Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 13

Document Links:

Document 13.1 JOHN BEAUCHAMP JONES, The Richmond Bread Riot (1866)

Document 13.2 Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)

Document 13.3 CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM, The Civil War in America (1863)

Document 13.4 Calls for Peace in North Carolina (1863)

Document 13.5 ELLA GERTRUDE CLANTON THOMAS, Diary (1864)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 13

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: How did the realities of the Civil War affect the lives of Northerners and Southerners and shape the form and content of both groups’ protests against wartime events and policies?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 13.16

1. Which of the sources provide specific evidence about wartime dissent or protest that expressed some Americans’ resentment about fighting a war to free slaves? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.1: John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collectedby the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.3: Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.4: Calls for Peace in North Carolina
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.5: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary
Correct: Document 13.2: Mrs. Statts discusses the violence she experienced during the draft riots in New York City, which resulted in part from white men’s resentment over the role of slavery in the Civil War. Document 13.3: Vallandigham expresses opposition to the Civil War and its abolitionist objective.
Incorrect: Document 13.1: Jones describes a riot that took place in Richmond over the issue of food shortages. Document 13.4: The call for peace proclaims North Carolinians’ willingness to keep fighting the war if that is necessary to protect slavery. Document 13.5: Clanton expresses disillusionment over the course of the Civil War, but not slavery’s place in the war.

Question 13.17

2. Which of these documents provides specific evidence about wartime dissent or protest that expressed some Americans’ anger over the Civil War’s impact on the economy? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.1: John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collected by theCommittee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.3: Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.4: Calls for Peace in North Carolina
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.5: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary
Correct: Document 13.1: Jones describes Richmond’s bread riots in which women and children protested high prices and food shortages. Document 13.3: Vallandigham expresses his opposition to the war’s costs in the North.
Incorrect: Document 13.2: Mrs. Statts describes violence she endured during the draft riots, which were not economic protests. Document 13.4: The Calls for Peace do not express opposition to the war because of its impact on the South’s economy. Document 13.5: Thomas’s disillusionment with the war did not originate with complaints about the economy.

Question 13.18

3. Which of the following documents provides specific evidence about wartime dissent or protest that expressed some Americans’ dissatisfactions about conscription policies and their impact on the population? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 13.1: John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collectedby the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.3: Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.4: Calls for Peace in North Carolina
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 13.5: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary
Correct: Document 13.2: Statts describes draft riots that resulted from New Yorkers’ unhappiness over conscription policies. Document 13.3: Vallandigham argues that the Civil War had caused tremendous mortality among northern men who joined the military. Document 13.4: The Calls for Peace express North Carolinians’ unhappiness over the Confederacy’s failure to praise its troops and dissatisfaction about its excessive reliance on North Carolinian soldiers. Document 13.5: Thomas expresses opposition to Jefferson Davis’s proposal to begin drafting slaves to fight for the Confederacy.
Incorrect: Document 13.1: Jones describes a riot that expressed opposition to high food prices and food shortages.

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