US History - civil war part 2

1. US History – CHEE
Lecture - the Civil War Part II:
America’s Second Revolution, 1861-1865

2. War Transforms the North
o The Northern Economic Boom
o Women Expand the Wartime Workforce
o Dissent and Protest in the Union States
o Building Consensus Through Military Victory
o African Americans Battle Confederates and
Prejudice

3. Women filling cartridges at the U.S. Arsenal at Watertown
Mass – Harper’s Weekly, June 1861

4. Assault of the Second Louisiana (Colored) Regiment on the
Confederate Works at Port Hudson, May 27, 1863
African Americans – 200K in the Union Army – 1865, 10% of the military,
134K+ escaped slaves from the South, 37K died for the Union.

5. Sharp Competition for Unskilled Jobs
contributed to the NY Draft Riot of 1863
An Irishman says to a
Black man
“Well, ye may be a
man and a brother,
sure enough; but ti’s
little hospitality ye’ll
get out of yer
relations on this dock,
me ould buck!”
Vanity Fair, August 2, 1862

6. The New York Draft Riots – July 1863
Worst set of riots – 4
days of violence – 100
dead

7. Union Victory, Gettysburg, July 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dlggkx6mks&list=PLA8CC511DE0CB8715&index=23&feature=plpp_video

8. War Transforms the South
o Urbanization and Industrialization
o Dissent and Protest in the Confederate States

9. Richmond in Ruins
Retreating Confederate forces set fire
to 900+buildings in Richmond, the
Confederate capital, in the face of
defeat, April 1865.

10. Sowing and Reaping – Northern view of White Women

11. The Conquest of the South, 1861–1865

12. Sherman’s March through the Confederacy

13. Contrabands Accompanying the Line of
Sherman's March through Georgia

14. Union Troops Capture Davis – May 1865
Sarcastic cartoon
showing Union
troops capturing
Davis in May 1865
wearing his wife’s
dress…
Jefferson Davis as an
Unprotected Female!

15. The Costs of War
long memory of the war
o1/3 of free men from 15-59, 3 million served in the
army
odeath rate, 650K in the U.S.
o 360K Union, 258K Confederate, 5x WWII
o disease claimed more lives than combat
o 275K each side maimed
o 410K in prison camps
oMen faced difficulty returning to civilian lives
oconcept of a national union shaken

16. Who were the soldiers?
Union army – 2 million
oFarm boys,
oshopkeepers,
oartisans, &
ourban workers
o200K African American soldiers
South – 1 million
onon-slaveholding small farmers

17. Costs of War - South
o devastating for the South,
o 43% decline in southern wealth, not including slave
wealth
o cities in ruins, Atlanta, Columbia, Richmond
o 1/3 horses, pigs, dead
o 2/3 of railroads destroyed
o resolved the question of union
o resolved the question of slavery
o difficult questions about Black civil rights
o Question of South punishment for 11 Confederate
states

18. Booth Assassinates President
Lincoln on April 14, 1865
John Wilkes Booth,
a southern
sympathizer,
actor, huntsman

19. The Thirteenth Amendment
Passed January 31, 1865 –
prohibiting slavery &
involuntary servitude
14th Amendment – 1868
permanent constitutional protection
of Black civil rights by defining
them as citizens
granted black male suffrage
the 15th Amendment, 1870, which
finally gave African Americans
the right to vote. It states that
"the right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account
of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude."

20. The Distribution of the Slave Population, 1860

21. “White Supremacy Forever!”

22. Professor Chee
witnessing Semana Santa
in Spain

23. America:
the land of liberty

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Chee
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