Monday Nov. 30 Flashcards
Layers of Historical Identity
Taking their cultural background and incorporate in America ( Norwegian food)
Secession of Southern States
South Carolina
- and other states start to leave Union
- Seven by the end of 1860
President Buchanan
-leaves and lets Lincoln deal with problem
Compromise?
- John Cricketon
- extend line of Missouri Compromise to California
- compromise is not an option anymore; states leaving
Lincoln Response
Fort Sumter: choices
- controlled by Union in south
- What to do with it: reinforce the fort (look strong), withdraw/abandon the fort (look weak), bring food and supplies to the fort (middle road option)
Lincoln calls for troops because of attacks on the Fort
Four more states leave
Four border slave states decide to stay
Early Fighting in the East
First Battle: Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
- McDowell routed by Beauregard
- Lesson taught:
- Longer war than anticipated
- Lincoln gets 75,000 (90 day volunteers); overwhelm south and things go back to normal
- McDowell was made North retreat
- South does not go after them
- General McClellan takes over for North
Continues and Ends
North: (more workers, soldiers)
- population
- industry
- established government
- moral cause
South: (familiar shooting weapons,
- Defensive posture
- martial abilities
- independence
- King Cotton/overseas help
Reality: Myron E Stowell
- To injuries to fight
- helped out in the infirmary
- reenlist after his time is up.
- harsh experience
- people’s views change (Ex. African Americans- should not be slaves but not equal)
Grand Army of Republic
Chapter across America
-remember the experience and comrades that have fallen
Early Fighting in the West
U.S. Grant in Tennessee
-Grant taking Forts in the state
-gets in trouble in the Battle of Shiloh Church (April 6-7, 1862)
Southern general killed and their army moved down south
almost looses a chunk of his army
-Lincoln looks at Grant a solid man, move up ranks, later to be President
A danger year for the Union 1862
Peninsular Campaign
-McClellan; reluctant to use Union troops
-does to Virginia Peninsula, meets Robert E. Lee
-Stonewall and Lee stop McClellan
-Lincoln doesn’t want McClellan anymore
Lee invades North on his own
-McClellan and Lee at Antietam
-McClellan stops and Lee goes back south
-6400 killed 17000 wounded
-McClellan does not follow; Lincoln removes him
Photographer: Matthew Brady
photos of battlefields
- media has bias to figure out who is good and bad
- inspires to be active (need help)
- first war with photography to report conflict
- people realize how brutal and graphic the war is
Artist representation
- glory of the battle
- promote war?
- sell to private individuals to hang on walls (Battle of Bull Run)
Civil War extras
Medicine:
- no antibiotics
- opium and similar painkillers were available
Women:
- gave an opportunity to leave out of sphere of household (in factories- making supplies) businesses, plantations
- Clara Barten and other were nurses to help out with war
- Women can do what men could do (job wise)
- Nationhood grows: unity of United States
Black Troops:
- After the battle of Antietam
- Emancipate slaves in south
- strategic reason to get rid of slavery
- large amount for the northern army
- War first about keep union together; after Emancipation Proclamation- about freeing slaves (Jan 1, 1863)
- will not protect private property anymore
- Slaves run north, protected by law
- moral cause increase
- Things are changing, when black troops walk through south (mindset)
- Putting life on the line: how can rights can be questioned now? (idea of nationalism, nationhood)
