Civil+War

Opening Activity/Do Now: 6/2/11

I see:
 * They look alike
 * both seem to be soldiers
 * theyre smoking something, and they're helping each other do it
 * one guy has stripes on his arm, one doesnt
 * sitting down on something
 * they have balls on they're hats
 * one of them looks scared
 * They are brothers, but they're on different sides

It means:
 * both from mary land
 * the brother on the right fought for the union
 * brother on the left fought for the confederacy
 * theyre both twins

My Thoughts:

They were twins and had different thoughts about slavery, and they didnt want to kill each other, maybe they tryed to stay away from each other, so they did have to kill each other, spliting families.

Task after reading aabsout Robert E Lee:

If it was my job to take massachusetts back, for trying to allow slavery I would go to take massachusetts back, because I dont want to see my hometown to do what I despise the most, I wouldnt want to see slaves in my home working, I want to be friends with them, so I'd join the army to retake massachusetts.

Important piece: It wasnt about slavey anymore, it was fight for your life and family.

Prediction of age:
 * 10
 * 14
 * 12
 * 18

**Civil War Themes**

‍1) Morality (conscience) vs. Financial Stability
In the civil war, times were tough, so people had to steal or commit crimes to survive, and provide for they're families, and people were poor.

‍2) Defend a home state or a home country? Either way you're losing part of your home.
This theme had to do with Robert E. Lee because he was an abolishionist, but he decided to fight for the confederates because his home state was virginia and that state suceeded.

‍3) Morality vs. Military Strategy
Military Strategy because this would be needed for a better cause, and there will always be sacrifices no matter what.

‍4) Fellow Americans or Traitors ... or both?
In war its both because its all about honoring your country, or you hometown, and family and those are 2 things of equal value, but you could only choose one. Differences APPARTS for Missouri: A- State of Missouri P- October 31, 1861, Neosho, Missouri P- Missouri was a southern state and wanted to secede from the Union so they decided to join the confederacy A- The Union R- The state of Missouri secession acts said they seceded and why they wanted to. They felt that the Union wasn't letting them have their rights under the Constitution, and they used to country's militia to attack their own state. T- To explain why they have seceded. S- Its important becuse it shows why another southern state has suceeded and why, and it could be all the same reasons why states suceed.
 * Many states thought that if south carolina seceeded then they could seceed too
 * Didnt like Union laws
 * Most states didnt like the Union wanted to leave

APPARTS for Louisiana: A- The people of the state of Louisiana P- Convention at Baton Rouge, January 26, 1861 P- Louisiana was a slave state A- The Union R- They were saying that they are leaving the union, and everyone in the Union under the constitution T- That Louisiana has the right to suceed if they want to S- That Louisiana wanted to be their own free and independent state, and it was legal



Opening Activity 6/7/11: 1. The Union's fighting strategy was the anaconda plan, a plan named after a snake that constricts itself around you, so basically the Union plans to surround the Confederate Army. The Confederates used the cotton diplomacy by restricting exports. 2. I support the new technology during the civil war, because the weapons the Union had were 10 times the weapons they had before. They had gattling guns that fired 200 shots in less than a couple of minutes, also new shapes of bullets that allowed soldiers to reload faster, and shoot farther. The Union also had gunships that could survive cannonball fire, and balloons that people could go in to view the land. 3. I think the Confederates were winning, because they had the best general in the world at the time, Robert E. Lee and the Union was losing too many soldiers. Activity 6/7/11: People died in the Civil War because the new technology was made so it could wipe out many soldiers in a few minutes. People used gatling guns that could fire 200 bullets in one minute. Also that people fought in straight lines so the gattling gun could wipe out soldiers in matter of minutes. The Confederates had 2 advantages, They had to defend themselves, had to survive, and they had the home turf. Also they had effective competent officers.

Activity 6/8/11: Reading 1 Activity:
 * 1) The Confederacy was winning by the first day, because they attacked the Union's soldiers early in the morning. Also that the Union soldiers were outnumbered, and they had to retreat.
 * 2) On July 2nd it was indecisive on who won because on July 2nd is when the Union and the Confederacy were against each other a mile apart and both sides had advantages and disavantages.
 * 3) Lee's plan was to flank the Union's left and right after a bombardment, because it worked the previous day, but it failed because General Meade anticipated this move, and the Union killed many Confederate soldiers.
 * 4) General Lee withdrawed from Gettysburg because there were so many casualties and wounded soldiers, so he had no choice but withdraw, and they could no longer continue the battle.

Reading 2: Part A Main Idea: A veteran from that Battle of Gettysburg, that keeps a journal of everything that happens to him, and around him at the Battle, and after, also describes the battle in every way. Part A Questions:
 * 1) Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a private in the Battle of Gettysburg
 * 2) That the Union won the Battle, that he survived while many other soldiers died
 * 3) He was very excited that the Union won, because he didnt want to die from the start.

Reading 2: Part B Main Idea: A veteran from the Battle of Gettysburg and he was in the U.S. Army but he resigned because his homeland Georgia suceeded and he didnt want to be looked as a "coward'. Part B Questions:
 * 1) He felt that when Georgia suceeded that he knew he was going to resign for a few weeks because Georgia was his homeland.
 * 2) The U.S. Army offered Alexander the choice of not going against his men in the U.S. Army.
 * 3) He said he didnt want to be seen as a coward.

Reading 2: Part C Main Idea: A veteran from the Battle of Gettysburg notices that there are many soldiers from the Union that resign to join the Confederacy because of family, homeland, and personal thoughts, also that the Confederacy didnt have the best captain's as well such as Robert E. Lee there were many that were bad, and had bad military strategies. Part C Questions:
 * 1) Captain W.T. Magruder fought for both sides because he was probably an abolishionist, but fighting for his family is worth more than saving another man's life.
 * 2) I think Moore didn't give the order to charge because i think he knew that if people charged soldiers then they would die, and like it said in the text, it wasn't his responsibility.

All Parts Questions:
 * 1) I think these personal accounts are better than textbooks, because it is more relable than a textbook made by a college student, or by somebody who hasn't experienced the history. Also I do believe that they show personal suffering because they tell the story from their perspective.
 * 2) The disavantages of personal accounts are that there are no ways to find out if the infomation is correct or fake.

Reading 3: Do Now 6/9/11: The Emancipation Proclamatioon was a strategic move and not made by feelings because, when slaves were released, they left the Confederacy and the Confederacy's supplies went down and food did to, and also slaves joined the U.S. Army. If the south got rid of slavery, britain would join the war, and if britian joined then we would win the war, and we would be british once again.
 * 1) Two years have gone by after the Battle of Gettysburg is when Lincoln gave his address
 * 2) He said that this is where the death's stop, for the people who gave their lives for a united nation
 * 3) He gave meaning by saying that they gave their lives for the hope that the nation would come back together
 * 4) To make a new government for people, and freedom, and that it will never perish from earth

Classwork 6/9/11: The flaw in the Emancipation Proclamation is that rebelling states had to release slaves, but border slave states didnt have to, and i think slaves got angry.

Answer: The north is fighting for slavery, but there is slavery in the north, this is very hypocritical.