1. The Civil War in Pictures

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What does this picture represent? What happened? Why is this event significant?

3. JOHN BROWN’S RAID ON HARPERS FERRY
John Brown 1.Wanted to start an uprising and arm local slaves 2.Planned to kill any southerners that got in the way 3.After two years of trying to build an army he had only 20 men The Raid 1.Took place at Harper’s Ferry in October Men were sent into the country side to recruit slaves – no one joined 3.Locals attacked – Brown was hurt eight of Brown’s men were killed Aftermath 1.Federal Troops led by Col. Robert E. Lee arrived the next day 2.John Brown was arrested, convicted and hanged Inspired & outraged northern abolitionists; infuriated and frightened southerners – SLAVE LAWS TIGHTENED

4. What does this map represent. What happened during this time
What does this map represent? What happened during this time? Why was it important?

5. Compromise of 1850
As the “great compromiser” Henry Clay steps in and proposes:
CA enters as free state
Rest of MX Cession be a Federal territory known and NM and pop sov is used to determine slavery
Resolves conflict between TX and NM
End slave trade in WA DC (not slavery)
Fugitive Slave Law
Continues conflict of slavery vs. free states in the nation

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What does this picture represent? What happened during the event? Why was it important?

7. Merrimac vs. The Monitor (22.6)
March 1862
Merrimac (aka “The Virginia”)
Old Union ship left in VA
Confederates cover with iron plates and add power
Renamed the Virginia
Monitor - Union iron-clad navy vessel built in less than 100 days
The battle:
Merrimac enters Chesapeake Bay to attack Union navy.
Demolishes Union wooden ships.
Next day, Union responds with The Monitor
After hours of fighting, neither side can claim victory.
Union begins using “Iron-clads” in their effort to win the MS River and New Orleans in 1862.
Importance: Rise of the iron-clad ships – navy technology will never be the same

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9. Anaconda Plan General W. Scott’s plan
Step 1: block the South’s ports and cut off it’s trade;
Step 2: divide CSA by controlling the MS River
Step 3: take Richmond (CSA capital)
By 1862 = no chance of Great Britain as a southern ally; Union blockades cut off resources
Admiral Farragut (U) = takes New Orleans; Grant (U) takes KY & TN

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What does this picture represent? What happened during the event? Why was it important?

11. Siege of Vicksburg (22.6) May 1863
North = gained control of much of the MS River, but could not get total control without winning Vicksburg, MS
Farragut already secured the MS River via New Orleans
Grant used gunboats for 6 weeks to shell the city from the river
army bombarded it from land
people of Vicksburg could not be protected
Vicksburg surrenders
Union controls all of the MS River

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13. Sherman’s March to the Sea
September through December 1864
Sherman v. South
Atlanta to Savannah, GA
Union controlled West of the MS and was closing in on Lee’s men in the Southeast. Union’s goal was to “damage [the South’s] war resources.”
Outcome:
Sherman’s men burned Atlanta
destroyed much of GA
went on to S.C. and N.C.
Importance: The Union siege of GA and then the Carolina’s set the stage for the Union to attack Richmond
(final stage of Anaconda plan)

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15. MA 54th commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
1000 AA soldiers
Congress agrees to begin paying AA soldiers the same as whites
Sent to Ft. Wagner, SC to fight
Suicide mission: fort never taken by Union
African American soldiers lauded for courage and honor in their sacrifice

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What does this picture represent? What happened at this time? Why was it important?

17. Lee’s surrender of Northern Virginia Army to Grant
9 mos. battling in Petersburg, VA
April - Union was ready to end the war
April 9, 1865: General Lee meets with General Grant to officially end the war in Appomattox Court House
A small town outside of Richmond
Wilmer McLean’s house
The terms of the agreement:
Confed troops could go home (along with their supplies) but there could be no more fighting
In a kind gesture, Grant supplied Lee’s hungry troops with much need food.
Creates a precedent of leniency and forgiveness cited by Lincoln to his cabinet; sets the tone of what Lincoln wanted to heal the nation