The+Civil+War

toc =The Civil War= "** Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ** ** Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. **.. //- President Abraham Lincoln// **,** //Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863//
 * It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. **"

"**Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally**" //- President Abraham Lincoln, 1865//

" The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States, the War Against Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution, the Lost Cause, the War of the Rebellion, the Brothers’ War, the Late Unpleasantness. Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the States. By whatever name, it was unquestionably the most important event in the life of the nation. It saw the end of slavery and the downfall of a southern planter aristocracy. It was the watershed of a new political and economic order, and the beginning of big industry, big business, big government. It was the first modern war and, for Americans, the costliest, yielding the most American fatalities and the greatest domestic suffering, spiritually and physically. It was the most horrible, necessary, intimate, acrimonious, mean-spirited, and heroic conflict the nation has ever known...

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers — if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a "new birth of freedom." " //WETA. PBS "The War: Crossroads of Our Being" Copyright 2002 http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war///

=Resources for Note taking= For Ch 22 from History Alive =Handouts from Class=

DBQ on Lincoln, Secession, Civil War

Civil War - Advantages and Disadvantages

Time line of the Civil War Battles of the Civil War chart:

Battles of the Civil War - two lists

"Medications" packet

Reading "Ch23: Awesome Fighting" from Hakim. //War Terrible War//

=Key Terms & People=
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Jefferson Davis
 * Anaconda Plan
 * Emancipation Proclamation (Hippocampus)
 * 13th Amendment
 * draft
 * writ of habeus corpus (Hippocampus)
 * total war
 * Robert E. Lee
 * Ulysses S. Grant
 * Appomattox


 * Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War.
 * //Strengths & Weaknesses of the North & South// (Hart 304 - 305)
 * Mobilization (Hippocampus)


 * Examine the roles played by women and African-Americans during the war.
 * // Women Support the War // (Hart 309)
 * //Fort Wagner: African-Americans Join the War// (Hart 317)


 * How did President Lincoln's stance on slavery evolve and change throughout the war? What factors (economic, social, political) caused him to change his position?
 * From Compromise to Crisis & Gettysburg: A Turning Point (Hart 298, 312)
 * [|Emancipation Proclamation] (Hippocampus)
 * Civil War Turning Point (History Channel)
 * Thirteenth Amendment (Hippocampus)


 * What was the impact/significance of each of the following battles:
 * Bull Run (1861)
 * Antietam (1862)
 * Gettysburg (1863) (History Channel)
 * Vicksburg (1863)

=Extensions=

=Video Resources= [|**The Civil War in 4 Minutes...**]


 * [|PBS Series on Civil War]**

[|**NYTimes Discussion marking 150 anniversary of Civil War ("DisUnion: the Civil War")**]

[|1861] [| - The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart]
 * Book Review on recent book on the Civil War:**

http://knopfdoubleday.com/goodheart/
 * Book Review of 1861 - **

[|Myths of the Civil War]

[|Civil War 150 Interactive]

Civil War Research Project
= Study Guide for Test =

= Lincoln Debate / Socratic Seminar Prep =

Lincoln on Slavery and Freedom - Quotes:

Debate Question Page: