1. Who introduced tobacco into the Jamestown colony? Who helped to create an alliance with the Powhatan tribe? This Day in History: February 5, 1631- Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. February 5, 1777- Georgia formally adopts a new state constitution and becomes the first U.S. state to abolish the inheritance practices of primogeniture and entail. February 5, 1934- Henry Louis Aaron Jr., the baseball slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers, is born in Mobile, Alabama. February 5, 1937- President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal. February 5, 1988- Two federal grand juries in Florida announce indictments of Panama military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

3. On April 12, 1861 the Confederates bombarded Union troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina when Lincoln tried to resupply. After Fort Sumter the upper south seceded. Lincoln declared martial law in the border states.

5. Union Industry Population Naval power Transportation infrastructure Fought defensively Better generals Better soldiers, more experienced Confederacy

6. New technologies combined with old tactics. The Minie ball bullet made rifles more accurate. Lack of sanitation

8. Winfield Scott developed the Anaconda Plan. Meant to slowly choke the south with blockades and attacks.

10. Planned to fight defensively. Wanted to choose battles wisely like Washington during the Revolution.

12. Read pages 472-473, the excerpt from the book Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt. Answer questions 1-3 We will go over these on Monday. Then continue working on Standards 8.32 and 8.34.

13. The Union wanted to control the vital railroad junction at Manassas. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became famous in this battle when he held the line. The Union retreated and the South gained its first victory.

15. At the beginning of April McClellan started the siege of Yorktown. He then advanced to Richmond. Lee took over Southern command near Richmond and pushed McClellan back in the 7 Days’ Battle

17. The Confederacy Captured Union ship Merrimack, turned it into ironclad, and renamed it the Virginia. Met by a Union ironclad, the Monitor, in battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862 and it forced the Confederates to withdraw The Monitor’s success saved the Union fleet and continued the blockade.

18. Costliest day of fighting in U.S. history. Union had 12,000 casualties; Confederacy had 13,000 The Confederates were forced to retreat. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation shortly after this battle.

22. In February of 1862 Ulysses S. Grant knocked out Forts Henry and Donelson. Shortly after Henry and Donelson the Union Army captured Nashville.

23. Massive victory for Grant and the North. The South were winning the battle before Union reserves arrived by steamboat. More casualties than all previous wars combined. Each side had about 10,000 casualties.