Monitor v.s. Virginia

The C.S.S Virginia, also called the Merrimack. Its called the Merrimack by the North, because the North had a shipyard in Virginia. But when Virginia left the North and became a South state the shipyard was overtaken by Confederates. When the Union evacuated the shipyard they destroyed the U.S.S Merrimack, but in a hurry they failed to completely destroy her. The Confederates saved what they could of the Merrimack wooden ship, from the remains they made the C.S.S Virgina. On board the Virginia were ten cannons, at the front of the ship was a sold ed iron claw like thing. That they used to ram other ships, which is how the Virginia took out the Cumberland, a Union ship. At the battle of Hampton Roads, the Virgina destroyed, and sank the Cumberland. Then moved on to destroy the other Union wooden ship Congress. The caption of the Virgina had a brother on the Congress but he still proceed to destroy it. Later they burned it after letting the ship men evacuate. The Monitor arrived the next day, to stop the Virgina in her next attack.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

Donkey Vs. Elephant

In many political cartoons, the donkey (representing the Democratic party) is shown fighting against the elephant (representing the Republican Party)

Madi M, Frank's Team

Abraham Lincoln

Here is a picture of Abraham Lincoln.

C.S.S. Virginia

C.S.S. stands for Confederates State Ship.

The Virginia was in the Hampton Roads battle against the U.S.S. (Union State Ship) Monitor. It hit the Monitor 25 times and got hit 20 times. The Monitor tried to ram the Virginia but it didn't do much damage. Eventually won the battle and the Monitor sunk.

Eva Daliana, Frank's Project Team

USS Monitor v.s CSS Virginia

John Ericsson, disliked the US Navy and did want anything to do with it, but finally was convinced to build the Ironclad by Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. USS, means Union States Ship. So the USS Monitor was a Union ship. USS Monitor would inflict lots of damage on any wooden boat. But in the battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The USS Monitor went up agents the CSS Virginia. (CSS, means Confederate States Ship.) The CSS Virginia also had armor protecting it, unlike John Ericsson, the Confederates covered a wooden boat with iron creating the CSS Virginia. The captain of the USS Monitor decide after the battle had lasted many hours to ram into the CSS Virginia. More damage happened to the USS Monitor, when the CSS Virginia dodged them. The USS Monitor was moved into shallow waters to wait out the rest of the battle.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

Pickett's Charge

Pickett's Charge was the last day of the battle of Gettysburg, which was on July 3rd, 1863.

Invention of the USS Monitor

The USS Monitor was made in amazing 100 days. At first John Ericsson inventor of the USS Monitor, did not want to build a ship for the USA. But was later forced by officials to create a ship. When John Ericsson presented his planes for armored ship people were ecstatic, nobody ever before had thought of it. The finished date of the USS Monitor was March 6th 1862. The picture is of a monument of John Ericsson in Battery park, NYC. (John Ericsson July 31st 1803, March 8th 1889.)


Megan Beal,
Frank's Design Team

North or South??? The Democratic Parties

The difference between a Northern Democrat and a Southern Democrat:
A Northern Democrat probably did not believe in slavery, and was not super conservative. That means that they were looking to the future and had new ideas.
A Southern Democrat believed in slavery, and also had new ideas and a better outlook for the future. A Democrat is a Democrat no matter how you look at it, but maybe it's just a cover. What's in a name, anyway???

Madi M, Frank's Team

• Southern Democrats and Northern Democrats are both members of the U.S. Democratic Party. The Southern resided in the South and the Northern, the North.

• Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats were largely set apart by opinions of slavery

• Northerners opposed slavery and Southerners fiercely defended it.
  

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

North or South??

