport System
North and the South House Divided.notebook
11
May 22, 2013
Putting It All Together:Use the following sentence stems for each
region to construct a brief essay
• The Main advantages that the North had at the beginning of the US Civil war were ____, ____, ____, ____ and ____. Some specific examples of each advantage are: ...• These helped the North to ultimately win because ...
• The Main advantages that the South had at the beginning of the US Civil war were ____, ____, ____, ____ and ____. Some specific examples of each advantage are: ...• These were not enough to give the South victory because ...