The Civil War

How could this poster be use used to recruit new soldiers?

Election of Lincoln (1860) Southern states seceded Feared that Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery

Fort Sumter Opening confrontation of the Civil War History channel

Battle of Bull Run 30,000 Union troops met a large Confederate force First major battle of the Civil War. Both sides suffered considerable dead and wounded The Union army eventually retreated

Battle of Antietam Bloodiest single day of the war 24,000 men killed or wounded Confederate troops of Robert E. Lee were forced to withdraw.

Emancipation Proclamation Issued after the Battle of Antietam

Emancipation Proclamation Freed those slaves located in “rebelling” states (seceded Southern states) Made the destruction of slavery a Northern war aim Discouraged any interference of foreign governments Allowed for the enlistment of African American soldiers in the Union army

Battle of Gettysburg General Meade's forces defeated General Lee and his Confederate troops This was a major turning point of the war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndmcgAsA1aI Have you ever heard this before?  Which parts stuck to you the most?  When do you think this speech was originally given? For what reason do you think this was given​?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Gettysburg Address Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal” and that was ruled by a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Gettysburg Address Lincoln believed America was “one nation,” not a collection of sovereign states. Southerners believed that states had freely joined the union and could freely leave. -Complete your Own Version

Appomatox Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

Common Soldiers Hand-to-hand combat. Primary sources: War time diaries and letters After the war, soldiers returned home to destroyed property and poverty. Soldiers on both sides had permanent disabilities.

Women Managed homes and families with scarce resources Often faced poverty and hunger Assumed new roles in agriculture, nursing, and in war industries

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States during the Civil War Insisted that the union be held together, by force, if necessary

Jefferson Davis U.S. Senator who became president of the Confederate States of America

Ulysses S. Grant Union military commander Won several union victories over the South after other union commanders failed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCZLae7kuTI

Robert E. Lee Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia Opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should not be held together by force Urged Southerners to accept defeat after the Appomatox surrender instead of continue fighting

Frederick Douglass Former slave turned abolitionist Urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to join the Union army Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Reconstruction Should the government punish or forgive the south?