CIVIL WAR

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• CIVIL WAR

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Civil War

• Define conflict.

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• Define conflict.

• A conflict is a disagreement between two or more
  parties.

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• What type of economy did the northern states
  have?

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• What type of economy did the northern states
  have?
• industrialized

Way to go!
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• Click on the word that describes the type of
  economy of the Northern states.
• industrial
• agricultural

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• Agricultural is not the correct answer.

OOPS!
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• What type of economy did the southern states have?

http//www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/southus.pdf
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• What type of economy did the southern states
  have?
• Agricultural (slave labor)

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• Why were slaves so important in the South?

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• Why were slaves so important in the South?
• intense (heavy) labor required of tobacco farming
• Reliable and inexpensive source of labor

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• Growing Tobacco was a labor intensive
  enterprise. What does this statement mean

http//www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/nos
talgia.htm
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• Growing Tobacco was a labor intensive
  enterprise. What does this statement mean?
• A lot of people had to work to harvest the
  tobacco crop.

http//www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/nos
talgia.htm
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• If the northern states wanted to create free
  states out of the western territories, what did
  the southern states want to create?

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• Northern states wanted free states
• Southern states wanted slave states

http//teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000075
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• What does the bold-faced word seceded mean?
• Who was President of the Confederate States of
  America?

• Virginia seceded from the Union along with other
  states to form the Confederate States of America.

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• The word secede means to break away from or
  separate or divide.
• Jefferson Davis was the President of the
  Confederacy.

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• Why did Virginia secede from the Union?

http//www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/us1860.pdf
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• Why did Virginia secede from the Union?
• Southern states seceded after the election of
  Abraham Lincoln in 1860
• Virginians did not want to fight against their
  neighbors in the South

http//www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/us1860.pdf
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• What happened to cause the western part of
  Virginia to separate and become its own separate
  state, West Virginia?

http//www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/southus_nl.pdf
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• West Virginia became a state because
• Western Virginia did not agree with the
  secession from the Union
• Shared similar feelings with north about slavery
• Did not rely on slaves for economy

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• During the mid 1800s, some southern states had
  many enslaved Africans working on large
  plantations. What does the bold-faced word
  enslaved mean?

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• Enslaved means forced to work without pay and
  recognized as anothers property.

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• Click on the person that led a bloody rebellion
  to fight for slaves freedom against plantation
  owners.
• Frederick Douglas
• Nat Turner
• Harriet Tubman

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• Nat Turner led the bloody rebellion against
  plantation owners.

Correct!
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• Frederick Douglas did not lead the rebellion
  against plantation owners.

You Goofed!
Try again!
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• Harriet Tubman did not lead a rebellion against
  plantation owners.

Wrong Answer!
Try again!
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Civil War

• Define revolt.

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Civil War

• Define revolt.
• The word revolt means to go against.

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• Why did Nat Turner lead a revolt against the
  plantation owners?

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• Why did Nat Turner lead a revolt against the
  plantation owners?

to fight for the slaves freedom.
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• Click on the group that wanted to END slavery.
• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Abolitionists
• Carpetbaggers

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• TRY AGAIN!
• The Loyalists were Revolutionary War colonists
  who did not want to go to war with England.

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• WRONG ANSWER!
• The Patriots wanted to gain independence from
  England in the Revolutionary War.

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• The Abolitionists wanted to END slavery.

Correct
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• Carpetbaggers were northerners who came south
  after the Civil War to make money.

Wrong answer!
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Civil War

• Name a famous female abolitionist who was a
  conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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• Name a famous female abolitionist.
• Harriet Tubman was a famous female abolitionist
  who helped establish the Underground Railroad.

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• What was the name of the secret route that
  escaped slaves took?

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• The secret route escaped slaves took was called
  the

Underground Railroad
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• Some whites believed that slavery was evil and
  should be abolished. One even went as far to
  attempt to overtake an arsenal at Harpers Ferry
  in order to help slaves fight for freedom. What
  was this mans name?

