Around the time of the civil war there were two types of women. Women who acted outside the sphere the "Sphere of Domesticity" and others chose to stay within traditional gender roles. The sphere of Domesticity includes cooking, cleaning, staying home and taking care of the kids instead of having a job. The Sphere is basically all the household roles a women would have. Some women would act inside of it while others would venture on to do more "man like" things like having a job, public speaking, and some even joined the war. Both sides in and out of the sphere had strong arguments for why they chose their roles.
Women like Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Dorthy Dix, Martha Coston didnt let things like the "Sphere of Domesticity" hold them back. All three dared to venture outside of the circle in their own way. Martha Coston mother of 4 who lost her husband who was a scientist. He was in the process of making the flare when he died and Martha wanted to finish it for him. She had followed his work when he was alive making it easier for her to pick up where he left off. Since she worked so hard the flare was not only finished, but was used all over the United States. Dorthy Dix went outside the circle in a different way. Dorthy was in charge of medical treatments and the care of patients. She was not only in charge of the nurses but even was in charge of some male doctors. Rose O'Neal Greenhow acted outside the circle much different from the two others. Rose O'Neal Greenhow acted as a spy for the confederacy. Since she was a women she was able to blend in easily and be inconspicuous making her one of the best spies the confederacy had. All three of these women broke the norm of being a housewife with no job by making their own paths outside the circle and are perfect examples of women acting outside the Sphere of Domesticity.
One woman who is an example of a women acting inside the sphere of domesticity is Alice Chapin. She was a mother of 5 who was left by her husband who decided to go into the army, leaving her with little money and many mouths to feed. She was going to get a job as a teacher but her husband forbid it. She obeyed him and instead of getting the job, she sent care packages to the army in hope that it might help her husband and other soldiers. Alice Chapin is a perfect example of a women who acted inside the Sphere of Domesticity
Friday, March 28, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Tech and Tactics
During the civil war hundreds of Americans died protecting what they believed in. They died in hope of protecting what they loved and cherished, their country. After going through several pieces of evidence it became obvious that service to one's country was much more important to the men than preservation of ones self.
The civil war caused a wave of new weapons and and technology that were used by each side. One example of the new technology was the ironclad. An ironclad was an iron military vessel with several cannons and a very hard shell that wasn't easy to penetrate. Each side had a different type of ironclad. The Confederates called theirs the Merrimack, it had 10 cannons on it, the Unions was called "The Monitor". "The Monitor" was an iron clad with only 2 cannons but they could rotate around to any side. This gave "The Monitor " an advantage because of that ability to rotate where they were aiming. Many navy experts doubted "The Monitor" and didn't want it to be produced, but Lincoln over ruled them and made it. Another several inventions were the railroad artillery, telescopic sights, military telegraph, and land mines. There was about 240 military patents in 1862 alone.
Each side of the civil war had very different strategies. The Unions plan was to basically invade the South, destroy its capacity to wage war, and crush the will of the southern people to resist. The Southerners thought they could hold their defenses and prolong the war to a point where the loyal citizenry considered the effort to costly in lives and money. The Union called their plan the "Anaconda Plan", the plan was to set up a naval blockade cutting off their cotton trade. By cutting off their trade they were cutting off the Confederacy's income which was crucial for making weapons and supplying troops with necessities like food, water, and medicine, etc. They also planned to use their Army/Navy to divide the Confederacy by seizing the Mississippi River. The Confederacy's plan was to defend all of its borders, but for most of the war Jefferson Davis and his advisers followed what often is termed a defensive-offensive strategy. Confederate armies generally stood on the strategic defensive, protecting as much of their territory as possible. When circumstances seemed favorable, the Confederacy launched offensives. Confederate military strategy was to gain important diplomatic allies. Specifically, Confederate leaders felt that if cotton was withheld from Britain and France, those nations would formally recognize their nation and provide them with much needed material support.
