Civil War
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
87.02.08: War Beyond Romance: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Considerations
War has been described as the sum of all villainies.1 Since recorded history, from the shores of ancient Troy to the jungles of Viet Nam, mankind has been engaged in the act of creating suffering and slaughter in an orchestrated manner, often on a grand scale. The rationales for waging war are many, and the underlying causes are various and complex. War as a theme for history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and literature has few equals. War is the combination of the horrible and the fascinating. It is man in the act of creating the ugliest of all horrors; killing, and it is also man in the act of creating the hugely romantic notion of the human heroic spirit. There was a time in history when the questions of whether war was good or bad, justifiable or not were seldom if ever asked. The students who fill our classrooms today are seriously concerned by the conditions that make up our often chaotic world environment. This investigation will be two-part in structure. Here they Come!
John Quincy Adams
The first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the top of Penn's Hill above the family farm. As secretary to his father in Europe, he became an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist. After graduating from Harvard College, he became a lawyer. At age 26 he was appointed Minister to the Netherlands, then promoted to the Berlin Legation. In 1802 he was elected to the United States Senate. Serving under President Monroe, Adams was one of America's great Secretaries of State, arranging with England for the joint occupation of the Oregon country, obtaining from Spain the cession of the Floridas, and formulating with the President the Monroe Doctrine. Upon becoming President, Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State.
Causes of the Civil War
The issues that caused the Civil War had been brewing since the United States was formed. The most important causes Southerners listed for the war were unfair taxation, states' rights, and the slavery issue. Here are some primary sources that show how heated these issues had become by the late 1850s. Unfair Taxation The history and economy of the North were very different from those of the South. Factories developed in the North, while large cotton plantations developed in the South. Laws unfavorable to the South were passed. Southerners felt that the Federal government was passing laws, such as import taxes, that treated them unfairly. "The Union must be preserved" -- Henry Clay, 1850 Kentucky Resolutions -- 1798 Lincoln's inaugural address "South has the right to secede" -- Jefferson Davis' inaugural address, February 1861 "The South has the right to secede from the Union" -- Alabama letter to Kentucky Governor Slavery Slaves are an important part of Kentucky agriculture.
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.
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King Andrew the First
Title: King Andrew the First Date Created/Published: [New York? : s.n.], 1833. Medium: 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 31.7 x 21.4 cm. (image) Summary: A caricature of Andrew Jackson as a despotic monarch, probably issued during the Fall of 1833 in response to the President's September order to remove federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. The print is dated a year earlier by Weitenkampf and related to Jackson's controversial veto of Congress's bill to recharter the Bank in July 1832. View the MARC Record for this item. Rights assessment is your responsibility. The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. If an image is displaying, you can download it yourself. Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through Library of Congress Duplication Services.
