1. The Events of the Civil War

2. Think About
What were the strengths and weaknesses of each side?
What were the effects of war on each region’s economy?

4. The North
Advantages:
More people
Strong navy
Controlled most of the navy warships
More factories/railroads
Controlled the national treasury
Still received money from tariffs

5. The South
Advantages
Large number of trained military officers
Disadvantages:
less people
One railroad line
No money

6. Politics in the North
Lincoln wanted to preserve the union, NOT ABOLISH SLAVERY
1862 –Congress passes law for a draft
Lincoln suspends HABEAS CORPUS
Your right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial

7. THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
On 23d the President instructed the Marshal for the District of Columbia not to serve writs on the Provost Marshal, but return them to the Court with the explanation that the President has, for the present, suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in cases relating to the military for reasons of public necessity.

8. Politics in the South
Confederate Constitution stressed STATES RIGHTS
=power of central government is weak

9. Early Stages of the War Union hoped for a quick victory
= attacked Confederate forces at BULL RUN
=Confederate forces led by “Stonewall” Jackson
= union retreats
=north needs a large, well trained army

12. The Naval War
Lincoln wants to blockade all Confederate ports
By spring of 1862, all ports (except 3) are blocked
Union navy captures New Orleans
Submarines?

18. Antietam
Most battles took place in the south
Bloodiest one-day battle in all of American History
Lee is defeated

22. The Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Lincoln issues document that frees all slaves
CHANGED THE PURPOSE OF THE WAR FROM PRESERVING THE UNION TO ENDING SLAVERY

25. Life During the War
South’s economy failing
Food shortages
Riots
Poor morale

26. North doing well
Industry growing = supplied troops well
Innovation in crop production = plenty of food

27. Women during the war
On both sides women:
Worked in factories
Ran farms and businesses
Became nurses
Clara Barton and other women nursed men hurt on the battlefield

29. First African American regiment organized in the north
54th Massachusetts
Emancipation Proclamation permitted African Americans to enlist in army
First African American regiment organized in the north

34. Turning Point
The union wanted to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi
General Grant succeeded and the union victory cut the south in two

35. Gettysburg
Lee kept union troops away from the Confederate capital.
Lee decided to launch a northern invasion
Armies met in Gettysburg
Union troops overwhelmed confederates
More than 1/3 of confederate army died
= from this point on, Confederacy remains on the defensive

42. The War Ends
May-June 1864
Grant attacks Lee’s forces in Virginia
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman marches toward Atlanta
=sets fire to the city/destroys everything
=his army cut a path of destruction that reached Georgia’s coast and north into SC
= total war

44. The South Surrenders
1864 – Lincoln re-elected
1865 –13th Amendment
Banned slavery in the United States

45. Lee is surrounded and outnumbered
Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

48. Lincoln Assassinated!
Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre
April 14, 1865

51. Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences
Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960 (100 years apart)
Both men were deeply involved in civil rights for African-Americans
Both men were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives
Each wife had lost a child while living at the White House

52. Both men were killed by a bullet that entered the head from behind
Lincoln was killed in Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy was killed while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company
Both men were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson who were southern Democrats and former senators

53. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908 (100 years apart)
The first name of Lincoln’s private secretary was John. The last name of Kennedy’s private secretary was Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth was born in Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939

54. Both assassins were southerners who held extremist views
Both assassins were murdered before they could be brought to trial
Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre

55. LINCOLN and KENNEDY each has 7 letters
ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON each has 13 letters
JOHN WILKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD each has 15 letters

56. A Lincoln staffer, Miss. Kennedy, told him not to go to the theatre
A Lincoln staffer, Miss. Kennedy, told him not to go to the theatre. A Kennedy staffer, Miss. Lincoln, told him not to go to Dallas.