Walt Whitman

As you see, this is how much we love to kill our fellow man: six barrel pistols, swords and much much more.
All the time we're creating new ways to kill people, when we could be creating ways to make peace.




Daylan

Help-Good website

So,

I found this good website that has a short timeline of all the major events during the civil war. Heres the URL:
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

But, it's not what I need! I need a good website that has information on Art. If you have found any good ones, please tell me!

Thanks,
Ellie (Franks design team)

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!

Please, Please, Please...

On the Quilting a Nation blog please combine you blogs. Example: Your topic is kids. Instead of posting a new post for every picture, please combne it into one post.'

Thank you!

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team

women during the civil war by owen and julia

Most women would stay home and watch over the farm and children but some were able to actually be in the war either by dressing up as men and going off to fight in the war or maybe becoming a nurse and if they were really lucky then they might become spies. 

                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                  

Because of their husbands not being there to help support them and their family and the need for workers in factories most women would get a job to help with supporting their family but if a man had worked half the time a women did then he'd still get paid more. 

public schools by owen and julia

The picture in the top left is of a family that built some of the public schools in their county.

The picture in the top right is of a old 1800 school house.

The picture to our left is of a 1800's school house and the 1 up above and the one to are left are of 1900 schools and it shows you how much they've changed.  They went from a 1 room school house to ones with quite a few more rooms.

runaway slaves

Harriet Tubmin was a brave woman, she use to be a slave, but then she escaped. After she escaped she went back to her hometown and helped other slaves run away. She was a very inportant person in the underground railroad. She helped run it and many people escaped on it.

The slaves in the picture next to the text are slaves who Harriet helped ascape .She helped lots of people get away from there slave owners. Harriet is a famouse escape slave along with Fredrick Douglas,Nat Turner, Ellen and William Craft. Fredrick Douglas also helped free slaves and he too was hung.

public schools by owen and julia

many angry whites would attack the colored schools because they didnt want them to learn.This happened at all colored schools.many colored kids changed to home schooling.


From 1620 to 1840 almost all schools were either private church schools or private charity schools.  Public schools made little progress until the ''social panic of the 1840's''.  then the school centralizers began the fight over public schools against the republic.  But the republic became distracted with the immigration of 3.5 million Irish immigrants which distracted and scared the republic enough to let the school centralizers win the fight over public schools.

Until the 1840's most schools used the bible and other religious literature but in the ''1840's concession'' it required that theological distinctions be taught at home or at church.  Then they slowly started to take out the big questions of life out of school like ''where did I come from'' ''is there any purpose of life'' ''is there life after the grave''      

Back in 1854, school out on the frontier was different from today. the kids wouldnt go to school in september.They would go in november.They did that because the kids would stay home to harvest and pick apples and pears and ect.Then when it got to november they would go to school.In class THere was kids of all colors.They would all be in one room.They would be sepperated in class by books.Then later the kids would do a report on the book and they would have to recite it to the class or to the teacher quitly.In the winter most boys would stay home to take care of the farm.The older boys would never go to school in the summer because of the farm.in class there would be kids that are 3 and 4 and there would be kids older than the teacher.
Sometimes the students were given a Reward of Merit, which showed them that they had done well. It was an honor to receive this certificate because paper and printed materials were scarce on the frontier.

poor hygene and living conditions

This image above is a picture of soldiers that have died on battle. These soldiers were not always healthy even though they went out to battle. Many had disease such as typhoid, measles, scurvy, small pox, and tuberculosis. A lot of the men did not know they had any disease until it was to late and they were in battle. They had no choice but to keep on fighting and that often spread the disease and made there disease so bad they died on the battle field like some of the men in this picture.
These men were very poorly fed and became so sick that they weighed just over 50 pounds. The camps were very harsh and often had trouble feeding all the men to the point where they could look like this. The men who were like this were very weak so they could barley keep them selves up. Other men could have disease where they through up so much that they lose most a lot of weight like these men could have done. They also could have a fatal disease of diarrhea where there body poops out every food that goes in them so they can not live because they can not eat.

Appomattox Court House

"This is the Appomattox Court House. Where a couple men decided to meet."

This Court House, Was the place where two men decided to meet. They met because they decided for the civil war. They were the ones that decided to make it happen.

This is the Hutchinson family. Back in the mid-1800s, they were famous protest singers, singing songs about war, racism, slavery and many more problems that happened in that time period. 

Ky Sharrer

                           Frank's project team

             For more info go to www.Hutchinsonfamily.com

Follow-up on Signing Posts

I just wanted to remind people to include their names and core class on the Quilting a Nation blog too.  Many of the posts are anonymous.

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Class

Please, everyone!

Please, everyone! Don't forget to put your names and who's team you are on when you post. It gets confusing for everyone when you don't know who posted what. For the teachers, too -- they can't figure out who to give credit to! And also don't forget the titles.Thank you so much!
-Project Managers
BelThorne Design Studios

Chamberlain's Charge

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US expands 1848 (From Deborah's class)

This is a poster-advertisement for a steam ship to California to 'make your fortune.'

(all though this is from Nicaragua, we just want to state a fact about Chinese: at the beginning of the California gold rush, there are around 7 Chinese in California. The three years following, there are about 20,000 and still more arriving! Anyway...)
The California gold rush was a time of huge expanding for the us because of all he immigrants who came in and settled and because and the huge economic boom that happened in the state. We think the California gold rush is actually kind of funny in it's own way because although EVERYONE who came to California during the gold rush was there to make money. The reason this is funny is because the miners themselves rarely made any money(they often came with more than they left with) but people how made companies that sold mining picks and such (and the people that owned the land) became ridiculously rich.

One more fact: since the economic boom happened so fast, the prices for everyday things(like water) soared in price. Since the miners were (temporarily) rich, some of them didn't mind spending as much as $100 for a glass of water in a bar!!! Above: (Please exuse the mild 'jack----' langauge: you know what they mean)
Above: An African-American man(free) finds gold.
Above: Some unlucky white miners

-Peter and Logan
Deborah's class

US expands 1848

US expands 1848 is a broad topic so I will be posting California gold rush pictures and mexican-american war pictures. I will clarify.

This is not one of my five images but I like it because it shows the making of the US perfectly.

Typical Civil War hospital

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This is a picture of a typical hospital during the Civil War. Most of the time the hospitals were a table with a couple candles in a tent. Sometimes the doctors were just regular soldiers because there were so many wounded people. Half of the time the doctors did not disinfect their tools, so even more people ended up with infections.

This is a portate of Washingtom Carver who invented about 300 peanut products so the economy would not fall for poor farmers.

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