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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 163— Gettysburg Day 2 May 22, 2017

Focus: Who won day one? How are the armies going to line up on day 2?

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:none

I. GettysburgA. Day 1B. Day 2

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Gettysburg Culp’s Hill Cemetery Hill Seminary Ridge Big Round TopLittle Round Top Devil’s Den George Meade Fish Hook

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:What shape did the Union line up in to defend its lines?Why was General Lee in PA?Why was it called Devil’s Den?

NotesClass 163— Gettysburg Day 2

May 22, 2017

Day 2: By day two 150,000 Union and Confederate troops had converged on the little Pennsylvania town. The

southerners occupied a line Seminary Ridge. The northern men waited along Cemetery Ridge( in a fish hook defensive line) - a slightly more elevated crest that ran south toward two hills, Big and Little Round Top. Lee's plan called for an assault on the left, or southernmost, end of the Union line.

Devil’s Den Little Round Top

o Bayonet Charge

The most intense fighting-blood all over the rocks

Lee tries to attack the flanks of the Union

Union wants to keep the high ground

Fish Hook

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 164— Pickett’s Charge May 23, 2017

Focus: Identify these places and people that deal with the battle of Gettysburg: General Lee, General Meade, Devil’s Den, and Little Round Top.

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:None

I. Pickett’s Charge

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:General George Pickett Pickett’s Charge

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?What was the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg?Why did Lee attack the center of the Fish Hook?

NotesClass 164— Pickett’s Charge

May 23, 2017Pickett’s Charge-Gettysburg Day 3:

Pickett’s charge: 12,000 charge-5,000 survive

Lee’s Mistakes at Gettysburg:1. He doesn’t push to take the Round Tops on Day 12. He doesn’t force the Union to move off the Hill3. Frontal Attack-Pickett’s Charge

High Water Mark

1:00 P.M. Confederate Artillery tries to soften the enemy lines-3:00 P.M. Confederates advance

Day 3

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 165— Gettysburg Address May 24, 2017

Focus: Read the Gettysburg Address on the back of this paper.

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Homework: -Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:Gettysburg Address

I. Speakers at GettysburgA. Edward EverettB. Abraham Lincoln

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Edward Everett Abraham Lincoln score

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:How did the people respond to Lincoln’s speech?Who spoke the longest at Gettysburg?What was the historical significance of his speech?

Gettysburg Address

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 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.

Abraham LincolnNovember 19, 1863

NotesClass 165— Gettysburg Address

May 24, 2017

Nearly five months after the battle at Gettysburg, thousands came back to the town to dedicate a cemetery to those who had fallen. The town was packed and so were the hotels. Many individuals had to share rooms in the hotels. Governors from many of the states arrived to pay tribute to the many that gave their lives at this battle. Lincoln was one of the few to have his own room.

Lincoln was not the only speaker that day. Edward Everett spoke first. He spoke for nearly two hours. Lincoln sat quietly and patiently waited his turn.

Once Everett was done, Lincoln took his turn. Lincoln was not very popular at this time. Northerners didn’t like the way he was handling the war. Many, didn’t even realize he spoke at the event. Everett spoke for two hours, Lincoln spoke for about two minutes.

There were mixed reactions about Lincoln’s speech. The Chicago Tribune predicted that it would "live among the annals of man," while its competitor, the Chicago

Times, editorialized that "the cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances of the president."

Event orator Edward Everett wrote Lincoln the next day: "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."

Historians give Lincoln’s speech more credit than those who first heard it.

Lincoln’s speech defined what the war was about and really sums up the ideals that America was founded upon.

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 166— Hard War May 25, 2017

Focus: Why would the Confederacy be in such desperation to try to attack using a submarine? What advantages do submarines have? What disadvantages do they have?

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:Sherman’s march handout

I. The Wilderness CampaignII. A different view of warIII. Sherman’s March A. Where B. How Long C. Impact

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Robert E. Lee George McClellan William Tecumseh Sherman Ulysses S. GrantHard War Wilderness Campaign Hard War Georgia AtlantaSavannah Philip Sheridan Lt. George Dixon South Carolina CSS Hunley

Blockade

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:What is hard war?What was the difference between McClellan and Grant/Sherman? How did Grant change the way the war was fought?Who “skinned” Virginia?What was the overall impact on the South thanks to Sherman’s March?

Name:_______________________________________________ Date:_____________“War is cruelty….The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.”

“We have to destroy them.”“I will make Georgia howl.”

You are General Sherman. You have proposed to take 60,000 men and 25,000 horses on a “hard war” march through the heart of the South. You plan on “skinning the South.” You give each man only five days worth of rations. Lincoln is nervous and Grant feels unsure about your undertaking. As general of such a large fighting force, you need to come up with a strategy for fighting in a “foreign” land. Answer the following questions to come up with your strategy for victory.How will you feed your army?

Why can’t you stay in one location for very long?

What tactics will you use?

What areas will you target?

What parts of southern infrastructure will you target?

What kind of defenses do you envision the Confederates using against you?

How will you hold cities that you capture?

How will you navigate around torpedoes (land mines) in the roads?

