https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison en-us 2017-05-12 19:06:20 UTC 2017-05-16 18:27:34 UTC hello@padlet.com dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171714913 -South Carolina is the first of the total 11 states to secede from the union and eventually form the Confederate States of America.]]> 2017-05-14 23:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171714913 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715136 Confederate States of America officialy formed.]]> 2017-05-14 23:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715136 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715229 The start to the Civil War.]]> 2017-05-14 23:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715229 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715296 Congress now allows that African Americans can enlist into the Union Army.]]> 2017-05-14 23:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715296 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715378 There are now about 5,000 black volenteers to fight in the Unions army.]]> 2017-05-14 23:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715378 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715483 Congress grants equal pay for black soldiers.]]> 2017-05-14 23:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715483 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715606 Confederate States of America issue a law allowing the use of slaves in the war.]]> 2017-05-14 23:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715606 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715798 The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery everywhere in the United States.]]> 2017-05-14 23:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715798 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715952 2017-05-14 23:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171715952 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171716404 -By the end of the civil war, about 179,000 black men served as soldiers in the United States Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy.]]> 2017-05-14 23:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171716404 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171716887 - Around 40,000 African-American soldiers died.
- 30,000 of them by infection, or disease.]]> 2017-05-14 23:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171716887 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171717031 -The African-American soldiers at the start of the war were mostly just put into noncombat jobs such as chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, and surgeons. ]]> 2017-05-14 23:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171717031 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171717678 - Although black women could not formally join the army, a lot of times they still served as nurses, spies, and scouts. The most famous black woman being Harriet Tubman. Harriet scouted for the 2d South Carolina Volunteers.]]> 2017-05-15 00:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171717678 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718019 -Because of the obvious anger toward African-Americans they were not used in the war as extensively as they could have been.]]> 2017-05-15 00:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718019 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718301 -By the end of the war, 16 black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honor for their extensive courage and dedication in the war. This shows one of the many ways the Union hoped that racism in the United States was coming to an end.]]> 2017-05-15 00:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718301 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718553 - Although there were many hopes of racism coming to its end there were also many ways of it spreading even further. For example, due to several Union soldiers' opinions of how having mixed racial troops was causing problems, several segregated troops were formed with all black soldiers and white commanders.]]> 2017-05-15 00:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718553 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718908 - Another segregation  issue that was eventually solved was the pay of black soldiers to white soldiers. Black soldiers were initially paid $10 with $3 deducted for clothing while white soldiers were paid $13 with no clothing deduction. But, as shown in the time line above, this was changed in July, 1864]]> 2017-05-15 00:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171718908 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171972735 - The Civil War wasn't the first war that involved racism. In the Revolutionary and War of 1812 black soldiers were excluded and not allowed to fight. ]]> 2017-05-16 00:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171972735 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171972899 -On January 1, 1863, President Abe Lincoln signed the emancipation proclomation declaring "All persons held as slaves within any states... in rebellion against the United States, shall be free thenceforward and forever free." Although the Confederate States did not feel obligated to follow these laws this was a huge turning point for the Union becase the African-Americans were now allowed to fight in the war.]]> 2017-05-16 00:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171972899 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973267 -The "54th Massachusetts Volenteer Infantry Regiment" was one of the first battles in the war using units of black soldiers in the Unions armed forces.]]> 2017-05-16 00:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973267 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973446 - One of the main reasons it took so long for president Abe Lincoln to decide to sign the emancipation proclomation is beacuse he was scared that allowing African-Americans to fight in the war would cause boarder states such as Maryland, or Kentucky to secede.]]> 2017-05-16 00:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973446 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973884 - After this law was passed to allow black soldiers in the war not many recruitments occured until people from the Bureau of Colored Troops such as Fredrick Douglass started going out and explaining all of the possibilities of ways it would benifit them. Things like how it was more likely to ensure their full freedom rights and so on.]]> 2017-05-16 00:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171973884 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171974428 -Repercussions of this decision to allow black soldiers were rough. In most cases when a black soldier was captured they suffered way worse treatment than the white soldiers who were imprisioned. ]]> 2017-05-16 00:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171974428 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171975014 - In the battle of Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864, a disorganized unit of about 600 men, half of them being black suffered almost 575 casualties even after surrendur they continued to be brutally attacked and murdured and considered a massacre.]]> 2017-05-16 00:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171975014 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171975810 - Even after the law was passed of allowing African-Americans to fight the south refused to arm them and continued to use them as slaves being cooks working in their infirmarys and other non-combat jobs against their will.]]> 2017-05-16 00:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171975810 dehecele https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171976370 - Although the south strongly oposed using their slaves in the combat war in the last few months of the war when they were running low on troops they resulted in using them anyway. Many people believe that this was a major mistake for the south and could of been part of the reason that the Union won the war so soon after.]]> 2017-05-16 00:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dehecele/civilwarcomparison/wish/171976370