1. The Civil War

2. Discovering America’s fight with itself.
Unit Goals
Discovering America’s fight with itself.
Why did they fight?
What came out of it?

3. What is a Civil War?
A war between people of the same country.

4. When did our Civil War take place?

5. Who Fought?
The North - The Union
VS.
The South - The Confederacy

6. Why did they want to fight?
The North – determined to preserve the Union.
The South – wanted to gain their independence from the Union.

7. What were some cause of the Civil War?
Loss of Power
Slavery

8. The Union States
Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

9. Confederate States
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

10. Union Leader
Abraham Lincoln

11. Confederacy Leader
Jefferson Davis

12. Union General
Ulysses S. Grant

13. Confederacy General
Robert E. Lee

14. The North’s Strengths Industry/Factories Supplies
Manufacturing war supplies
Transportation
Population

15. Immigrants
Conscription Act – first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history
The act called for registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45, including aliens with the intention of becoming citizens, by April 1. Exemptions from the draft could be bought for $300 or by finding a substitute draftee. This clause led to bloody draft riots in New York City, where protesters were outraged that exemptions were effectively granted only to the wealthiest U.S. citizens.

16. The South's Strengths Military Academies Soldiers
Knowledge of the land
Farms

17. The North’s Disadvantages
Unskilled soldiers
Did not know the land

18. The South’s Disadvantages
Supply shortage
Inadequate transportation
Less railroad tracks
No industry to produce
war necessities

19. Infantry Tactics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYg3v9lUuNA Cannons
Balls
Shell
Canister
Guns
Muskets
Rifle
Bayonet
High ground

20. South’s Plan for Victory
War of Attrition
They planned to drag the war out as long as possible
Hoped the North would become tired, and quit.

21. North’s Plan for Victory
Anaconda Plan
Shut down the South from receiving goods
Naval brigade
Along the coast line and Mississippi river
Starve out the enemy and inflict great damage

22. Sherman’s March to the sea
General Sherman was set on a path of destruction through the South
Total War

25. New to war
First war the photography was available, and used.

26. Horror of war was now real.

27. Letter from a soldier B A