1. Ch. 3: Civil War & Reconstruction 3.1: The Civil War Begins
What is President Lincoln’s number one reason for wanting to win this war?

3. 3.1: The Civil War Begins
Essential Question: What advantages and disadvantages did the North and the South have at the start of the Civil War?

4. Presidential election of 1860! (Republican)

5. 1. Lincoln win presidential election of 1860!
North
South

6. 2. Lincoln’s feelings towards slavery…
Felt it was morally wrong
Willing to accept it where it already existed…
Does not want it to expand in the new territories (west)

7. B. How does the South respond to election?
Secession!
Key issue: self-determination - that they states will not have the right to govern themselves;
Southern states elect their president, Jefferson Davis, and write their own constitution = Confederate States of America

8. C. Strengths… South North
1. Great Generals and leaders
a. Stonewall Jackson
b. Robert E. Lee
2. Motivated soldiers
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High population/soldiers
Factories
Food production
Railroad system
Banking system/ Legal Tender Act/ and bonds

9. D. and Strategies/Goals North South
Offensive war
Blockade
Anaconda plan: split confederacy at the Mississippi
Capture capital of Confederacy: Richmond, Virginia
Defensive
war of attrition
Attack only when convenient
Capture capital of Washington, D.C.

11. Which four southern states did not secede?

12. Fighting Begins April 1861
Ft. Sumter captured by the South

13. Ft. Sumter after Union surrender

14. F. Political changes to support the war
Conscription
Draft
Suspend writ of habeas corpus
suspects can be imprisoned indefinitely without a trial or charges filed against him
In the name of “National security”