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• The man who attempted to overtake the arsenal at
  Harpers Ferry was John Brown.

memory.loc.gov/ammem/ doughtml/tl2.html
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• Who became President of the Union (United States)
  in 1860.

http//www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.
html
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• Abraham Lincoln became President of the Union in
  1860.

http//www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.
html
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• Why were so many people in the
• South unhappy with the election
• of this President?

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• People in the South were unhappy with Lincoln
  because he wanted to keep slavery from spreading
  to the new states.

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• While Lincoln was President, why did the North
  and the South go to war?

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• While Lincoln was President, why did the North
  and the South go to war?
• The North wanted to abolish slavery and the South
  wanted to keep slavery.

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• After Lincoln was elected President, seven
  southern states formed a government called
  ______________________.

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• After Lincoln was elected President, seven
  southern states formed a government.
• The Southern government was called the
  Confederate States of America.

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• Why did Virginia vote to become part of the
  Confederacy?

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• Why did Virginia vote to become part of the
  Confederacy?
• Many Virginians did not want to fight against
  other southerners.

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• Jefferson Davis became the President of the
  Confederacy.
• What was the capital of the Confederacy?

http//www.civilwarhome.com/jdavisbio.htm
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• Richmond was the capital of the Confederate
  States of America.

http//www.harcourt.com/cgi-bin/geography/states.p
l?functionVIRGINIA
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• The western portion of Virginia (West Virginia)
  favored abolition of slavery because they were
  not dependent on slave labor. Why were they not
  dependent on slave labor?

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• Why was West Virginia not dependent on slave
  labor?
• The land was too mountainous for farming and
  there were many rivers.

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• Click on the name of the person who was the
  commander of the Confederate army.

Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
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Yahoo!

• Robert E. Lee was the commander of the
  Confederate Army.

http//news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/im
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• Stonewall Jackson was a general who was shot by
  his own men during the Civil War, but he was not
  the commander of the Confederate Army.

Try again!
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• Ulysses S. Grant was the commander of the Union
  Army at the end of the Civil War.

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Civil War

• Where was the first battle of the Civil War in
  Virginia?
• Who emerged as a hero?

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• Battle of Bull Run
• near Manassas, VA
• first battle in VA
• Stonewall Jackson emerged as hero

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• Who was the Confederate general who played a
  major role in the Battle of Bull Run?

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• The Confederate general who played a major role
  in the Battle of Bull Run was
• General Thomas Jackson.

Do you know my nickname?
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• How did General Thomas Jackson get his nickname?
• He was nicknamed Stonewall Jackson because
  witnesses said that during the Battle of Bull
  Run, Jackson stood while the battle raged around
  him like a stone wall.

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• Who won the first battle?
• The Confederacy won the first battle at Bull Run
  in Manassas, Virginia.

http//www.historyplace.com/civilwar/1bullrun
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• Virginia is considered a major battleground of
  the war. Why might this statement be true?

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• Major battles were fought in Virginia as the
  Union attempted to capture the confederate
  capital in Richmond Virginia

http//americancivilwar.com/statepic/va62.html
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• Using the map, locate the following key places
• Capital of the Confederacy
• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Hampton Roads
• Appomattox Courthouse

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• Richmond,
• (capital of Confederacy)
• Battle of
• Fredericksburg
• Hampton Roads
• Appomattox
• Courthouse

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• Please explain the following analogy
• Yorktown, Virginia the American Revolution
• Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia The Civil War

What's an analogy?
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• An analogy explains relationships between two
  sets of information.
• Yorktown, Virginia was the setting for the
  signing of the treaty to end the American
  Revolution.
• Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia was the setting
  for the signing of the treaty to end the Civil
  War.

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• Please complete the following analogies
• (a) ________________ American Revolution
  April, 1865 The Civil War
• (b) General Washington General Cornwallis
• General Grant _________________

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• The analogies are
• October, 1781 American Revolution April ,
  1865 The Civil War (date wars ended)
• General Washington General Cornwallis
• General Grant General Lee (winner/loser)

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Civil War

• Who surrendered to whom when the Civil War ended
  in April, 1865?

