CST Review: How Inventions Change History

CST Review: Teenage Life in Ancient Rome

CST Review: Ancient History

CST Review: Ancient History

CST Review: Constantinople

CST Review: Mesopotamians

Jim Crow Laws

Reconstruction

13th Amendment: Freed the slaves
14th Amendment: Declared all African Americans to be free and full citizens
15th: Amendment:Said that a citizen's right to vote cannot be denied because of race

For more videos on Reconstruction and JIm Crow Laws click HERE!

The Terms of Surrender

Robert E. Lee

Grant's terms of surrender were generous.  Confederate solders could go home if they promised to fight no longer.  They could take with them their own horses and mules, which they would need for spring plowing.  Officers could keep their swords and weapons.  Grant also ordered that food be sent to Lee's half starved men.  Lee accepted the terms.

As Lee returned to his headquarters, Union troops began to shoot their guns and cheer wildly.  Grant told them to stop celebrating.  "the war is over," he said, "the rebels are our countrymen again."

Total War

With Lincoln's support, Grant pursued a policy of total war -- attacking not only Confederate soldiers but also civilians and the Southern economy. Destroying Southern cities, farms, and factories, Lincoln and Grant understood, would destroy Southerners' will to fight.

Ulysses S. Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman

The Massachusetts 54 Regiment

The Battle for Vicksburg, Mississippi

In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation, leading ultimately to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union armies.

To learn more click HERE!

The Monitor and the Merrimac

Ironclad ships that fought a famous battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1861. The Merrimack was actually a sunken Union castoff, dredged up by Confederates and renamed the Virginia. The Monitor was a new Union ship. The ships fired at each other all day, but their iron shells prevented damage.

The Gettysburg Address

The Battle of Gettysburg

The Draft Riots

The Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam

Scene from the movie Glory
History Channel documentary

Civil War photography

The Battle of Bull Run

The Anaconda Plan

The Strengths & Weaknesses of the North & the South/ The Anaconda Plan

America: The Story of Us... The Civil War

Civil War Lecture

Here is a series of lecture videos on the American Civil War.  They were designed for a high school class, but they are very easy to follow.  Each video covers a different aspect of the war and is about 5 minutes long.

Video 1: Strategy and Strengths
Video 2: Technology
Video 3: Southern Home Front
Video 4: Northern Home Front
Video 5: The Battles
Video 6: Gettysburg
Video 7: The War Ends

The American Civil War

Click HERE for a PowerPoint overview of the American Civil War

Dred Scott

A student film.

Lincoln, Westward Expansion and the Causes of the Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Here are links to listen to the audio books version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 

Click on the following...

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

The Fugitive Slave Law

The Compromise of 1850

The Missouri Compromise 1820

Lynching

Strange Fruit

Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)
Originally sung by: Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Classwork from Friday, April 12, 2013

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

1. I gave a powerpoint lecture and the students participated in the discussion as I went through the slides.

2. Then the students gave written answers to 3 questions concerning John Brown's raid.

3. I suggest you check some online sources to read more about John Brown. 

Click HERE for the John Brown PowerPoint

Click here for PowerPoint notes that can be used while researching on the Internet

Click HERE for the John Brown worksheet

This assignment is worth class point towards your overall grade.

Classwork From Thursday, April 11, 2013

An Overview on the Events that Lead Up to the Civil War.

1. Students completed an Entrance Ticket concerning the term "Civil War".  VERY few students had a correct understanding of this term.  I suggest you look it up in the Longmen Dictionary. 

Click HERE for the Entrance Ticket

Click HERE for the Longmen Dictionary

2. Read the essay entitled, "Overview of the American Civil War".

Click HERE for the essay

3. Read each of the events that lead up the the American Civi War and then complete the worksheet.

Click HERE for the Events that Lead to the American Civil War

Click HERE for the worksheet

4. Study the chart entitled, :Economics & Culture of the American Civil War and then complete the worksheet.

Click HERE for the chart

Click HERE for the worksheet

All these assignments are worth points and should be completed for class.

John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the Grave