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Index Pages for Today: Big Picture: Examples of Lincolns Illegal Presidencies Legacies of the Civil War Minorities: 54th Massachusetts Brigade (African American unit in the Army, 1st black unit) Historical Period: 7. Civil War Period (1861-1865) War: Political Party: Constitutional Union Party (1860) ch. 19 (incase you forgot) Union Party (Republicans + War Democrats) 1864 Boats Ironclads – Monitor and Merrimack Name Date Imp People Imp Battles End Significance American Civil War 1861-1865 Lee, Grant, Sherman, Jackson, Davis, Lincoln Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Sumter, Bull Run Appomattox Court House End of Slavery, Begins Reconstruction, 13th and 14th amendments
People of the Civil War (1861-1865) Army of Northern Virginia (Confederacy) Robert E Lee** Stonewall Jackson** George Pickett Army of the Potomac (Union) Winfield Scott Until Bull Run George McClellan Until Antietam William Tecumseh Sherman Hooker, Meade, Burnside David Farragut (Admiral) Ulysses S. Grant** FIRST TWO YEARS LAST TWO YEARS
William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman used a Scorched Earth Policy when it came to the south Burned all the barns and homes of people that would fight back Stole food and livestock from the peaceful farmers Strategy was used to cripple the Southern Economy. Consisted of Total War- Fighting Everywhere.
Battles 1861 April- Fort Sumter (SC) July- Bull Run/ Manassas Lincoln Calls up troops after and NC Secedes South Wins July- Bull Run/ Manassas The Great Skedaddle (union retreat)
Battles: 1862 March- Battle at Sea: Monitor and Merrimack (ironclads) North Takes New Orleans (draw) June: Battle of Seven Days (Peninsula Campaign) McClellan Retreats South Wins August: Second Battle of Bull Run Lee Decides to Attack the North
Battle: Antietam (Maryland) September 1862 Bloodiest day in American History Over 10,000 dead McCelellan fired because he didn’t follow lee into battle Lincoln needed a win to pass the Emancipation Proclamation Win for the North
Battles 1863 April- Chancellorsville (VA) July-1-4 Gettysburg PA **Stonewall Jackson is killed by friendly fire Lee: “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right” South wins July-1-4 Gettysburg PA AS far North as Lee gets Pickett’s charge he wants to capture the hill TURNING POINT OF THE WAR
The Aftermath (Gettysburg) Grant wins in Vicksburg Mississippi Opens up the Mississippi River to the North (part of the Anaconda Plan) July 4th 1863 – Vicksburg Surrenders
Gettysburg Address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ
1864- March to the Sea Grant is appointed commander and orders Sherman's “March to the sea” March to the Sea: Chattanooga TN Savannah Raleigh “Total War” 60 mile wide swath through the South, everything destroyed in his path Burned Atlanta to the ground, November 1864 Makes it to NC in 1865 Extremely harsh to South Carolina
1865- Battle at Hampton Roads Grant takes Richmond in April Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse Lincoln Assassinated 5 days later.
Strategy for the Union Suffocate the South with a Blockade Liberate the slaves Creates economic crisis Cut the Confederacy in half (Anaconda Plan) Chop the Confederacy in pieces by sending troops through the Carolina’s and Georgia (Sherman’s March) Decapitate the Confederacy by taking Richmond Fight Everywhere (Total War)
Legacies of the Civil War Death to more than 600,000 People and damage of more than 15 million A new Class of Millionaires Betrayal of Blacks by Whites- Freed slaves thought they would be instantly better and given land. Forced to rent land and remained in poverty South Poor and bitter – Lost 2 billion worth of slaves New Opportunities for Woman – Before 1 in 4 woman working, After 1 in 3 Victory of Industrialization over agriculture.