Happy Monday 7th Grade!
Today, we are going to continue learning about how the Union's luck turned after Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Once the North had these two outstanding victories, they focused their attention on going even deeper into the South. General William Tecumseh Sherman, took his troops and went on a journey from Tennessee to Savannah, GA.
Let's take out our notebooks and write some notes!
Let's watch this video that goes more in depth about Sherman's March to the Sea! Take a few notes to get a little more information about the March.
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/e87c3309-6a33-4f31-9df3-909d1dd86f14/shermans-march/
Next, answer the following questions about the March to the Sea. After you are finished with that, write in your Primary Source Journal.
Today, we are going to continue learning about how the Union's luck turned after Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Once the North had these two outstanding victories, they focused their attention on going even deeper into the South. General William Tecumseh Sherman, took his troops and went on a journey from Tennessee to Savannah, GA.
Let's take out our notebooks and write some notes!
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- Beginning in November of 1864 Sherman took his men & journeyed South
- He began in Tennessee and marched his men to to the Atlantic Ocean
- Get it "March to the Sea"?!?!
- Get it "March to the Sea"?!?!
- Marched into Atlanta (huge city & capital of Georgia)
- Burned & destroyed the city
- Moved onto Savannah
- We last heard about Savannah during colonial times when a fort was constructed here
- Sherman and his men completed TOTAL WAR
- Total war: destruction of everything in Sherman's path
- Tore up railroads
- Stole from plantations & stores
- Destroyed lumber mills and cotton gins
- Total war: destruction of everything in Sherman's path
- Sherman captured Savannah on December 21st, 1864
- Gave Abraham Lincoln the city as a Christmas gift
- Beginning in November of 1864 Sherman took his men & journeyed South
- Once Savannah was reached, Sherman began moving northward into South Carolina
Let's watch this video that goes more in depth about Sherman's March to the Sea! Take a few notes to get a little more information about the March.
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/e87c3309-6a33-4f31-9df3-909d1dd86f14/shermans-march/
Next, answer the following questions about the March to the Sea. After you are finished with that, write in your Primary Source Journal.