1. Warm-Up 1.Journal Review – get a piece of paper and your journal. TODAY’s Activity 1.Strategies and historical figures 2.How do the strategies correlate to the advantages of each side. OBJ: Explain the issues surrounding significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter, the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, the assassination of Lincoln, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. [8.8.B] Learning Target: I can explain how the strategies were supported by the advantages of each side. Monday 28, 2016 TasksDue DateComments Free range seating 1 st 7 th 8 th - 1 day 3 rd - 2 days Journal ReviewToday

2. Journal Review – March 28, 2016 1.Who were the generals for the South and the North? +2 2.What attack signaled the beginning of the Civil War and who won ?+2 3.Name a border state and explain why hey were called Border states? +2 4.What were soldiers from the South called? +1 5.What were soldiers from the North called? +1 6.What was a strength of the North?+1 7.What was a strength of the South?+1 8.Based om homework_ What was the name of the strategy that would smother the South’s economy?

3. Strategies of the South Defensive position only –They hoped that the North would soon get tired of fighting and agree to leave them alone. King Cotton –Planned on using their cotton production as leverage in the war. –The world needed cotton made in the South so they thought by withholding cotton to the rest of the world they might get other nations to help them –This failed because other nations had A LOT of cotton from the year before so they didn’t need more.

4. Strategies of the South Cont. Once the South’s other plans didn’t work they tried to go on the offensive and hurt the North by wrecking their morale (then maybe they would get tired of fighting)

5. Strategies of the North The Anaconda Plan: Designed to smother the South’s economy –Blockade of the South’s coastline (use of the Navy) so no goods or people could get in or out. –Take control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two –This plan’s drawback was that it would take time –It worked!

6. Strategies of the North Emancipation Proclamation –Issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862 –Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in states currently in rebellion after January 1, 1863 were free –It DID NOT free slaves in the Border States (only ones in Confederate Territory)

7. Strategies of the North Cont. Sherman’s March to the Sea (total war) –General William Sherman and his men marched from Tennessee, living off of the land, to the Atlantic Coast of Georgia. –The soldiers destroyed EVERYTHING in their path (enemy soldiers, entire towns, crops, livestock, railroads….everything!)

8. Major Players: The North A. Abraham Lincoln –From Illinois and was a member of the Republican Party –President of the Union during the Civil War –Famous speeches included his First and Second Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address. –Issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing all slaves in areas then in rebellion. –Through his leadership the Union was preserved and slavery was abolished after his assassination in 1865.

9. Major Players: The North B. Ulysses S. Grant –Supreme Military Commander of the Union Army –Union General during the Civil War –Accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.

10. II. Major Players: The South A. Jefferson Davis –From Mississippi –Served in the US Senate prior to the Civil War –Supported Secession –Became President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

11. Major Players: The South B. Robert E. Lee –Fought in the Mexican War –Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia –Supreme Military Commander of the Confederacy –Defeated Union troops at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. –Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.

12. Warm-Up : Review Questions next slide TODAY’s Activity 1.Emancipation Proclamation- Read document 2.Reading like a Historian / Political cartoons OBJ: Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his inaugural addresses Learning Target: I can interpret politics cartoons about the Emancipation Proclamation using OPTICS. Tuesday Mar 29,2016 TasksDue DateComments Vocabulary testApril 13, 2016 Journal ReviewBe Ready

13. Emancipation Proclamation: freed slaves in the rebel states (not border states). Inspired Northerners to continue fighting

18. Warm-Up TODAY’s Activity: Wednesday AM- Reading STAAR Thursday AM- Math STAAR PM classes – PAT time games OBJ: Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his inaugural addresses Learning Target: I can do my best on the STAAR test Wednesday and Thursday Mar 30-31,2016 TasksDue DateComments Vocabulary TestApril 13, 2016 Journal ReviewBe Ready

19. Warm-Up : Journal review TODAY’s Activity: Reading Like A Historian- complete questions and quick write. OBJ: Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his inaugural addresses Learning Target: Friday April 1, 2016 TasksDue DateComments QuizFri, Mar 27 Journal ReviewBe Ready

20. Warm-Up : TODAY’s Activity: 1.A Nation Divided _ activity to explain battles 2.Habeas Corpus, Draft Laws, Meda l of Honor 54 th Mass Regiment Homestead and Morill Act Important People of the War OBJ: Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his inaugural addresses Learning Target: Monday April 4, 2016 TasksDue DateComments QuizFri, Mar 27 Journal ReviewBe Ready

21. Clara Barton: “The Angel of the Battlefield” Red Cross created during the Civil War by Clara Barton

22. DateBattleVictorSignificance April 12, 1861Ft Sumter July 21, 18611 st Bull Run (Virginia) Shiloh (Tennessee) September 17-18, 1862Antietam (Maryland) July 1- 4, 1863 July 4, 1863 (6 weeks) Vicksburg (Mississippi)Union Sherman’s March (Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina) April 9, 1865 Union Palmito Ranch South won the battle but had already lost the war

23. Ft. Sumter (South Carolina): first shots fired in the Civil War

24. Battle of Antietam: bloodiest battle of war … inspired Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation

25. Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) was the most decisive battle in the war Vicksburg (Mississippi) gave Union control of the Mississippi River July 4th, 1863

26. Warm-Up 1.Journal review TODAY’s Activity 1.House Divided Chapter 18 lesson 4 OBJ: Explain the issues surrounding significant events of the Civil War, including the causes, Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, the assassination of Lincoln, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. [8.8.B] Learning Target: I can demonstrate my understanding of the Civil War Tuesday, April 5, 2016 TasksDue DateComments QuizToday Journal ReviewBe Ready

27. Gettysburg Address

28. ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATIONOF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG 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… …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.

29. Appomattox Courthouse: Lee surrenders to Grant to end the Civil War

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