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• General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the
  Confederate army surrendered to General Ulysses
  S. Grant, the commander of the Union army in
  April, 1865.

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What significant battle does this graphic depict?
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• The Monitor vs. Merrimac (Virginia)
• First ironclad battle proves superior to wood
• Battle took place near Norfolk, in Hampton, VA
• Battle was fought to a draw

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Reconstruction

• Define the term Reconstruction.
• This is a cartoon that depicted feelings at the
  end of the war.

http//www.dartmouth.edu/7Elibrary/Library_Bullet
in/Apr1997/DCLB974-2Job.html
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Reconstruction

• Reconstruction was the time period following the
  Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed
  to rebuild the country and bring the southern
  states back to the Union.

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Reconstruction

• Immediately after the Civil War, Virginia and
  other southern states faced serious problems.
  What were some of these problems?

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• Problems facing the southern states
• The economy was in ruins.
• Money had no value.
• Banks were closed.
• Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were
  destroyed.
• Freed slaves needed housing, clothing, food and
  jobs.

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• How did the Freedmens Bureau help newly freed
  slaves?

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• How did the Freedmens Bureau help newly freed
  slaves?
• The Freedmens Bureau helped newly freed slaves
  by providing housing, clothing, food, fuel, and
  medicine. It also established schools for former
  slaves to get an education.

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• Many freedmen (freed slaves) and poor white
  farmers turned to sharecropping as a solution to
  their many problems. What does it mean to
  sharecrop?

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• Sharecropping
• System of farming
• Land owners rent part of their land to workers
• Workers were freedmen and poor white farmers
• At harvest time, the land owner received the
  major share of the crop

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Reconstruction

• Define the term Segregation.

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Reconstruction

• Define the term Segregation.
• Segregation the act of separating one group of
  people from other groups usually by race or
  religion.

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Reconstruction

• Having children attend different schools based
  solely on their race would be an example of what?

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Reconstruction

• Having children attend different schools based
  solely on their race would be an example of what?

Segregation
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• Define the term discrimination.

http//www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc036b.htm
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• Discrimination is a term that means an unfair
  difference in the treatment of people. Many
  African-Americans were discriminated against in
  the South after the Civil War.

http//www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc036b.htm
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Reconstruction

• For a short time during the Reconstruction period
  (late 1800s), African-Americans began to gain
  power in Virginias government, and men of all
  races could vote.
• What happened to change this gain of power?

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Reconstruction

• After Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws were passed
  by Southern states.
• These laws established segregation or separation
  of the races and reinforced prejudices held by
  whites.
• Many of the gains made by African Americans
  during Reconstruction were lost.

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• How did Jim Crow laws affect African American
  life?

http//www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc036a.htm
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• Jim Crow laws discriminated against African
  Americans in that they
• required Poll taxes
• required voting tests (most could not read)
• made holding office difficult
• enforced segregation of public schools
• (black and white children attended different
  schools)

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• After the Civil War, industry, technology,
  transportation, and cities began to grow and
  contribute to Virginias economy. Virginias
  cities grew rapidly with people. Why do you think
  this happened?

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• Some reasons Virginia grew rapidly
• job opportunities

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Reconstruction

• Why was the railroad a key to the expansion of
  business, agriculture, and industry?

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Reconstruction

• Railroads helped turn small towns into cities
• For Example Roanoke
• Railroads could carry manufactured goods, so
  factories sprang up in railroad cities.
• Railroads brought new jobs
• Newport News, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Alexandria,
  Richmond, Petersburg

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Reconstruction

• The railroad also caused economic growth in other
  areas such as Southwest Virginia, especially in
  the Appalachian Plateau. Why might this
  statement be true?

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Reconstruction

• Coal was discovered in the late 1800s in the
  Appalachian Plateau
• the railroad was able to transport the coal
• from Tazewell to port cities such as Norfolk
• This contributed to economic growth of Southwest
  Virginia

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• Tazewell to Norfolk

http//www.wm.edu/geology/virginia/va_counties_phy
s.pdf
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