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http://www.tomrichey.net Mr. Richey gives a detailed summary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which re-defined the North's approach to fighting the Civil War. This information will be helpful to US History students and lifelong learners.

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A brief review of everything important about The Civil War that you need to know to succeed in APUSH. If you would like to download the PowerPoint used in this video, please click here: http://www.apushreview.com/new-ap-curriculum/period-5-1844-1877/ Other Videos that relate to this topic: Manifest Destiny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6CRsl54Hg0 Bleeding Kansas:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL5ZI_t4Gy0 Dred Scott v.

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American Pageant Chapter 20-21 APUSH Review

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APUSH American Pageant Chapters 20 and 21 Review Video

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If you would like to download the PowerPoint used in this video, please go here: http://www.apushreview.com/textbook-chapter-review-videos-2/american-pageant-13th-edition-chapter-review-videos/chapter-review-videos-2/ All the information that AP wants you to know about the Civil War. Key terms, ideas, and acts are covered that occurred during the Civil War.

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strengths and weaknesses: north vs. south

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Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South [ushistory.org]

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Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South

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Strategies, Advantages, and Disadvantages for the North and South

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Strategies, Advantages, and Disadvantages for the North and South

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By Dr. James McPherson

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A Brief Overview of the American Civil War

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This page features an overview of the war written by James McPherson.

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History.com

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Civil War Technology Exclusive Videos & Features - HISTORY.com

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Check out exclusive Civil War Technology videos and features. Browse the latest Civil War Technology videos and more on HISTORY.com.

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In many ways, the coming of the Civil War challenged the ideology of Victorian domesticity that had defined the lives of men and women in the antebellum era. In the North and in the South, the war forced women into public life in ways they could scarcely have imagined a generation before.

Background

In the years before the Civil War, the lives of American women were shaped by a set of ideals that historians call "the Cult of True Womanhood." As men's work moved away from the home and into shops, offices and factories, the household became a new kind of place: a private, feminized domestic sphere, a "haven in a heartless world." "True women" devoted their lives to creating a clean, comfortable, nurturing home for their husbands and children.

Did you know? More than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, however, American women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses. It was the first time in American history that women played a significant role in a war effort. By the end of the war, these experiences had expanded many Americans' definitions of "true womanhood."

Fighting for the Union

With the outbreak of war in 1861, women and men alike eagerly volunteered to fight for the cause. In the Northern states, women organized ladies' aid societies to supply the Union troops with everything they needed, from food (they baked and canned and planted fruit and vegetable gardens for the soldiers) to clothing (they sewed and laundered uniforms, knitted socks and gloves, mended blankets and embroidered quilts and pillowcases) to cash (they organized door-to-door fundraising campaigns, county fairs and performances of all kinds to raise money for medical supplies and other necessities).

But many women wanted to take a more active role in the war effort. Inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale and her fellow nurses in the Crimean War, they tried to find a way to work on the front lines, caring for sick and injured soldiers and keeping the rest of the Union troops healthy and safe.

In June 1861, they succeeded: The federal government agreed to create "a preventive hygienic and sanitary service for the benefit of the army" called the United States Sanitary Commission. The Sanitary Commission's primary objective was to combat preventable diseases and infections by improving conditions (particularly "bad cookery" and bad hygiene) in army camps and hospitals. It also worked to provide relief to sick and wounded soldiers. By war's end, the Sanitary Commission had provided almost $15 million in supplies-the vast majority of which had been collected by women-to the Union Army.

Nearly 20,000 women worked more directly for the Union war effort. Working-class white women and free and enslaved African-American women worked as laundresses, cooks and "matrons," and some 3,000 middle-class white women worked as nurses. The activist Dorothea Dix, the superintendent of Army nurses, put out a call for responsible, maternal volunteers who would not distract the troops or behave in unseemly or unfeminine ways: Dix insisted that her nurses be "past 30 years of age, healthy, plain almost to repulsion in dress and devoid of personal attractions." (One of the most famous of these Union nurses was the writer Louisa May Alcott.)

Army nurses traveled from hospital to hospital, providing "humane and efficient care for wounded, sick and dying soldiers." They also acted as mothers and housekeepers-"havens in a heartless world"-for the soldiers under their care.

Women of the Confederacy

White women in the South threw themselves into the war effort with the same zeal as their Northern counterparts. The Confederacy had less money and fewer resources than did the Union, however, so they did much of their work on their own or through local auxiliaries and relief societies. They, too, cooked and sewed for their boys. They provided uniforms, blankets, sandbags and other supplies for entire regiments. They wrote letters to soldiers and worked as untrained nurses in makeshift hospitals. They even cared for wounded soldiers in their homes.

Many Southern women, especially wealthy ones, relied on slaves for everything and had never had to do much work. However, even they were forced by the exigencies of wartime to expand their definitions of "proper" female behavior.

Slaves and Freedwomen

Slave women were, of course, not free to contribute to the Union cause. Moreover, they had never had the luxury of "true womanhood" to begin with: As one historian pointed out, "being a women never saved a single female slave from hard labor, beatings, rape, family separation, and death." The Civil War promised freedom, but it also added to these women's burden. In addition to their own plantation and household labor, many slave women had to do the work of their husbands and partners too: The Confederate Army frequently impressed male slaves, and slaveowners fleeing from Union troops often took their valuable male slaves, but not women and children, with them. (Working-class white women had a similar experience: While their husbands, fathers and brothers fought in the Army, they were left to provide for their families on their own.)

A Women's Proper Place?

During the Civil War, women especially faced a host of new duties and responsibilities. For the most part, these new roles applied the ideals of Victorian domesticity to "useful and patriotic ends." However, these wartime contributions did help expand many women's ideas about what their "proper place" should be.

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In many ways, the coming of the Civil War challenged the ideology of Victorian domesticity that had defined the lives of men and women in the antebellum era. In the North and in the South, the war forced women into public life in ways they could scarcely have imagined a generation before.

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The Civil War, Part I: Crash Course US History #20

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The Civil War Part 2: Crash Course US History #21

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Battle Of Gettysburg | Civil War Documentary

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The Emancipation Proclamation Explained: US History Review

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The Emancipation Strategy | National Geographic

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center for new media teaching and learning

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MOOC | The Political Crisis of 1850 | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1861 | 1.4.3

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Discover how the issue of slavery came to dominate American politics, and how political leaders struggled and failed to resolve the growing crisis in the nation. A House Divided: The Road to Civil War, 1850-1861, is a course that begins by examining how generations of historians have explained the crisis of the Union.

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Emancipation Proclamation | The Civil War era (1844-1877) | US History | Khan Academy

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Kim and Sal talk about the Emancipation Proclamation. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/gilded-age/v/the-gilded-age-part-1?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=UShistory Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/slavery-and-the-civil-war/v/early-phases-of-civil-war-and-antietam?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=UShistory US history on Khan Academy: From a mosquito-ridden backwater to the world's last remaining superpower, the United States of America is a nation with a rich history and a noble goal: government of the people, by the people, for the people.