This post has now been moved. It is now under the name "North or South?? The Democratic Parties"

Mariah Shriner and Madi M., Frank's Project Team

Raid at Harpers Ferry

The raid at Harpers Ferry involved a "mad" abolitionist, five black men, 17 more abolitionists, a doctor, a general, and 88 marines. The "mad" abolitionist was John Brown. His followers included the 17 abolitionists, 3 free blacks, 1 freed slave, and 1 fugitive slave. John Brown wanted to start a slave revolt. He thought, "If I'm going to start a revolt, the slaves will need weapons." so he decided to raid a weapons cache at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He successfully captured the cache but the first shot that he fired with the new weapons accidentally hit a black man who was working on a train. A doctor heard the shot and came right away. He said that the wound was to bad to heal and that he couldn't do anything about it. Once he saw that there was abolitionists he started thinking about what he was going to do. He said that he was going to go back to his house and go to bed but instead he went straight to the town stables. He road to all of the surrounding towns shouting that there was an abolitionist taking over Harpers Ferry. General Lee (who was a general for the confederates happened to be in one of those towns but sadly he wasn't with his army. He immediately gathered any town militia who were willing to fight. There was also a group of marines in a different town. They teamed up with General Lee and took back Harpers Ferry. John Brown was then tried for treason and was eventually hung.

Kian, Franks Design Team

Navelty

The Navelty was one of the entries in the Rainhill Trials. It was built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite. This Design was based on road steam carriages. Navelties are a upright boilers. This was built in six weeks and weighing 2-3 tons. It was one of the smaller entries.

Eva D., Frank's Project team

Presidential Election of 1860, Part 2

The presidential election of 1860 was crucial. The country was full of unrest. Fortunately, Abraham Lincoln won the race and became the United State's top commander. According to several prominent historian and presidential critics, Lincoln had surprising skill and that is why he prevailed. but on April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired on, and the Civil War began. Lincoln threw a curve ball and took the first legs of war like an old veteran. he had surprising skill and courage for someone with not a lot of political experience. More to come about his presidency!

Madi M, Frank's Design Team

Carry Amelia Nation / Carry Amelia Moore

Carry Amelia Nation, previously Carry Amelia Moore, started a movement for the prohibition of alcohol. At 6 ft tall, and 175 pounds, she was known to enter a bar(at the time, an alcohol serving establishment) and massacre the bar with a hatchet. She lived from November 25, 1846, to June 9th, 1911. She was married to a severe alcoholic who died one year after their daughter was born. She published her first chapter in 1892 in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and in May of the 1900, she started her full crusade. She was beaten to death by a "joint" owner in Montana. People are known to believe that women's rights would not be the same without her.
EDIT:

More Information about her Here
(click the HERE)
Helena, Franks Project Team.

Election of 1860

(You can click on the picture to see the key more clearly)

This is a cool picture I found of results of the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln was elected. Below is a website that had a lot of information on the election and why people liked Lincoln.

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~clawson/Election1860.html

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln won all but one of the free states?

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

More on John Brown

John Brown died in 1859 shortly after he unsuccessfully raided a weapons cache in Harpers Ferry.
He was born in May of 1800 and had a wife and was the forth of eight kids. You can get more information if you type in John Brown (Abolitionist) on wikipedia.org or you can just look on google. There is also a website that has good information called www.johnbrown.org

Kian

USS Monitor

USS Monitor did not sink beacuse of a torpedo. She sank while heading south, a large storm left her lost at sea on December 31 1862. She was found in 1974, and now is in a marine santuary. She was a 987-ton ship, designed by John Ericsson, a Swedish engineer.

Megan Beal,

Frank's Design Team

Quaker Background

• Quakers are also known as The Religious Society of Friends.
• Began in England in the 1600's
• In the early days it faced Opposition and Prosecution
• Extended to East Africa and Americas
• Pennsylvania (2nd state, became state in 1787) was founded by William Penn as a safe place to live and practice their religion
• They were a significant part of abolishing slavery and other movements

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

Stephen Arnold Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas was Abraham Lincoln's closest competitor in the presidential election of 1860. He got over 25% of the vote. he supported the Dred Scott decision and was against slavery. He was a Northern Democrat, compared to a Southern Democrat. I stumbled upon him when researching the election of 1860, when Lincoln ( a Republican) was elected. I thought he seemed like an interesting person.

Madi M., Frank's Design Team

Search Stephen A. Douglas on Wikipedia for more information.

Oops!

