Results for Civil War. Go Social Studies Go | Reconstruction Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment The Emancipation Proclamation might have given a knockout blow to slavery but it was the Thirteenth Amendment that killed the peculiar institution once and for all. Lincoln and the anti-slavery crowd were no fools. They knew that once the war was over the newly admitted ex-Confederate states might try to get the Emancipation declared unconstitutional. There were plenty of pro-slavery judges on the bench and the Civil War had done little to change their opinions. The only way to give emancipation the teeth that it needed was to make it apart the Constitution. A new amendment to the Constitution hadn’t been proposed in 60 years, especially not one this controversial.
Slavery had already driven a wedge between the states that had led to the bloodiest conflict the nation had ever seen or would ever be seen since. But then the election of 1864 swept more of the conservatives out of office and replaced them with Republicans who had no love for slavery. Radical Republicans. Dueling Plans The summer of 1864 was a tense time for Lincoln. The man that we think of as being a great American hero was fighting to save his job. The November elections were only a few months away and his opponent was none of than George Mc Clellan, the general that Lincoln had fired back in 1862. Mc Clellan was busy nasty smear campaign against Lincoln that summer on a promise to let the South go peacefully and end this bloody conflict.
Lincoln had vowed to see this war to the end. The year is 1864, and the Union is far from being reunited. Lincoln knew that the Confederate cause was hopeless. Lincoln put forward a plan for reconstructing the Union by offering a pardon to anyone (except high ranking Confederate officials) who swore an oath of loyalty to the Union. To sweeten the deal, Lincoln arranged for ex-Confederate states to rejoin the Union through his Ten Percent Plan.
When Lincoln presented his plan to Congress he did not get the warm welcome that he had hoped. 1860-1861: The Country Goes To War. By the Civil War Trust, Endorsed by History™ Grades: Middle School Lesson Downloads Common Core Standards NCSS Standards Related Resources Approximate Length of Time: 50 minutes Goal: Students will be able to explain the state of the nation and list the sequence of events leading to the Civil War. Objectives: 1. Materials: 1. Anticipatory Set/Hook: Using the Entrance Pass, have students provide three significant events or developments that led up to the American Civil War. Procedure: Print out the PowerPoint prior to class. Activity 1 1. Activity 2 1. Closure: 1. Assessment in this Lesson: 1. Print By the Civil War Trust, Endorsed by History™ Grades: Middle School Lesson Downloads Common Core Standards NCSS Standards Related Resources Approximate Length of Time: 50 minutes Goal: Students will be able to explain the state of the nation and list the sequence of events leading to the Civil War.
Objectives: 1. Materials: 1. Anticipatory Set/Hook: Procedure: Print out the PowerPoint prior to class. Activity 1 1. Activity 2. American History - HubPages.com. U.S. Civil War 1861-1865. Jump To: Fort Sumter Attacked - First Bull Run - Shiloh - Second Bull Run - Antietam - Fredericksburg - Chancellorsville - Gettysburg - Chickamauga - Chattanooga - Cold Harbor - March to the Sea - Lee Surrenders - Lincoln Shot November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free...
" is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. December 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Auction and Negro sales, Atlanta, Georgia. 1861 February 9, 1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S.
Army officer, as president. Civil War Trust: Saving America's Civil War Battlefields. Civil War lessons. Post-1865: Effects of the War. By the Civil War Trust, Endorsed by History™ Grades: Middle School Lesson Downloads Common Core Standards NCSS Standards Related Resources Approximate Length of Time: 50 minutes Goal: Students will identify and discuss the effects of the American Civil War. Objectives: 1. Materials: 1. Anticipatory Set/Hook: 1. Procedure: Activity 1 1. A. 2. Activity 2 1. Activity 3 1. Closure: Have students consider the question: What do you think will happen during Reconstruction under Johnson’s plan? Assessment in this Lesson 1. Print. Movie Clips. Lincoln's Speeches. Gettysburg Address. Printable Version Gettysburg Address Digital History ID 4014 Author: Abraham Lincoln Date:1863 Annotation: The Gettysburg Address was delivered on November 19, 1863, several months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle for "a new birth of freedom"--his vision for a nation that provides equality for all of its citizens, creates a unified nation no longer dominated by states' rights, and defines democracy in terms of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech and one of the most quoted speeches in history. Document: 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. Copyright 2013 Digital History. (5) America, the Story of US - Civil War. CW Casualties by Battle. Putting CW Casualties in Perspective. Civil War Deaths and 9/11 Printable Version Digital History ID 4520From the National Park Service: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2007, by John A. Latschar, Ph.D., the superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
In 1860, the total population of the United States was 31.4 million; 3.8 million men - approximately 12 percent of the total population - were enrolled in military service; 620,000 lost their lives (2 percent of the total population) in the war. If there were another Civil War today, and those same percentages were still true, then: Today’s population is approximately 300 million people (Census data, 2008); approximately 37 million people would be enrolled in military service; and approximately 6 million Americans would die. Another way to illustrate this point is that the death toll at Gettysburg, measured as a percentage of the nation's population, was 21 times that of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Slavery in US.