SS Grade 8

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IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PRINT THEM OUT AND STAPLE THEM INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK.
 IF YOU PREFER YOU MAY WRITE THEM BY HAND.
THIS RULE HAS BEEN IN PLACE SINCE YOU ENTERED THIS CLASSROOM IN SEPTEMBER!

Chapter 15  Sections 3 and 4  Moved to Tuesday, Oct 8 due to High School visits and map testing

REVIEW ALL WORKSHEETS AS WELL
Chapter 15  Sections 3 and 4 notes below

Chapter 15  Sections 3 

Section 3

Causes and effects of the Emancipation Proclamation

CAUSES: Lincoln understood that slavery was important to the South’s success in the war:
                 

EFFECTS: It changed the war into a war for freedom.                                                                                                  Kept Britain from supporting the South’s independence           
                      United African Americans to support the war.

Abolitionists wanted the South punished for starting the war.

Lincoln did not originally want to end slavery: HIs goal at the onset of the war, was to restore the Union, not stop slavery!

LIncoln’s mind was changed when he realized that the South needed the slaves to continue with the war effort.

Emancipation Proclamation issued January 1, 1863.

1. Freed enslaved people ONLY in those areas fighting the Union.

2. It did not apply to those states in the South already under UNION control.

3. Did not anyone in the border states.

**** BASICALLY HAD LITTLE IMMEDIATE EFFECT****

CRITICS- Some abolitionists felt that it should be applied throughout the entire country.

                  White Southerners claimed Lincoln was trying to incite a slave revolt. 

PRAISE- Union soldiers were in favor as they felt this would weaken the South.

***Proclamation freed FEW slaves, but it had one main effect:  IT CHANGED THE CIVIL WAR INTO A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND NOT JUST A WAR TO UNITE THE UNION***

The proclamation led to the realization that Britain WOULD NOT AID AID THE SOUTH BECAUSE THEY WOULD NEVER AID A COUNTRY THAT PROMOTED SLAVERY.

The proclamation united African Americans in both the North and the South in their support of the war.

****After the Emancipation Proclamation, African American volunteers were allowed to join the Union army****

African Americans in the Union army risked being sent back to the South if captured.

Black and white soldiers in the navy served TOGETHER!

In the army, African Americans served in all-black regiments under white officers (Earning less than their white

In the North: roles of African Americans: Cooks, wagon drivers, hospital aides.

In the South: Enslaved African Americans provided the Union army with information
                      Deliberately worked slowly or damaged equipment
                      Refused to work when their slave owners were out fighting



15  section 4

The war caused political division in both the North and the South while changing the lives of civilians and soldiers alike.

All Northerners DID NOT support a war to end slavery or preserve the Union.

All white Southerners DID NOT support a war to defend slavery or secession.

Divisions in the South
Opposition in the South was strongest in Georgia and North Carolina.
Support for states’ rights caused many problems.

Governor of South Carolina did not want officers from other states in charge of South Carolina’s troops.

Divisions in the North

Many Northerners 
Opposed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Some people in the North thought the South had a right to secede
Copperheads criticized the war and wanted peace with the Confederacy.

PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR attempted to disrupt the war effort.

North
Helped the Union soldiers to desert.
Helped prisoners to escape.

South
 Peace groups worked AGAINST the Confederacy.
Attempts were made to stop people from joining the military.
Helped Confederate soldiers to desert.

BOTH Lincoln and Davis suspended the right of Habeas Corpus in some places to deal with disruptions in the North and South.

The solution to desertion= A draft was imposed

Riots broke out in the North over anger concerning the draft New York had the worst riots)

The wealthy were allowed to pay their way out of the war:

South- A man who had 20  enslaved people did not have to serve.

North-  paying the government $300.00 could get a man out of the draft,

BOTH- allowed substitutes to serve for them.

The war became known as The Poor Man’s War 

Economic strains were felt on both sides:

First income tax formed at this time!

Women’s contribution

Elizabeth Blackwell- first female physician who trained nurses.

Dorothy Dix- Head of Union nurses

Harriet Tubman- The Moses of her people who led enslaved people to safety in the North.

She also worked as a Union nurse.

Clara Barton- The angel of the Battlefield

                        Cared for the wounded soldiers on the battlefield

                        Began the first chapter of the AMERICAN Red Cross