To be wounded badly in the civil war was very unlucky. Most serious wounds meant they had to amputate a limb or a part of the body as to prevent infections. Reading the article "Under the Knife" revealed how far back the medical world was in the mid 1800s. Although the soldiers were lucky to get to the field hospital alive they often didn't survive. There were not a lot of technique's though. The article said "When bone was damaged, surgeons had to decide quickly on one of three possible treatments. If it was a simple fracture, a wooden
or plaster splint was applied, but if the bone was shattered the surgeon performed either a
resection or an amputation." Resection involved cutting open the limb, sawing out the damaged bone, and then closing the incision. It was a time-consuming procedure and required considerable surgical skill. There were two types of amputations, primary and secondary. The difference was primary amputations were the amputations that occurred 48 hours after the injury and secondary amputation were past that. Primary amputations were preferred because the morality rate for primary was 25% and secondary was twice as high. Infections were another serious cause of death in the war. It was such a big cause of death because if a wound were to get infected it often caused death. For example "Two members of Company B, 19th Michigan Infantry, were shot in the index finger in the same battle during the Atlanta campaign. One man treated himself by cutting off the mangled finger with his pocket knife. He wrapped the stub in a handkerchief and waited until the battle was over to have the wound dressed at the field hospital. The other soldier went immediately to the surgeon for a proper amputation. Gangrene set in within days, and the surgeon was later forced to amputate his arm at the shoulder. The soldier died soon afterward."
http://www.edline.net/files/_yMHRV_/ad7f4df9270b953e3745a49013852ec4/Tactics__Tech_Class_Notes.pdf
Each side of the civil war had very different strategies. The Unions plan was to basically invade the South, destroy its capacity to wage war, and crush the will of the southern people to resist. The Southerners thought they could hold their defenses and prolong the war to a point where the loyal citizenry considered the effort to costly in lives and money. The Union called their plan the "Anaconda Plan", the plan was to set up a naval blockade cutting off their cotton trade. By cutting off their trade they were cutting off the Confederacy's income which was crucial for making weapons and supplying troops with necessities like food, water, and medicine, etc. They also planned to use their Army/Navy to divide the Confederacy by seizing the Mississippi River. The Confederacy's plan was to defend all of its borders, but for most of the war Jefferson Davis and his advisers followed what often is termed a defensive-offensive strategy. Confederate armies generally stood on the strategic defensive, protecting as much of their territory as possible. When circumstances seemed favorable, the Confederacy launched offensives. Confederate military strategy was to gain important diplomatic allies. Specifically, Confederate leaders felt that if cotton was withheld from Britain and France, those nations would formally recognize their nation and provide them with much needed material support.
To be wounded badly in the civil war was very unlucky. Most serious wounds meant they had to amputate a limb or a part of the body as to prevent infections. Reading the article "Under the Knife" revealed how far back the medical world was in the mid 1800s. Although the soldiers were lucky to get to the field hospital alive they often didn't survive. There were not a lot of technique's though. The article said "When bone was damaged, surgeons had to decide quickly on one of three possible treatments. If it was a simple fracture, a wooden
or plaster splint was applied, but if the bone was shattered the surgeon performed either a
resection or an amputation." Resection involved cutting open the limb, sawing out the damaged bone, and then closing the incision. It was a time-consuming procedure and required considerable surgical skill. There were two types of amputations, primary and secondary. The difference was primary amputations were the amputations that occurred 48 hours after the injury and secondary amputation were past that. Primary amputations were preferred because the morality rate for primary was 25% and secondary was twice as high. Infections were another serious cause of death in the war. It was such a big cause of death because if a wound were to get infected it often caused death. For example "Two members of Company B, 19th Michigan Infantry, were shot in the index finger in the same battle during the Atlanta campaign. One man treated himself by cutting off the mangled finger with his pocket knife. He wrapped the stub in a handkerchief and waited until the battle was over to have the wound dressed at the field hospital. The other soldier went immediately to the surgeon for a proper amputation. Gangrene set in within days, and the surgeon was later forced to amputate his arm at the shoulder. The soldier died soon afterward."
http://www.edline.net/files/_yMHRV_/ad7f4df9270b953e3745a49013852ec4/Tactics__Tech_Class_Notes.pdf
http://www.educanon.com/delivery/10822/27474
http://www.educanon.com/delivery/10822/27482
http://www.educanon.com/delivery/10822/27482
Civil War Scavenger Hunt
To learn about the battles of the civil war in class we did a scavenger hunt. Each person in the class had to research about one battle, some people paired up because their were not enough battles. We had to find our evidence about each battle using reliable sources. To show what we learned we put all of the information we learned into a Google doc. The required information was the name of the battle, the location, the date, the victor, the theater (East, West, Naval), at least 2 bullets explaining the results, and at least one image. Plus another requirement was no more than 60 words and all sources had to be cited. Once we were finished we had to make to doc accessible to our other classmates. So by editing the share options we made our Google doc accessible to anyone with the link, check it out below. To access he doc we used QR codes. This s a much faster than typing in the link. To create it we went to www.qrstuff.com and entered the URL into a box and just like that it was created. All we had to do after that was print it out. To organize the hunt with our classmates we talked to the battles before and after us so we could tell our location to the people before us so they could add it to their doc and we added the location of QR code of the group after us making it easier to go in order. We also made sure that our QR codes were not to far away from each other so other groups wouldn't have to waste a lot of time walking. We carried out the scavenger in class, using the class Ipads and are own devices to scan the QR codes. When we finished the scavenger hunt we all met back in class to use Padlet. Padlet is is a virtual wall that allows several people to share their ideas all on the same page. By using Padlet we were able to get a great grasp on the concept and the essential questions. We used Padlet to summarize and discuss the essential questions of the lesson.
