1800s and civil war
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The 1800s & the Civil War
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2) Write down one connection you made between this information and what you’ve learned so far about the Civil War.
Culture and Lifestyle
Culture
• The South was largely agrarian—meaning that most people farmed for a living
• The North was more industrial—many worked in factories
Just like the U.S today, different regions had different local cultures
Transportation
Steam Engine Train
Horse and Wagon
and walking
What did people do for fun?
• Stereoscopes– Photography had just been invented
• Play outside• Card Games
• Reading• Talking• Crafts
Clothing
Photo from 1800s Re-enactor in costume
Sociology: Groups of People
Free States, Slave States
Border States
The Union
The Confederacy
Population in the South
Wealthy Plantation Owners
Farmers, Workers, Merchants
Slaves
• A very small percentage of the population controlled most of the $$ and politics
Black Men & Women of the Old West
Thousands of Black men and women lived in mostly segregated communities in the American West in the 1800s
They were traders, gold miners, soldiers, cowboys and farm hands, bartenders, cooks and outlaws.
Nona Marshall, late 1800s, Arizona territory (source):
African American Cowboys
Identity unknown, around 1865, Kansas (source):
Native Americans
•The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the present-day United States. It has been described as an act of genocide
•This happened in the 1930s, before the Civil War
Harriet Tubman led slaves North to freedom on the “Underground Railroad”
Plantations
Plantations primarily grew cotton &
tobacco (cash crops)
Plantation located in Whitecastle, Louisiana.
Slave Houses
Medicine During the Civil War
Battlefield Medicine During the American Civil War
Operating Table
Very few surgical tools
I didn’t even go to medical
school!
Dirty conditions
Battlefield Medicine Today:
Medics from the Air Force Theater Hospital treat emergency room patients at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on Aug. 2. The hospital provides Level 1 trauma and specialized medical care. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrew Oquendo - http://www.visualintel.net)
Well-trained doctors
Medical equipment
Plastic to keep things sterile (clean)
Doctor’s Battlefield Tools
If you were shot in the leg, they would amputate you without anesthesia !
Most wounded Soldiers died of infection
GROSS !
Clara Barton
• Battlefield nurse• Founder of the
American Red Cross
Major Battles and Turning Points
Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor
• Beginning of the War, first shots fired
Major Battles: Antietam/Sharpsburg Gettysburg
The Emancipation Proclamation
• A document that prohibited slavery in the south
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
• General Lee surrenders to the Union
The Gettysburg Address
• One of the best known speeches in American History
Johnny Cash reading the address
Reconstruction: After the War
After the War: Sharecroppers
After the Civil War ended, poor southern farmers of all races were sharecroppers for wealthy landowners.
1) Write down 2 questions you have after seeing this presentation.
2) Write down one connection you made between this information and what you’ve learned so far about the Civil War.