Agenda • EQ: How did the Civil War impact the United States?

Warm-Up: Why was Gettysburg considered the turning point of the civil war? MLQ: How can we identify the different factors that led to the Civil War ending by reading

for information?

Vocabulary Wilderness: An unsettled, uncultivated region left in its natural conditionAnnihilate: To destroy completelyYou will need a tents if you are going to camp in the wilderness.The object of the video game is to annihilate your opponent. Work period : Students will:1) Read a passage from the textbook 2) Answer tiered questions

Share: Share answers Closing: Summary of lesson

H.W. Read and Answer the Surrender at Appomattox Court House

The Wilderness Campaign Grant first campaign against Lee's

Army of Northern Virginia became known as the Wilderness Campaign.

It was series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capitial of Richmond Virginia.

Grant's Army of 120,000 men, advanced across the Rapidan River into a place in Virginia known as the Wilderness.

It was called the Wilderness due to the large number of trees and dense ground cover in the area.

Battle of Cold HarborLee met Grant's army, in the Battle of

the Wilderness on May 5 and 6, 1864.

Union troops were successful at moving the Confederate troops back toward Richmond

Although, Grant experienced the worst defeat, losing 7,000 men at the Battle of Cold Harbor, he continue his advance.

However, Lincoln worried about the time that it was taking for Grant to defeat the South because of his re-election drawing near.

Total War & Sherman’s March to the Sea• Lincoln calls in General William

Tecumseh Sherman to assist in carrying out the Unions plans to win the war.

• Sherman would achieve this by destroying any and all southern railroads, industry, bridges, crops, livestock, and any other resource that existed in attempt at “Total War.”

• He wanted to break the South’s will to fight by marching Union troops through the heart of the Confederacy.

End of the War April 3, 1865 - Grant took

Richmond Va, which was the final blow to Lee's army

Lee surrenders on April 9, 1865 at APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

All Confederate troops forced to take an oath of loyalty to U.S.

Otherwise, terms of surrender were lenient

Lincoln didn't want a humiliated South and further conflict

Issue of states' rights now "solved"-

Federal gov't had asserted its status

After four bloody years of civil war, the South was defeated.

Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.

Work Period

All Groups Read pgs 540-543 in the textbook• Red Group: pg 543, question # 4 (a&b)

• Green Group: pg 543, question# 3 (a&b)

• Blue Group: pg 546, question #10 (a, b,& c)