The Civil War
Causes of the Civil War The tariff on imported goods from Europe helped the North’s economy but hurt the South. States’ Rights (nullification) Slavery The Election of 1860 – Lincoln was elected without any Southern electoral votes
Secession The act of withdrawing from a country
Northern Advantages More railroads More factories More population More large cities
Southern Advantages Fighting on home soil The best generals – trained at military schools in the South
Abraham Lincoln 16 th President. Held the Union together during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee Confederate General
Fort Sumter Federal fortress in South Carolina. Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired when Confederates attacked
Antietam A creek near Sharpsburg Maryland Battle lasted from dawn to dusk 23,000 casualties No decisive victory for either side Lee escapes back into Virginia Lincoln relieves McClellan of his command War continues for 2 more years
Battle of Gettysburg July 1863 3 day battle in Pennsylvania 28,000 Confederate casualties ended Southern hopes of winning the war
Gettysburg Address Speech delivered by Lincoln in a ceremony to dedicate the field as a cemetery for the Union dead of the battle
Gettysburg Address “ 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....
Gettysburg Address ( continued)... 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.”
Appomattox Court House Village in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the war on April 9, 1865