The Battle of Gettysburg began quite accidentally. On July 1, 1863, two Confederate Brigades under the overall command of General Heth moved in to occupy the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to them, the town was already occuppied by two Union Calvary Brigades commanded by General John Buford. The fighting broke out around 8 a.m. as the Confederate Brigades moved in from the Northwest. The battle ended with the South's retreat, and 51,112 individuals being killed, wounded, missing or captured.
Jeff Yoder,
Frank's project team!

John Ericsson

John Ericsson invented the first Ironclad for the Union. Her name was "Monitor". In February 25th 1862 she was shot down with a torpedo and was not recovered until December 31 1862.

Megan Beal, Frank's Design Team

Interesting pictures of segregation.

A Black on looker watches whites work while he can't

A Sign outside of a restaurant

A sign hung outside of a white bar

These images are from around the country showing the segregation of the 40's and 60's.

Andrew Wheeler, Frank's Team

underground railroad adventure!

This website is really cool you can follow the underground railroad! Click underground railroad
have fun!

Danielle
franks design team

the underground railroad route

these are routes that people on the underground railroad traveled on, north to freedom on. the red is every route that the slaves went on using Harriet Tubman's brilliance for escape.

gabby
franks design team!!!

Presidential Election of 1860

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as a Republican to President. His closest competitor was Stephan A. Douglas. Lincoln received 39.8% of the total vote. About 4,685,030 people voted, as compared to 122 million in 2004. His running mate was Hannibal Hamlin. He was later assassinated.

Please visit http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/ for more information, and a detailed timeline of Lincoln's too-short life.

Madi M, Frank's Project Team

Abraham Lincoln

A little bit about Abraham Lincoln:

• He lost 30 pounds during the time he was president.

• He was Melancholy (chronically depressed) and took the anti-depressant of the time, called Blue Mass. He became addicted to Blue Mass, but broke his addiction after he was elected. At Megan's request, I looked up Blue Mass on Wikipedia and found out some really interesting facts:

1. Blue Mass was used for child birth pains, tuberculosis, constipation, toothache, and parasitic infections.
2. Blue mass wasn't always made by the same pharmacist, but all versions contained mercury.
3. Over time, most people taking Blue Mass were certain to get mercury poisoning. However, most of the effects of mercury poisoning are reversible. Some people think that the Blue Mass that Lincoln took was the cause of erratic behavior and angry rages.
   
4. A typical daily dose of two or three pills is more than one hundred times the daily limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency in the US today!
5. It is also thought that Ulysses S. Grant and other famous historical figures also took Blue Mass.

To read the full article about Blue Mass, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mass

• Abraham Lincoln had three sons.
• His sons, Tad & Willie, got typhoid fever from the White House's foul water supply. Tad survived, but Willie died.
• His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, had a bad habit of taking from the White House's books.
• Abraham Lincoln got shot at 10:13pm on April 14th, 1865, during the third act of Our American Cousin at the Ford's Theater. His assassin was John Wilkes Booth.
  

Hope this is helpful!

Mona

Great Jim Crow Website

This Jim Crow Website has a very interesting interactive map and lots of information on a lot of African American History.

Emma Childs
Deborah's Design Team

Old Cameras

This is a image of what the cameras looked like back then. And how they used a whole tent to take a picture.


~Olivia

Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow laws were first called the Black Codes. In the southern states African Americans were not allowed to vote or join the legislature. They had to stay separate--in transportation, restaurants, schools, theatres and like this picture shows- bathrooms too. By the 1890's the term Jim Crow Laws meant the separation of African Americans and European Americans and the general customs that discriminate against African Americans as inferior.

Emma Childs
Deborah's Design Team

Ellen Craft

Ellen Craft was a slave and was husbands with William. They disguised as a white man and a slave. They wanted to move to the "free states".

