Civil+War

Similarities and Differences between the 13 secceded states Similarities
 * Laws of the united states no longer hold any ground in the states
 * The new nations keep their old rights
 * Most blame Abraham Lincoln
 * Treaties acts of congress and american laws stay in effect
 * They say that the federal goverment has perverted their powers and oppressed the slave holding states

Differences
 * Some states want to join with others and make a new country others like florida want to become their own nation
 * Some states had open and free votes between the people and not officials in a meeting

APPARTS

__Florida__ A- The people of the state of Florida P- Jan 10 1861 in a hall in florida P- Before I read this i thought that florida and the other states where going to make their own set of rights instead of adopt the american rights A- This was meant for congress and the president R- This was meant to tell them that the state has felt wronged and is now becoming an independant nation to freely exersizes their "rights" T- The main idea is that Florida is beyond angry with the goverment to such a point that they are becoming a seperate nation S- This is signifigant because cotton grown in florida will not go to the U.S economy which will have a huge effect by taking away a large amount of money

__South Carolina__ A- The people of the state of South Carolina P- Charlesaton South Carolina December 20 1860 P- Before this i knew that South Carolina was the first to secced but i did not know they completley annulled the constitution without keeping any parts A- The President and Congress of the united States R- This was created becasue the people of South Carolina felt like they where being abused by the federal goverment and they couldnt exersize their rights T- The main idea is that South Carolina felt they needed slaves to survive and the goverment limiting slavery was going to kill them S- This was significant becasue the U.S economy was built on slavery and by the states where slavery was legalized leaving would collapse the entire economy

Refection The reasons behind the acts do make sense to me becasue it is true that the states needed slaves to survive and the goverment getting closer and closer to saying slaves where illegal everywhere would have a huge ecominc whiplash. Though if I where living in these states I would not sign the act because obviously the U.S wouldnt let us go without a fight. Also slaves arent //needed// to pick cotton theyre could just be paid workers so getting rid of slavery all together i dont think would completly ruin the economy

__06/06/11__ __Two men with cigar photo I SEE IT MEANS__ I See It Means
 * 1) two men each giving the other a cigar
 * 2) They have army uniforms
 * 3) They are younger men
 * 4) Each is holding their chest with the other arm
 * 5) They are sharing cigars which indicates they are trying to relax
 * 1) The men are freinds
 * 2) They are men in the army by the looks of the uniforms they might be union soldiers
 * 3) Probably just men in their late teens early 20s fighting for their country
 * 4) They might have an injury which causes them to hold their chests in pain
 * 5) This might be before a battle so they are trying to settle themselves to try and survive

__List of things in the pictures__ Robert E Lee Paragraph In early 1861, President [|Abraham Lincoln] invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined because his home state of Virginia was, despite his wishes, seceding from the Union. When Virginia declared its secession from the [|Union] in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state.[|[][|1][[[]|]]] Lee's eventual role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to [|President] [|Jefferson Davis]. If I where in General Robert E Lee's positon I would fight for succesion and with my family and freinds. This is only because I could not bring myself to be a traitor to the people who loved me and cared for me. Even though I love this country as Robert E Lee did I would have to fight for Massachusetts
 * Very young boys in service uniforms
 * ages around 9 12 and 17
 * all but the man in the bottom picture are wearing darker uniforms which tells me that the bottom one is a confederate
 * The top left boy might be a letter boy because if his bag
 * I think the bottom boy is the only fighter in these pictures becasue he seems old enough to be on the battle field
 * Robert Edward Lee** (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate [|Army of Northern Virginia] in the [|American Civil War]. The son of U.S. Revolutionary War hero, [|Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee III], and a top graduate of [|West Point], Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and [|combat engineer] in the [|United States Army] for 32 years before resigning to join the Confederate cause. By the end of the American Civil War, he was commanding general of the [|Confederate army]. He became a postwar icon of the South's "[|lost cause]," and is still admired to this day.

I Dont think there is a way to not choose a sede in the civil war because you either agree or disagree with the values of the unioun ond confed. If you are in the grey area and agree with some valuse then the side with most agreed values is the side you choose.

