Civil War Sites

Civil War Simulations
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/civil-war-simulations




Interactive Civil War Simulation
https://www.activehistory.co.uk/updates/key-stage/year-9-history/interactive-simulation-game-events-american-civil-war/

What makes a Hero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR1Ym-dnT2Q

5 Heros you may never heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe9fcyoDiE

25 WWII Heros who put their lives on the line

Who are these Men?

What was their role in WWII?

President of the United States of America (1933-1945). He declared war on Japan after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, but unfortunately he did not live long enough to celebrate the Allies' victory in September of 1945.

(Died in 1945, succeeded by Harry S. Truman)

Stalin was very brutal Communist dictator of Russia (1928-1953). In the years before World War 2 Stalin murdered or imprisoned almost all of Russia's senior military officers, and millions of other Russian citizens, in a paranoid and unprecedented wave of political terror.

Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874.

Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945, Churchill led Britain to victory.

During the Battle of Britain, Churchill's speeches boosted the British morale during the darkest moments.

The other players:


Sworn in as the 33rd president after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sudden death, Harry S. Truman presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

A French general who led the French in their fight against Germany. After World War II, he became president of France.           

William King

Prime minister of Canada joined World War 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.

Robert Menzies

Prime minister of Australia, joined World War 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.

Michael Savage

Prime minister of New Zealand joined World War 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.

President Lincoln shot April 14, 1864

While at the Ford Theater  Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. 

Lincoln died April 15, 1865  7:22 am.

Military units marching down Pennsylvania Ave in Washington D.C. during the state funeral for Abraham Lincoln on April 19, 1865.

 

Route for the Funeral Train for President Abraham Lincoln 

Abraham Lincoln Funeral Pictures

http://history1800s.about.com/od/abrahamlincoln/ig/Abraham-Lincoln-s-Funeral/Lincoln-s-Funeral-Carriage.htm#step-heading 

http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln51.html

Songs of the Civil War

Songs from the Civil War Memorize 3 songs

Battle Cry of Freedom  

Union 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4ZwyYJYbQ

 South 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcQPbbtZPU&list=RDevcQPbbtZPU#t=11

Dixie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OKdbc0DYpM

When Johnny Comes Marching Home  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uarq2_hQ8

Unconstitutional Acts 1861-1862

Unconstitutional Acts

During the Civil War, Republicans in the 37th Congress managed to navigate two major pieces of legislation through Capitol Hill that helped free certain types of Confederate slaves.  These “confiscation” acts have since become mostly forgotten, however, because their impact on the struggle to abolish slavery was overwhelmed by Lincoln’s emancipation policy.  Nonetheless, those acts remained in force throughout the war and arguably triggered Lincoln’s pivotal decision to emancipate slaves by military decree beginning on January 1, 1863.

The First Confiscation Act (August 6, 1861) was not an explicit freedom statute, but it authorized Union army officials to seize any slaves employed by the Confederate army.  The fourth section of the statute read:
“That whenever hereafter, during the present insurrection against the Government of the United States, any person claimed to be held to labor or service under the law of any State, shall be required or permitted by the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, or by the lawful agent of such person, to take up arms against the United States, or shall be required or permitted by the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, or his lawful agent, to work or to be employed in or upon any fort, navy yard, dock, armory, ship, entrenchment, or in any military or naval service whatsoever, against the Government and lawful authority of the United States, then, and in every such case, the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due shall forfeit his claim to such labor, any law of the State or of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. And whenever thereafter the person claiming such labor or service shall seek to enforce his claim, it shall be a full and sufficient answer to such claim that the person whose service or labor is claimed had been employed in hostile service against the Government of the United States, contrary to the provisions of this act.”
Although the First Confiscation Act was not an explicit freedom statute, by neither attempting to define the legal status of the “forfeited” slaves, nor by fully addressing the concerns of the so-called contrabands, it nonetheless had the effect of increasing the spread of freedom almost immediately because of instructions from Secretary of War Simon Cameron (August 8, 1861) that directed army officers to receive and protect fugitives from both disloyal and loyal masters, suggesting that it was the only practical way to proceed and that Congress would ultimately have to figure out a way to provide “just compensation to loyal masters.”
Cameron’s instructions were not uniformly followed, however, and a number of Union officers continued to return fugitive slaves or to deny runaways protection.  Over the next several months, this situation provoked repeated clashes between Republican politicians and certain Union generals over what the law required and what military necessity demanded.  One notable exchange occurred between Secretary of State William Seward and General George B. McClellan in December 1861. 

Arguments such as these eventually provoked the Congress to debate and pass a Second Confiscation Act (July 17, 1862), which went far beyond the first statute in declaring confiscation as punishment for treason and in labeling Confederate slaves as “captives of war” who were to be “forever free.”  The Congress also extended their confiscation policy to include any slaves employed by disloyal master anywhere –not just those employed by the rebel armies or navies.  The key section of the statute regarding emancipation was Section 9:
“That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the government of the United States; and all slaves of such person found on [or] being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude, and not again held as slaves.”
Abraham Lincoln signed the new confiscation statute on Thursday, July 17, 1862, but did so reluctantly, convinced that it was both unconstitutional and impractical.  He actually drafted a veto message earlier that week, but after some last-minute negotiations, the president and Congress managed to avoid a dramatic confrontation.  Nonetheless, President Lincoln issued his veto message with his signature (something that today is called a presidential signing statement) and proceeded to make plans to supersede congressional confiscation with his own emancipation policy, presented in its first draft form to his Cabinet on Tuesday, July 22, 1862.
Congressional confiscation policy had many “authors” and provoked numerous arguments in House and Senate debates.  No figure, however, was more important to the development of the policy than Senator Lyman Trumbull, a Republican from Illinois, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Under these circumstances, he might also be considered a “Great Emancipator” from Illinois.  You can browse or search the congressional confiscation debates online through “A Century of Lawmaking,” a massive collection of congressional documents courtesy of the Library of Congress.

