CWR - Key Concepts Lesson
Key Concepts
Before you begin...
Notes are given here as well as in the Readings Document from Boundless that is available to download below. There are six presentation over the next few pages (which questions may be drawn from as well). This key concepts lesson is very important as it covers the main areas of the Advanced Placement frameworks and the Georgia Performance Standards. Many of the test questions will relate to items found here.
Download the key concepts questions that are found below and answer these as you read and view the information. The answers are found in the text on this and the following pages, the Readings Document, and in the presentation. After you have done this you will use these answers to take the assignment check quiz for this module. Again, it is very important that you answer the questions carefully before taking the assignment check.
As you begin your study of the Civil War, view and listen to the presentation that follows.
North versus South
When southern forces opened fire on Union forces at Fort Sumter, they began a war that would last four years and take the lives of 621,000 soldiers. From the start, the Confederacy was at a serious disadvantage. The southern economy differed greatly from the economy of the northern states, and, in the end, the numerical and industrial superiority of the northern economy proved too much for the South to overcome.
Habeas Corpus
Not all northerners supported President Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union. Some were Confederate sympathizers (just as some southerners were Union sympathizers). Throughout the war, in some states Lincoln suspended the constitutional right of habeas corpus - the legal rule that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody. The Constitution allows a president to suspend habeas corpus during a national emergency. Lincoln used his emergency powers to legalize the holding of Confederate sympathizers without trial and without a judge agreeing they were legally imprisoned. Over 13,000 Confederate sympathizers were arrested in the North.
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