‍4) Fellow Americans or Traitors ... or both?
06/07/11 Strategy for the north The northern strategy was to cut the south out from the outside world while the south strategy was to hold out agisnt northern invasion and wait for them to get tired and give up so that the north would reconize them as there own country

Support of Technology during Civil War
 * 200 rpm Gatling Gun- which mowed down the enemy and kept them away it destroyed alot of the enemy numbers and wasted ammo so that the good fighters could actually fight the war, generals actually sacrificed their men to fight.
 * Ballons to see for up to 6 miles- this created modern day comoflauge and was primitave recon
 * Bullet- The Minie ball flew straighter and exploded inside a persons body

Confederates were winning because they had more experience better strategies The enemy lacked training and they where on their home turf =__//**The union has to force the confeds. to rejoin**//__=

Lee had to go to gettysburg to get shoes for his men at gettysburg the war shifted because the union went on defense.

To win the war we must bring in a new general and let him invade the south then completly **//__destroy__//** it burn it down.

[] Emancipation Proclomation disagree

__**06/8/11**__ 1. The first day of fighting at gettysburg the confeds. where winning the battle because they had more people and where able to push the union back and make them retreat. They could have pushed them even farther back if they had actually pursed the u ion instead of letting them go to Cemetry Hill and Cup Hill 2. On the evening of July 2nd the confederates had seized part of cup's hill but everywhere else the union had kept their postitons and the fighting was indisisive 3. Pickett's assult was ordered because previously the confederateds attacked from the flank and not the front then by bombarding the 1 mile "no mans land" a frontal assult was thought to be unexpected, though it was the opposite and the union killed many confeds while the rest retreated to safety. 4. The Confeds couldnt keep fighting because they had suffered to many casulties and could not continue fighting

Part B crocodoc



Main idea of part A union soldiere fought in gettsyburg Talking about horrors of war marched 34 miles to gettysburg with no food non stop then they fought immedietly after battle they could move a single step without stepping on a body

Part B questions 1.Edward Porter Alexander didnt approve or disapprove of the seccesion of Georgia he didnt even think theyre was going to be a civil war. 2.The U.S army wanted Alexander to go to Califorinia for two months before he went to georgia so that he qould miss out on the "90 day" conflict 3. His justication was that he wasnt being a traitor it was that he was fighting for his people's liberty

With more than two years of war gone by, and with no certain end in sight, President Abraham Lincoln needed to reassure, buoy, and rededicate the spirit of the nation to continue the struggle until its ultimate end. He accomplished this when he was asked to deliver "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication of a cemetery for the Gettysburg Union dead: 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 so 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 cannot dedicate­we cannot consecrate­we can not hallow­this 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 us­that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion­­that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain­­that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom­­and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

**1.** How long after the battle did Lincoln give his address? 4 months later **2.** What did he say about the men who were buried in the cemetery? That they are brave and they fought for the conservation of this great nation **3.** How did he give meaning to their sacrifice? He gave meaning by saying they will not die in vain and that the nation will live on because of their sacrifice **4.** What was it that Lincoln wanted the people of the United States to do for the dead soldiers? To never forget them and their great sacrifice

The emancipation proclomation was a strategic move becasue the southerners went to war with the north for the main reason of slavery and that if it was illegalized then they wouldnt be able to survive. Then by paying the owners for their slaves that voids the problem of bankruptcy. Emancipation Proclomation only freed slaves in rebellion states MO MD DE KY these where slave states i the union
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The south proclamed that they where figthing to defend slavery so no other country would help them. Becasase of the emancipation proclomation If the british joined the confeds thewn they would destoy america and take it over letting the south still be the confed states. The border states still had slaves he threatend the people in the border states if they talked about seccesion theywould be killed. This was in violation of the constitution. Another flaw was that Confeds would drop slaves and britian would join them.

The emanciptation proclomation was the document that pretty much made the south cut off from the world in the way that they couldnt get outside help from other countries but it also made him go agaisnt the constitution by making the border states go into martial law because they where talking about secesion if they left DC would be surronded by the confederacy and they would lose the capitol losing the war