How will you deal with the large number of African Americans that leave their homes and follow your army?

NotesClass 166— Hard War

May 25, 2017CSS Hunley:

Commanded by Lt. George Dixon First submarine in history to sink and enemy warship

o USS Housatonic Discovered in 1995

Wilderness Campaign: Grants attempts to capture Richmond

Robert E. Lee “It is well that war is so horrible, else we should grow too fond of it.”

Stonewall Jackson “He places no value on human life, caring for nothing so much as fighting, unless it be praying.”

George McClellan “I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield, with its mangled corpses and the poor suffering wounded!

Victory has no charms for me while purchased at such cost….”

Ulysses S. Grant “A new General was at the head of affairs, and he was going in, with jaws set and nerves of steel, to smash, kill,

burn, annihilate, sparing nothing, looking neither right or left, till the red road had been hewed through Richmond.”

Who would win according to Grant? o The side “which never counted its dead.”

William Tecumseh Sherman “regard the death and mangling of a couple of thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash.” The first “modern general”

In Grant’s mind, he is going to skin the South. Before, he ordered small cavalry bands to go about the South and mostly destroy large plantations that were loyal to the Southern cause. Now instead of small raiding parties, he is going to send entire armies on these missions. Grant would order General Sheridan to march through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. However, Grant would leave the major skinning of the South to General Sherman.

Sherman will take 60,000 men and 25,000 horses on his march. Lincoln is extremely nervous about the idea and General Grant, now in charge of the army, is also unsure. Sherman would also send out what they called “bummers.” These were foragers that made things personal for the south as they would raid homes of money and other valuables. Let’s look at Sherman’s own words and what he intended to do:

“Generally, war is destruction and nothing else.” “War is cruelty and cannot refine it.” “I have made war vindictively; war is war, and you can make nothing else of it.” “Men go to war to kill or to get killed and should expect no tenderness.” “the crueler [war] is, the sooner it will be over.” Death “is popularly considered the maximum punishment in war, but it is not; reduction to poverty brings prayers

for peace more surley and more quickly than does the destruction of human life.” “All that has gone before is mere skirmishing. The war now begins.”

Sherman will start in Atlanta. Sherman will take the city, but he knows once he leaves the Confederates will just move back in.

Before leaving the city, he burns it. Sherman’s burning of Atlanta is often exaggerated. He really only burned 30% of the city. Once the city is

burned, Sherman marches towards the ocean. He takes 60,000 soldiers on his march. Soldiers only received five days of rations-anything they could not eat would be destroyed. As Sherman phrased

it,“In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested no destruction of such property should be permitted; but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local hostility, then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility.”

Sherman needed to communicate on his march. He told one of his officers, “See here…burn a few barns occasionally, as you go along. I can’t understand those signal flags, but I know what smoke means.”

. One of Sherman’s soldiers described it differently, they “destroyed all we could not eat…burned their cotton & gins, spilled their sorghum, burned & twisted their R. Roads and raised Hell generally as you know an army can when turned loose.”

12. Once he got to the sea he turns and heads up through the Carolinas and burns Columbia, SC and Raleigh, NC. Sherman had not intended to burn Columbia, but the troops got out of hand and the city was burned including homes. “The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina.”

Results of Sherman’s march:100,000 Confederate deserters in 1865650 miles in 100 days3 state capitalsLoses 600 men out of 60,000“Thousands of people may perish, but they now realise that war means something else than vain glory and boasting…I have taught people what war is.”

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 167—The War EndsMay 26, 2017

Focus: What do you already know about General Lee? General Grant? Would they respect each other? Why or why not?

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Homework:-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:None

I. Lee and GrantII. PetersburgIII. Appomattox

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Petersburg siege Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant PetersburgAppomattox“I can stand two months of siege work; no more charging to be required of your humble sergeant-major.”

“Pleasant life we lead here, I can assure you. Yesterday we had our first rain [in] six weeks….The trenches were half full of mud and water, as [were] all the officers’ quarters. I slept last night in a perfect mud-hole, half drenched myself. Today we have a regular dog-day. Hot and sultry, a day that makes one feel dirty and sticky all over.”

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Where did Lee surrender?Why was Petersburg important?

Why was Lee’s surrender so devastating to the South?

NotesClass 167—The War Ends

May 26, 2017Petersburg:

Grant lays siege to the city for 9 months trench warfare was common Union-better prepared-had Railroad run right behind their lines to supply them Union takes the city

o Leads to the fall of Richmond, the CSA capital o At this point, Lee’s army has everything it needs except food

April of 1865, Confederate troops are picking through manure for undigested corn

The Surrender: Appomattox Court House, VA Wilmer McLean’s House Lee surrenders to Grant Terms of surrender

o sign parole-go home-amnesty to allo Grant sends rations to hungry Confederate troopso Can keep horses/muleso officers can keep pistols

Within a month of Lee's surrender, the remainder of the Confederate forces give up the fight

Results of the War:• 360,000 Union deaths• 250,000 Confederate deaths• bitterness• resentment-South loses war for independence• Turning point in U.S. History—2nd American Revolution

• states’ rights take a hit• Federal Government grew• African Americans gain freedom