Frederick Douglass

These are some facts I found about Frederick Douglass

* Born on February 14, 1817
* He was an American abolitionist and journalist
* He is often referred to as the "father" of the modern civil rights movement
* He was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland
* He spent his teen years as a houseboy in Baltimore
* He escaped to North to New Bedford, Massachussetts in 1836
* In 1841 he began a career as an abolitionist
* He served as U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), and U.S. minister of Haiti (1889-91)
* He died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1895

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/douglass.html

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

Women in the war

These websites that i found are very interesting and include a lot of good information. They talk all about how women fought in the war and how they helped out during the war. They also include some photographs. Hope you like them!




here are the links:
http://americancivilwar.com/women/index.html
http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html

-Dani G, Franks project team

Union Ironclad "Monitor"

The first Union Ironclad named "Monitor" to sink in a battle. It sank December 31st 1862 off cap Hatteras, NC.

For information visit Wikipedia.

Megan Beal, Frank's Design Team

Sharps carbine 1848

The Sharps Carbine 1848 was one of the first repeating rifles though the Winchester
was the first. This was the first sniper.

Yes sniper.


Jaden

The North Star and other "maps" North

The North Star was a "map" for escaping slaves. The star is in the North sky. It is also called Polaris. In the northern states many people were apposed to slavery and were willing to help the escaped slaves even though it was against the law. Their final goal was Canada. The North Star is part of what many people call the Big Dipper.
There were other ways to find the way north. Moss grows on the Northern side of the tree and birds migrate North in the summer.
Many escaping slaves used these "maps" to find freedom in the North.

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

Quilt History

http://www.quilthistory.com/ugrrquilts.htm

This is a website with a bunch of quilt history.

Brody Helmer
Franks Design Studio

John Brown

John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who would always choose action over plans; this eventually got him hung. His most famous battle was over a weapons cache at Harpers Ferry.



Kian

Civil War Fact

The United States Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American History, claiming more lives than The American Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, The War against Switzerland, The War of 1812, and the Vietnam War combined. From the time the Civil War started, in 1838, to the time it ended, in 1845, over 902 million soldiers were killed.


-http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm


Jeff Yoder
Frank's project team!

Good website with a map

I found a really good website that has a lot of good information on it. On the opening page, there is a map that shows which states are supporting the confederates or the unions. It seems legitimate and its good, so check it out...

Here's the link:
http://www.civilwar.com/

-Ellie from Frank's Project Team

green road church

this picture of Green road church of English school. also known as old Bletchley' s school and saint Mary's
church of English school.

Gettysburg

Eva Daliana, Franks Project Team

SHERMAN

This is general Sherman.He fought for the Union and took over Atlanta. Which helped the Union a lot.

Brody Helmer
Franks Design Studio

Dred Scott

Dred Scott was a slave who sued his owner unsuccessfully for his freedom. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. He said that he and his wife were slaves, but lived in a state where slavery was illegal. He lived in Wisconsin. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against him, saying that no African American could claim citizenship t in the USA, so he had no right to say this.

Visit Wikipedia for more information.

Madi M, Frank's Design Team

Recruitment Poster for Colored People

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."

Frederick Douglass

On July 22 1862 Congress passed the Second Confiscation and Militia Act, freeing slaves who had masters in the Confederate Army. Two days later, slavery was taken away in the territories of the United States, and on July 22 President Lincoln presented the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet. After the Union Army turned back Lee's first invasion of the North at Antietam, MD, and the Emancipation Proclamation was subsequently announced, black recruitment was pursued in earnest. Volunteers from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Massachusetts filled the first authorized black regiments. Recruitment was slow until black leaders such as Frederick Douglass (photo citation: 200-FL-22) encouraged black men to become soldiers to ensure eventual full citizenship. (Two of Douglass's own sons contributed to the war effort.) Volunteers began to respond, and in May 1863 the Government established the Bureau of Colored Troops to manage the burgeoning numbers of black soldiers.

Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were laws that segregated white people from colored people. Most of the laws were in the southern states although there were some in the northern states. They started in 1876, a couple years after the southern states lost the civil war, the reason they started was that most of the white southerners couldn't stand seeing their former slaves having equal rights and sometimes, political power.

                                                     Laura from Deborah's design group

Seneca Falls Women

These women played a large roll in the

Seneca Falls convention/women's rights movement.

Elizabeth Cady was the leader of the movement.



