Aim: What was the outcome of the Civil War and how did it impact the United States?

Do Now:
What battle began the Civil War?
Why was the Battle of Antietam significant?

Lincoln Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus (no due process of law. Jailed traitors without a court decision.) This breaks individual liberties. Lincoln justified his actions in order to “preserve” the Union.


The Emancipation Proclamation

1863, freed all slaves in areas of rebellion, which was more of a symbolic action
Many criticized it for not freeing all slaves, but it did add a humanitarian objective to the war

Q: Research the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation. How did this change the cause of the war?

Prevented foreign powers from involvement
Shift from perserving to union to freeing the slaves (moral)


The Gettysburg Address

1863 Lincoln dedicated the cemetery and his short speech summarized the meaning and importance of the war

Gettysburg Address: Read this & explain what Lincoln's message was.
The Gettysburg Address full text delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery at the scene of the Battle Of Gettysburg of the American Civil War on November 19, 1863.
"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 dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 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. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — 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."

End of the War
The Battle of Gettysburg was the last time the South invaded the North.
After that the South fought a defensive war
The war ended in 1865 with General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House (VA) General Lee wanted to give it one more shot but the arrival of Union infantry, however, stopped the advance in its tracks. Lee's army was now surrounded on three sides. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9. This was the final engagement of the war in Virginia.
By the end of the war the South was devastated.


Closure Question: How did the Civil War bring temporary and lasting changes to American Society? It freed all of the black men and ended the issue over slavery, but the South's economy was destroyed while the North's economy boomed.

What would you do? If you were a Northerner after the Civil War, Would you treat the southerners as enemies or as friends and why?


End of the War/Civil War Amendments:

13th Amendment (1865) Ended Slavery
14th Amendment (1868) Granted CITIZENSHIP to newly freed
15th Amendment (1870) Gave newly freed the Right to vote



US History & Government
Mrs. Aliani
Use the review book pages to answer the following questions. When you complete all the questions please hand in. This will be graded as a test.
The Reconstructed Nation –
Plans for Reconstruction

Identify: Reconstruction
Explain Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction
Explain Johnson’s Plan for reconstruction
Who were the Radical Republicans and what was their Plan for Reconstruction (List 3 chief features)

Why did white southerners resent Radical Reconstruction?
Identify & Define: Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments


End of Reconstruction

Define & explain the “return” of the SOLID SOUTH.
Explain the outcome of the election of 1876.


White Control of South

List & explain 6 ways that African Americans rights were limited after reconstruction ended.
Identify: Ku Klux Klan, Freedmen's Bureau, segregation

Who was Booker T. Washington & what was his strategy?

Who was W.E.B. Du Bois & what was his strategy?