Essential Question #1
Who was the ultimate victor in each of the theaters: East, West, Naval?
Based on the evidence the Union is the ultimate winner. Although the South won most of the battles in the Eastern theater including the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, Fort Sumter, Bull Run and Second Manassas, the Union still won the battles of Gettysburg, Sherman's March to the Sea, Appomattox Campaign, and Antietam. The western theater was much different though. The Union won every battle except for one. The Union won the battles of Fort Donelson Long, Battle of Shiloh, and the Siege of Vicksburg. The one loss the Union had in the western theater was the Battle of Chickamauga. The final theater is the naval theater. Throughout the whole war the Union usually came out on top. For example the battle of Baton Rouge is an example of a naval battle when the Union clearly won the battle. Although there were some naval battle with "no clear winner" like the battle of Hampton Roads, the Confederates still retreated first. All in all in two of the three theaters the Union was the clear winner.
Essential Question #2
What are some commonalities you can identify in the reasons for the results of the battles?
In the beginning of the civil war the Confederates strategy seemed to work. Their strategy of holding their ground and protecting their territory was much easier than the Unions who had to push forward through the Confederates defenses. Eventually though the Confederacy tried to expand (Battle of Antietam) and they were unsuccessful. The North's endless waves of soldiers was eventually able to break the Confederates lines. The reasons that the Union is able to produce so many troops because of their population, ability to produce weapons, and ability to transport materials and food. Read more on the topic in my post titled "Infographic"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hLOw-7rS7QhMOWO22LcxioAL9kcYsvjBSvEnrYnDjRM/edit
Essential Question #1
Who was the ultimate victor in each of the theaters: East, West, Naval?
Based on the evidence the Union is the ultimate winner. Although the South won most of the battles in the Eastern theater including the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, Fort Sumter, Bull Run and Second Manassas, the Union still won the battles of Gettysburg, Sherman's March to the Sea, Appomattox Campaign, and Antietam. The western theater was much different though. The Union won every battle except for one. The Union won the battles of Fort Donelson Long, Battle of Shiloh, and the Siege of Vicksburg. The one loss the Union had in the western theater was the Battle of Chickamauga. The final theater is the naval theater. Throughout the whole war the Union usually came out on top. For example the battle of Baton Rouge is an example of a naval battle when the Union clearly won the battle. Although there were some naval battle with "no clear winner" like the battle of Hampton Roads, the Confederates still retreated first. All in all in two of the three theaters the Union was the clear winner.
Essential Question #2
What are some commonalities you can identify in the reasons for the results of the battles?
In the beginning of the civil war the Confederates strategy seemed to work. Their strategy of holding their ground and protecting their territory was much easier than the Unions who had to push forward through the Confederates defenses. Eventually though the Confederacy tried to expand (Battle of Antietam) and they were unsuccessful. The North's endless waves of soldiers was eventually able to break the Confederates lines. The reasons that the Union is able to produce so many troops because of their population, ability to produce weapons, and ability to transport materials and food. Read more on the topic in my post titled "Infographic"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hLOw-7rS7QhMOWO22LcxioAL9kcYsvjBSvEnrYnDjRM/edit
Monday, March 10, 2014
Infogram
The advantages and strategies of the North and South effected the outcome of the war greatly. The Norths advantages of railroad mileage, population, surplus of factories and manufactured goods outweighed the South's for many reason. The South's advantages of more military colleges and more cotton produced could not balance out the advantages the North had. Plus the North had a much better strategy, to divide and conquer. There plan was to use the Mississippi river to cut the South into two using there larger navy made it easier, not only to take over, but it also cut off supplies. They also used their navy to stop southern shipments of cotton. This is relevant because by stopping the shipments the Southerners would not be able to fuel the war. The infogram is so helpful because by using the charts and graphs it really gave me a visual of some of the advantages the two had over each other.
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