-Deborah's design team

California Gold Rush

Above is an ad for a steam ship headed for California and the gold rush. It left from Nicaragua on March 23rd, 1849
this posting and the posting below are from Deborah's design team (Emma)

The California Gold Rush

The California Gold rush was a world wide excitement. People from all over the country and the World even rushed to California in 1849 in hope to gain a fortune. People got "gold fever", and expected gold to be pouring out of rivers. Many men came and left with nothing.
The Gold rush started in 1849 when James Marshall (shown left) who was hired as a field worker for John Shutter (shown right) found a piece of metal a river in Sacramento, California. He brought it to Shutter, tested it and found out it was gold!
Shutter wanted to keep it a secret because he didn't want his workers leaving the fields. He told Marshall to keep it a secret, but word got out!!! By late 1848, news was spread across the nation. Many people came with high hopes, but instead of gold found riverbanks overflowing with people. Some people started businesses selling tools and supplies to the minors where they made more money than the gold searchers. In 1859 the minors left to Nevada where silver had been discovered.

DRUMMER BOYS

DRUMMER BOYS

In the Civil War, young boys were drafted into the military to play the drum for the soldiers. Not only did the beat of the drum give the soldiers a steady marching pace, but the big sounds of the drum were also used for cues, instead of yelling. The Drummer Boys of the Civil War, were mostly teenage, ranging specifically in age from about 13-16, just young enough to not be involved in the full-on fighting.

Deborah's Project Team (Sophie and Isabel - TOPIC)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the leader of a Women's rights movement called Seneca Falls Convention. It was the first Convention for women in America.

The Convention was held in New York on July 19 1848. 300 people attended, and 40 were men. They wanted to discuss the social, civil and religious rights of a woman.

This Convention was labeled as "birthplace of feminism".

Deborah's Desgin Team

Friendly People Ignore Racism

In 1859, there was a black man who's name was Hays. One day Hays was beaten up by thugs that Kimble, his white employer, had payed. Kimble was a republican. Later, going through the court process, some democrats heard about what was going on, and for some time they were on Hays side.
Lauren Meininger Franks project team

The Fifer

This picture was done during the Civil War by Eastman Johnson.

Eva dailana, Frank's project team.

Battle of Getteysburg

The Battle of Geteysburg was called "the turning point." The battle took place July 1-3 1869 and 46,286 soldiers were killed, wounded and captured.

"The South had been wining most of the battles. the North needed a big win. The North defended high ground which gave them an advantage. The North also had new leadership and the kind of decisions military by Meade and other leaders of the North were not anticipated by the South. The result was a hard fought battle with great loss of life, at a great extension of supply lines of the South. At the end of the battle, the South was without significant leadership resources and its morale was low. The war trended down hill from there. "

Rory Deborah's project team

Faith Ringgold Tar Beach 2

Here is a very neat story quilt I found. it's by Faith Ringgold, and was in her book Tar Beach. The book was filled with beautiful quilts. The book is about a girl who realizes her dreams on the top of an apartment building.

Posted by Madi Moskowitz, Frank's Design Team

Pentagon quilts

This is a picture of a quilt I found on the Internet. It is part of a series called the Pentagon quilts that were made by children following 9/11. You can read an article about it at the following website:

http://www.usvets.tv/pentagon_quilts/030909/event_030909_pentagon_quilts.cfm

I posted this quilt because it seems similar to what we are doing. Each piece has a symbol representing something.

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

Faith Ringgold - Flag Story Quilt

Here is a Faith Ringgold quilt. We thought you would be interested in seeing. The title is Flag Story Quilt.

Please visit this web page so you can get more information:

http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/d37.htm

Frank's Project Team

Announcement

Today on Feb. 19, the project manager of the Belthorne Design Studios announced that we will be designing and creating a historical quilt representing American history from 1849-1900. The historical quilt will be placed in New Orleans, in an act to restore and rebuild this great american city from the devistation that was hurricane Katrina. The piece will be placed sometime during this coming summer. The council of the arts will be the ones deciding the placement of the piece.

BelThorne communications blog.