 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/2012/07/14/congressional-confiscation-acts/

 

 

Confiscation Act of 1862

        The Second Confiscation Act, approved by Congress 16 July 1862, contained the first definite provisions for emancipating slaves in the rebellious states.
        Under the act, Confederates who did not surrender within 60 days of the acts passage were to be punished by having their slaves freed. The act also dealt with a problem that plagued field commanders occupying Southern territory. As troops advanced, slaves sought refuge in Union camps, and Federal commanders were confused over their obligations to the refugees. Some freed the slaves, others sent them hack to their masters for lack of means to care for them. The Confiscation Act of 1862 declared all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines captives of war who were to be set free.
        Though the act implied a willingness to emancipate, at the convenience of the government, it offered blacks no guarantee of civil rights. Instead, it incorporated provisions for transporting and colonizing any black consenting to emigrate to some tropical country that was prepared to guarantee them the rights and privileges of free men. A clause requiring the consent of the freedmen to be colonized was approved after much controversy in Congress.
        Radical Republicans, who envisioned distributing confiscated lands to former slaves succeeded in passing the bill only after agreeing to President Lincolns demand to limit seizure of Confederate estates to the lifetime of the offender.
        Lincolns limited emancipation gesture applied only to states in open rebellion. The same act granting freedom to Confederate slaves guaranteed the return of fugitives from the border states to any owner who could prove loyalty to the Union. Lincoln could not risk alienating these states, and he hoped that one part of the bill, calling for gradual, compensated emancipation, would draw Virginia and Tennessee back into the Union.
        Essentially, the Confiscation Act of 1862 prepared the way for the Emancipation Proclamation and solved the immediate dilemma facing the army concerning the status of slaves within its Jurisdiction.

http://civilwarhome.com/confiscationact1862.htm

Was Abraham Lincoln considered an Unconstitutional President?

Syllabus Sword 2016 - 2017

Sword of Freedom

Syllabus (2016-2017)

    Week 1 – Aug 26^th

Lecture - Choosing your Allegiance.  Learn note taking and proper lecture behavior.

Writing Assignment - Where is your allegiance and why?

Activity - Military Rules

Presentation -

Begin Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Begin researching your presentation topic

  Week 2 - Sept 2^nd

Lecture - Public Virtue, Pre-Civil War history, and Compromise of 1850.

Writing Assignment - Is compromise a good thing?  Why or why not?

Activity

Presentation -

Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  Week 3 - Sept 9^th

Lecture - The cycles of History, Bleeding Kansas, and Elections of 1860.

Writing Assignment- When evil is being done is it right to react with evil? 

Document study - Dread Scott

Presentation -

Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  Week 4 - Sept 16^th

Lecture - Secession, Fort Sumter, First Manassas

Writing Assignment - Is secession constitutional?  

Book Discussion - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Presentation –

Begin Reading - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

 Week 5 - Sept 23^rd

Lecture - Shiloh and Antietam and Unconstitutional Acts

Writing Assignment - Is it ever wrong to follow the law and if so when and why?

Document study - Emancipation Proclamation

Presentation – Sister Echeverria

Reading - Across Five Aprils

 Week 6 - Sept 30^th

Lecture - Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

Writing Assignment - Write a poem on something that you have studied so far.

Book Discussion - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Presentation – Food by Jonah B

Begin Reading - Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

Week 7 – Oct 7^th

Lecture - Gettysburg  

Reading - Abraham Lincoln

Week 8 – Oct 14^th

Lecture - Gettysburg

Document Study:  Gettysburg Address

Presentation – Uniforms and The Army by Guest

Reading - Abraham Lincoln

       Fall Break Oct 21^st  - Enjoy!

 Week 9 – Oct 28^th

Lecture - The Battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Wilderness.

Writing Assignment - Write a letter home as if you had just fought in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Book Discussion - Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

Presentation – Underground by Gavin K

Begin Reading - To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Week 10 – Nov 4^th

Lecture - Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, Raid in the South

Writing Assignment - In your opinion was Sherman’s Raid right.  Why or why not?

Activity - Who Killed the Constitution? 

Presentation – Spies by Jonah C

Reading - To Kill a Mockingbird

Week 11 – Nov 11^th

Lecture - The Last Goodbye.  The Surrender at Appomattox.

Writing Assignment - Start Writing Hero Report

Document Study - Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Presentation – Prisons by McKensey E

Reading - To Kill A Mockingbird

Week 12 – Nov 18^th

Lecture - The Death of President Lincoln.

Writing Assignment - Write a paper on how you would try to bind the nation’s wounds.

Document study - Amendments 13-15.

Presentation –  Weapons  by Gavin

Reading:  To Kill A Mockingbird

      Thanksgiving Break Nov 25^th - Gobble Gobble!

Week 13 – Dec 2^nd

Lecture:  The Reconstruction

Writing Assignment - Pay the Debt.  How do you plan to pay back your ancestors and continue to preserve freedom?

Presentation -

Book Discussion - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Week 14 – Dec 9^th

Lecture - Paying the Debt.

Writing Assignment - None

Activity - 

Presentation -

Rank Advancements –

Christmas Break will be Dec 10, 2016 to Jan 5, 2017.  If you are behind on assignments, you will have until Jan 4th to report to Sis.  Cummings.  Enjoy your Christmas Break with Family and Friends.   

Reading:

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee