Congratulations Belthorne!

We were just notified that the quilts created by our design teams have been selected by New Orleans. Our hard work, attention to historic details and accuracy and amazing symbolic quilt pieces set us apart from the competition.

A representative from the NWAC will be here today (Friday, April 4) to officially announce this award.

To see individual quilt pieces, please click here--> Belthorne Quilt Pieces

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Deborah's Design Team










Jon's Design Team










Frank's Design Team

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fighting over kansas nebraska slave rights
picture of nebraska
picture of kansas
Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler
An 1856 cartoon depicts a giant free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic platform marked "Kansas", "Cuba" and "Central America". Franklin Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a slave down his throat.

This 1856 map shows slave states (grey), free states (red), and US territories (green) with Kansas in center (white).

The Anaconda Plan

The Anaconda Plan involved controlling the Mississippi River and blockading the ocean from the south so that they wouldn't be able to trade for resources. The man who thought it up's name was Winfield Scott.

Winfield Scott; Left

He first talked about his plan in a letter to General McClellan who then presented it to President Lincoln.

The letter read: It is the design of the Government to raise 25,000 additional regular troops, and 60,000 volunteers, for three years. ... We rely greatly on the sure operation of a complete blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports soon to commence. In connection with such blockade, we propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the ocean, with a cordon of posts at proper points ... the object being to clear out and keep open this great line of communication in connection with the strict blockade of the seaboard, so as to envelop the insurgent States and bring them to terms with less bloodshed than by any other plan.

General McClellan

The first implementation of this plan was a

blockade of the South on April 16, 1861; six days after the fall of Fort Sumpter.

This is an artist's rendition of a blockade ship.

The second part of the plan, (which was to capture the Mississippi) was accomplished gradually by the armies of Henry W. Halleck, Ulysses S. Grant, and Nathaniel P. Banks.

One reason that this plan was different from other army plans s that this one was designed to be as blood-free as possible.

This is a cool representation of the Anaconda Plan.

Kian's Artist's Statement

Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan proved to be a crucial part of the Civil War even though it wasn't the only thing that won it.

The big snake is an Anaconda. Anacondas constrict their pray and that it kind of what the North was doing to the South, thus the name the Anaconda Plan. The snake represents the blockades that the north put on the south.

The ships on either side of it are trying to trade with each other but they can't because of the blockade. They are the South and Europe.

The blue men in the North are the soldiers that didn't have to fight because of the plan.

On the right of the Mississippi River there is a brick wall. It represents how the Union gained control of the Mississippi and split the south i half.

On the right of the wall there is a box of goods and a bag of tobacco. They are trying to get to the other side of the river but they can't because of the wall. On the left of the river there is a gun and a cannon which are also trying to get across the river but can't because of the wall.

The reason that New Orleans is on the map is because it was a major port for the south.

Next to New Orleans there is a stack of boxes and a bag of cotton. This represents how, since they can't trade them, their resources are just piling up. 

The North is blue because that is the color that the Union wore and the south is grey because that was the color that the Confederates wore.

Thank you for reading my artist's statement.

Kian Dye, Frank's Design Team 

Art

This painting was done by Conrad Chapman. Conrad was born in Washington, DC in 1842. He died in Hampton, Virginia in 1910. He was 68 when he died.

This is Winslow Homer. He in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836. He died in Proutsneck, Maine in 1910. He was 74 when he died.
This is one of his paintings called " The Red Canoe "

This is William Walker. He was born in 1838 Charleston, South Carolina and he died in 1921 in the same location. He was 93 when he died.
This is one of his paintings called " Noon Day Pause In The Cotten Field "

This is Eastman Johnson. He was born in Lowell, Maine in 1824 and he died in New York New York in 1906. He was 82 when he died.

This is one of Eastman's paintings called The Little Solder.

Hutchinson Family Singers were a 19th-century American family singing group who sang about political causes in four-part harmony. The group formed in the wake of a string of successful tours by Austrian singing groups such as the Tyrolese Minstrels and when American newspapers were demanding the cultivation of native talent

Diseases

1837-38 was a huge smallpox epidemic. It started on a large boat and when it went into port the small towns quickly caught the deadly disease.
Out of every 1,000 men, 995 died of Typhoid fever. If you caught a small cold during the Civil war you had very high chances of it turning into pneumonia. Dysentery killed the most men, typhoid was second, and pneumonia was the third.



























1/2 of deaths from disease during the Civil war, was from solders that had diarrhea, and dysentery. In 1862 around 200,000 solders were found to be physically unfit, or had fallen ill.











3/5 Union solders died of disease, and 2/3 Confederates. Smallpox, along with Measles, Mumps, Typhoid, and Pneumonia were biggest, deadliest disease that killed solders.












Disease could easily start up, and when they did large numbers of solders would become ill. Medical camps had limited amounts of water, and poor education so they rarely sterilized their hands and equipment. In camps with a large population of young solders the disease would be easily caught by the solders because they'd never before been exposed to them.











Artist Statement-
Megan Beal

The black lumps that are smallpox bumps or tombstones are all over the quilt piece showing that so many solders died because of disease. Then randomly there are red bullet holes, to show that more people died of disease then of being shot. The medical sign in the middle represents that because of the wide spread diseases during the civil war our doctors are more educated and learn no longer from a book but actually go to school. The sign is more modern so it’s showing that doctor education evolved.

Thanks-
Eva D. & Megan B.
xoxo

buffalo soldiers

buffalo soldier in battle
ths is a comon man that is going to be recrooted as a buffalo soldier
a new group of sodiers are riding to the battle field to help win the war
this is a drawing of buffalo soldiers heading to battle
this is a old buffalo soldier badge from 1866-1944 the badge says WE CAN WE WILL and READY AND FORWARD
by Brandon and Joe in franks class

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in This 1856 map shows slave states (grey), free states (red), and US territories (green) with Kansas in center (white).
Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler
above An 1856 cartoon depicts a giant free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on theDemocratic platform marked "Kansas", "Cuba" and "Central America". Franklin Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a black slave down his throat

In the 1820s, genteel English-styled ballads were popular in urban areas. Many of the songwriters, however, were looking for something new, and were connected with the growing abolitionism movement, which sought to abolish slavery; these included most famously the Hutchinson Family Singers. The 1840s saw increased awareness of African American musical traditions, culminating in the publication of the first collection of African American songs, The Negro Singer's Own Book

Science in the 1800's by Claires C. and S.

This machine was designed to test electrostatic toys.
Josiah Willard Gibbs’s work in Thermodynamics helped to launch the area of Physical Chemistry.

Albert Michelson invented the interferometer, which he intended to help him disprove the existence of luminiferous ether. He did disprove its existence, but not until 1923, and not using his interferometer.
William Beaumont was a surgeon famous for his published work, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, which is considered by many to be the first complete study of digestion.
Asaph Hall was an Astronomer. He discovered two moons of Mars, Phobos, meaning fear, and Deimos, meaning terror.

Slave Narratives

Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass was a slave in. He escaped to freedom on September 3, 1836. After he escaped he became an Abolishonist. He gave lots of speeches at Massachusitts anti- slavery society. He also wrote books. His first autobiography was Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Fredrick Douglass was also the first black man to be invited into the white house to see the president.

Sojourner Truth

She was born into slavery around 1797. She was one of 3 children. She was bought and resold 4 times. John Dumont, her fourth master forced her to marry and older slave. They had 5 children named Diana, Elizabeth, Hannah, Peter and Sophia. After the emancipation was signed she escaped with infant Sophia. She didn't take her other children because they had to be a slave until their twenties.

When she got to freedom she became an abolitionist. She gave lots of speeches and published books. Her first book was published privately in 1850 by William Lloyd Garrison. It was called A Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. Her most famous speech was Ain't I A Woman. She delivered it in May 1851 at Ohio Woman's Rights Convention.

Solomon Bayley

No one knows when he was born or died because it wasn't recorded. In 1825 he wrote his autobiography called 'A Narrative of Some' Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley. Some of his writing tell the story of how he escaped and reunited with his wife. His master recaptured him and he was taken back. Solomon eventually was able to buy his way out of slavery. Shortly after he bought and freed his wife and children.


George Washington Carver wrote and documented many things about his life. He kept a diary as well and wrote in it frequently. He also wrote about all his inventions for peanuts which made him famous. I think everybody should think of him whenever they eat peanut butter. What many people don't know about him is that he was also a teacher and helped greatly in the extension of black schools. He also published more than 44 Tuskegee Station bulletins! George washington Carver is a great example of what a black people could accomplish in the 1800's (under the wright circumstances of course.)
Slave narratives were like a time capsule for that era... Without them we probably wouldn't have near the amount of knowledge about slavery in America. In fact we probably wouldn't even know people like Soujurn Truth and very very little about Fredrick Douglas. It's not just us that would have no idea what being a slave at that time was like. Slave owners would be clueless as well. Which means that without slave narratives to inform people, the civil war could have played out much more differently.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 By Georgia and Claire C.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1883, but the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the above picture) covers the same issue.

Charles Sumner was one of

the people who helped to inspire

the Civil Rights Act of 1875,
even thoght it wasn't passed until
after his death

Ulysses S. Grant was president when the Civil Rights act of 1875 was passed.

These are the pictures of the 16 African Americans who served in congress when the Civil rights act of 1875 was passed. Many of them gave speeches about the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

John Roy Lynch (born September 10, 1847; died November 2, 1939) was one of the first African American members of the House of representatives.