The+Civil+War

6/1/11

In South Carolina and In Georgia the Constitution was ratified and adopted. Florida and Texas completely annulled the Constitution of the United States in their states. Texas and Alabama were both willing to revoke all the power given to the government from the Constitution to the people.

Author- The people of South Carolina Place- South Carolina Prior Knowledge- An ordinance was created to remove South Carolina from the rest of the states. Audience- The writers of the Constitution Reason- The people of South Carolina wanted to seceed from the United States The Main Idea- South Carolina ratified the Constitution of the United States so that they could seceed from the Union. Significance- This was important because South Carolina would no longer be part of the Union anymore and they would be protected by the Constitution.

Author- The people of Texas Place- Texas Prior Knowledge- Texas wanted to seceed from the the Union because they didn't feel like the Federal Government was protecting them they way they should be protected. Audience- The people who would make ratifications to the Constitution of the United States. Reason- Texas didn't want to stay as part of the Union because they didn't feel protected and didn't feel that their property was protected. The Main Idea- The people of Texas didn't like what the Constitution said so they repealed and annulled it in their state. Significance- This was important because the rights of the people wouldn't be protected by the Constitution anymore.

REFLECTION: The reasoning behind some of these acts don't make sense to me. Like Texas, they didn't feel protected by the Federal Government but by repealing the Constitution they would be even less protected because the Constitution gave them rights that would help in protecting them. I probably would not sign the Secession Acts if I lived in the represented states because I would still want my rights that are given through the Constitution.

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6/6/11 I see... Two men holding some type of object in the other's mouth. The object that is in one man's hand is a thick pipe and the one the other man has is thin. The hand that these men are not using is placed on their chest. One has three stripes on their arms. These men are wearing the same types of jacket

It means... That these men are on the same side. That one of these men could be more important than the other. That these men could be very loyal to the country that they are fighting for. They are a certain rank in their army They are men on the same level in the army.

6/6/11 List of things in each picture: 1.) A little boy with his arms crossed and a kind of large hat on. 2.) A boy with a more fitted hat and a military-looking jacket. He looks very serious. 3.) A boy with a straightface, a different type of hat on and another type of military jacket. 4.) A boy with anothertype of hat, a military jacket, and a canteen.

Some Similiarities: These are all young men. They are wearing hats They have military jackets

Some Differences: They hats they are wearing are all different. Some boys are younger than the others All their jackets have different collars.

Ages: 1.) 8 years old (really 4) 2.) 11 years old (really 10) 3.) 13 years old (really 12) 4.) 17 years old (really 15)

TASK- If Massachusetts has seceded I would return to Massachusetts and defend it against the US army. I would do this because it is what my people would prefer. Even if it went against my beliefs it is still what a majority of the people want and I would have to fight for the people not against them. I don't think that there was really any way to avoid taking side if you lived in the United States during the Civil War. I think this because everyone was affected by it so in order to fix the problems that it created you had to choose a side and defend it until one side came out on top.

Civil War Themes

‍4) Fellow Americans or Traitors ... or both?
Northern Strategies -enlisting an army -being equipped for war -sealing the south to avoid war

Southern Strategies -refusing to provide troops -using the military -foreign aid -the south thought that their growing cotton would cause foreign aid.

I think that the more effective strategies are the northern strategies because they are trying to prevent the war by sealing the south and if anything goes wrong they would have their army at hand.

6/7/11 TASK: 1.) The strategy for the Union in fighting the war was to seal the south to avoid war. The strategy for the Confederacy was to rely on cotton and in doing so they would gain foreign aid. The side that would be more effective would be to seal the south to avoid war because that way they wouldn't be conflicts and the south wouldn't be able to break off the cotton supply to the south.

2.) Reasons to support the use of new technology: There would be more advanced weapons to help defeat the opposing side.

Reasons to oppose the use of new technology: One side might not be able to obtain these new technological advances.

3.) By 1863 I think that the south was winning.

The gatling gun was important because both sides could kill more people in a shorter amount of time. The gatling gun could defeat the soldiers that were sent first to battle and then they could kill the good soldiers that were coming after.

New technology: gatling gun telegraphs shrapnel trains ironclads bullets

Confederates were winning by 1863 because: -they had experience -they had better military strategies -their enemy lacked training -they were on their home turf -defensive war. Robert E Lee learned about fighting a defensive war through Groarge Washington.

Union has to force Confederates to rejoin. Confederates needed shoes. In order to get shoes they had to invade the North. They had to invade Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This was the turning point of the war because it was on Union soil. In 1863, a way for Abraham Lincoln to win the war could be to send more experienced soldiers out for battle.

6/9/11

DO NOW: Explain how the Emancipation Proclamation was a strategic move on the part of Abraham Lincoln and not necessarily a moral move.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a strategic move because Abraham Lincoln knew that the South wouldn't free their slaves. The border states, which were slave states in the Union, were allowed to keep their slaves, however. The United States was the only place that still had slaves. This meant that if they need help in war the British wouldn't help them. The British would, then, help the Union. The south turned this war from a fight for their states' right to a war over slavery. -British- will no longer ally w/ Confeds. - If Britain joined the Confeds. then the Union would have never won the war.

2 flaws in Lincoln's plan to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. - The Confederates actually gave up their slaves. - Border States

South fought to keep slaves North fought to abolish slavery. However, the North still had slaves in the border states. The four border states held elections to decide whether or not they would secede. The problem was that if Maryland secedes then the capital of the United States would not be in the United States anymore. - martial law ^ That would go against the Constitution. Lincoln knew he was violating the Constitution and didn't care because if the border states seceded then the war was over and the Union would lose.

The importance of the Emancipation Proclamation was to force the south to openly say that the war over their states' rights was turning into a war over slavery causing Britain to not fight for them anymore. The problem was that the border states were in the union so Lincoln issued the martial laws, which went against the Constitution to win the war.