mins F inish your eulogy funeral speech for Lincoln Life 18091865 President 18611865 You can write from the perspective of a dear friend a freed slave a Lincoln supporter a happy Southerner a present day person looking back Its up to you BE CREATIVE ID: 541750
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DO NOW (15 mins)
F
inish your eulogy (funeral speech) for Lincoln Life: 1809-1865 President 1861-1865
You can write from the perspective of a dear friend, a freed slave, a Lincoln supporter, a happy Southerner , a present day person looking back…. Its up to you- BE CREATIVE!
You can use your laptops/ notes from last time
*On notebook paper to turn in (10pts)
Once you complete your Do Now, Laptops away!
Please
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Fusing the Country Back Together
1862-1878
Remember, History OVERLAPS!
Only to lead up to the “Great War”Slide3
Learning Objective(You WILL Be Able To…)
Compare how the North and South each felt after the Civil War
2. Articulate how the
H
omestead
A
ct effect America?
3. Explain how Native Americans were affected by the development of Western AmericaSlide4
Words To Know
Reconstruction
=2. Homesteaders=
Sodbusters=
Rostabouts
=
3. American Dream=Slide5
The Least You Need To Know- Civil War
Victory in the Civil War came down to
NUMBERS the North had more…Lincoln’s assassination deprived BOTH the North and South of a
Without Lincoln,
reconstruction (
)
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People (soldiers) - Technology (weapons, *TRANSPORTATION ________) - *INDUSTRY Big Business
Wise, compassionate leader SAVE THE UNION!
Fusing back together of the North and South
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Bitter (North and South
HATED
each other)
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Visionless (no leader with a vision)
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Damaging to the nationSlide6
STOP AND THINK- Why was Lincoln’s vision of
SAVING THE UNION
so important?Slide7
After The War Where Brothers Fought Brothers
Armies, money and the will to continue to fight won the Civil War
But there was something else that helped as well….. With this dream, American’s….
SAVE THE UNION!
The “American Dream”
moved West
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Saw it as a chance to start over
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Heal from the Civil WarSlide8
Homesteaders
On
May 20, 1862 Lincoln signed into law, the ____________________________= Granted 160 acres of public land in the West as a homestead
“ANY person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of 21, and is a citizen of the US, or who intends to become one.”
*The
homestead act
was a bold experiment in public policySlide9
Was It Successful?
YES
NO
STOP AND THINK-
Why was the
homestead act
was a bold experiment in public policy?
Helped people heal from the Civil War
Got FAMILIES to move to the West MORE STABLE
Big business corporate (rail roads,) are going to take advantage, find loopholes and “steal” land from peopleSlide10
Fun Fact
The soil in the plains was awful, so little grew =
_____________ ____________
__________
John Deer’s
Invention-
Sod became the “dirt cheap” (
haha
) method to build homes
Plains homesteaders who built sod houses were called
WILD, WILD WEST
Old Settlers
New Settlers
Trappers, grizzly single men FAMILIES=
Frontiersmen stability
sodbusters
No Soil No trees No wood
Sod PlowSlide11
Transportation and Technology
Technology-
The fight to be the main “freighter” (Train company) was constant
With the railroad came questions about governments power to regulate
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Chicken & Egg Effect
Technology
pushes people to be better, people push technology to be better
Trains crossed state lines, and carried cargo (goods) from other states
who was in charge? (Caused gov to make new laws)Slide12
Pacific Railway Act of 1862- Lincoln- will approve a “transcontinental railroad”
railroad that will connect America from the East to the West
“From sea to shining sea America was bound by bands of iron”Immigrants- Irish and Chinese immigrants were the majority of railroad workers
bc
they would do the job for less than anyone else
STOP AND THINK-
Lincoln wanted to sew the nation back, how did the transcontinental railroad help? Slide13
The Least You Need To Know- Westward
The Homestead Act of 1862
filled the space between the Mississippi and the Pacific- fueled by the _____________________ - Moving West was a chance to ____________ after the ________________ - Changed the face of the “westerner” from ________________________ to ___________
Technology-
Specifically the _____________ __________________ did more than ________________ to bind the Nation into 1!
American Dream
start over
Civil War
grizzly single men
families
Trans-Continental
railroad
constructionSlide14
Presentation (you have until 12:05)
READ YOUR PARAGRAPH!!
Using your paragraph, determine the KEY information (for example: key people, idea, events, battles, inventions, words etc)Make a poster, power point, imovie or skit
Cover the key points in your presentation
4. We will present to the class
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“American Dream”…Native American Persecution?
Persecution=
Indian Removal Act (1830)=Trail Of Tears (1838-1839)= Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)=
STOP AND THINK (it’s a BIG one!)-
Why were Native Americans taken advantage of? Why were they not protected? Why do we STILL not learn about it? Is this ok?Slide16
Pushing West… Pushing Who? 1862-1891
During the
_________________ there was another “war” raging on as wellNative American lands were reduced further and further.The “5 Civilalized Tribes” were the
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and the Creek Indians”
They were forced to live in the deserts (of what is Oklahoma today)Slide17
Defeat of Custer-
Geronimo Campaign-
Wounded Knee-Slide18
Great Santee Sioux Massacre-War of Black Hills (Sitting Bull)-
The Campaigns of Hancock And Sheridan-Slide19
The Least You Need To Know- Native Americans During the Civil War
The Indian Wars in the West, spanning the __________________________ consisted mainly of long, exhausting
pursuits (_______________________) and very few battles.The Strategy was to fight a “ _____________” against men, women, children, elderly as well as warriors to force Indians onto ___________
TOTAL War
hunting down tribes
Civil War
reservationSlide20
Exit Slip- ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER
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Use your notes! READ and ANSWER each question FULLY!
Compare how the North and South each felt after the Civil War
2. Articulate how the Homestead Act effect America?
3. How were Native Americans effected by Westward expansion?