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The End of the Civil War Unit 10
Theme
Structure
Detailed Analysis
Text Analysis
A. Lee’s decision to surrender (paras. 3-5) B. Lincoln’s vision (paras. 6-8) C. The Appomattox Surrender (paras. 9-15) III. The final surrender (paras. 16-22) A. Volatile situation after the surrender (paras. 16-19) B. The Bennett House Surrender (paras. 20-22)
research topic (what) rationale for the topic (why) approach (how)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part II (A): Discussion
1. What was the fateful choice facing Robert Lee?
as the Appomattox Surrender?
Warming up Check-on Preview
The Union
1. Abraham Lincoln 2. Ulysses S. Grant 3. Andrew Johnson 4. William Seward 5. Bill Sherman
2. In what ways was the ending of the American Civil War unique?
3. According to the author, what made this special ending possible?
4. In what ways was such an ending significant to the US?
attiring at the Appomattox House? 5. Against what a background did the Bennett House Surrender
take place? 6. Why did the Bennett House Surrender conclude the same way
✓True or False?
2. This war had many causes. What do the historians believe to be the primary? A. Political turmoil
✓B. Secession
C. Slavery issues D. States’ rights
The End of the Civil War Unit 10
Author
Background
History
Background
Author
Jay Winik
• Senior scholar of history and public policy in the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Warming up Questions/Activities
1. Please make a list of the names of people and places in the essay and put them into historical context.
2. Was Lee’s decision to surrender easy? Why or why not? 3. What was Lincoln’s vision for the end of the Civil War? 4. How do you interpret Lee’s and Grant’s different ways of
b. Confederate President c. Confederate General d. Great-granddaughter of Washington
A. Surrender B. Guerilla Warfare C. Not Known
Warming up Objectives
✓True or False?
4. The North and the South were much different in its people,
✓ customs and way of life. True or False?
5. Neither side was really prepared for war. The North had a
Lee raised the dreaded concept of surrender, and he said, “What will the country think?” (para.4) And Wise looked over at Lee, and he said, “Country? My God, man, you are the country to these men.” (para.5)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part I: Discussion
1. What is the common concern in the study of wars? 2. What is the author’s research topic/purpose? 3. Why does the author choose such a topic? 4. What kind of historic outlook does the author have?
3. According to the text, what contributed to such a unique ending?
Text Analysis Structure
I. Purpose and approach (paras. 1-2) II. The Appomattox Surrender (paras. 3-15)
Good citizens with honor and dignity
vs.
Rebels with rage in a continued civil war
2. What were Lee’s concerns?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part II (A): Discussion
Background
History
3. The North and the South quarreled in the Congress over whether the newly-acquired states in the west should be admitted into the union as free states or slave states.
Text Analysis
Theme
Questions for thinking
1. In what ways was the ending of the American Civil War unique in the human history of civil wars?
2. According to the author, was such an ending inevitable or not? Why or why not?
The End of the Civil War
Jay Winik
The End of the Civil War Unit 10
W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis R einforcement
The End of the Civil War Unit 10
1. Understand the structure of the essay. 2. Understand the uniqueness of the ending of the American
Civil War. 3. Explain the significance of such an ending to America. 4. Understand different historic perspectives.
inevitability vs. chance events 5. What kind of approach does the author adopt? 6. What should be the right approach toward history? 7. What is the academic writing like? (para. 1)
ending of the Civil War?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part II (A): Words & Expressions
be caked with The surfaces of this living area are always caked with oil stains. He didn’t look alarmed or frightened, but his forehead was caked with dirt and blood.
• Leading historian of the American Civil War