A Nation Drawn and Quartered

In class, we explored the results of the election of 1860 and how they were representative of the nation's divisions over slavery.  In our exploration, we looked at events and some art from the Civil War era that showed the division of the Union.  We made a video explaining the context of the paintings and how they showed the separation.



Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY
 http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/causes/introduction/the-election-of-1860-and-seces
Image citations in video

Civil War Stats and Strategies Infographic

To make my infographic of the different situations faced by the North and South at the beginning of the American Civil War, I took the most significant statistics and the essentials of each region's war strategies to show the different ways in which each group fought the war. This helped me to understand how the North and South's different economies and strategies either helped them or hurt them. The South's economy was mainly reliant on cotton and agriculture, and if they couldn't trade with outside countries, they wouldn't be able to pay for resources because they had few factories to make goods themselves. The North, however, had many factories and cities and a denser population, allowing for manufacturing of goods and many soldiers.