The 1800s & the Civil War

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.

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.