1. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

2. The Civil War: Union North vs Confederacy South

3. Confederate Union

4. CAUSE #1? Election of Lincoln
Southern States felt they were bullied by the North when he was elected

5. 1860
Election
Results

6. States’ Rights regarding taxation and slavery
Cause #2
States’ Rights regarding taxation and slavery

7. Cause 3:Abolitionism

8. Abolitionists
Frederick Douglas was the editor of an abolitionist newspaper.

9. John Brown
He and his sons brutally murdered 5 slave masters in Kansas. (1858)
Tried to incite a slave revolt

10. Cause 4: Slavery

11. Compromise of 1850

12. Cause 5: Sectionalism

13. Sectionalism at its worst!
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

14. The War Begins at Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

15. Fort Sumter

16. The first States secede: South Carolina

17. Advantages of the Union (north)?
Union had double the population
Double the railroads
5 times as many factories

18. Confederate (Rebel) advantages (South)
Confederates had the best generals
Defending is always easier than attacking
Farmers fight better than factory workers

19. First metal ships in world!

21. 1863

22. Emancipation Proclamation
It freed the slaves only in states that have seceded from the Union.
It did not free slaves in border states.
1863
Emancipation = freedom

23. Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862
Maryland
Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862
The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 16–18, 1862.
It was a confrontation between Union and Confederate forces under Generals George McClellan and Robert E. Lee. Federal armies brutalized the Confederacy; the combined casualties were more than twenty-three thousand.
The Union pushed Lee and his troops back to Antietam Creek, but the stubborn Confederate general counterattacked with all his troops. The two sides fought to a standstill, and both armies withdrew.
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25. More efficient and deadly

26. Gettysburg – Turning Point
Gettysburg is the largest battle in the history of the Western hemisphere.
Over 100,000 people died in 3 days.
It was the last time the South invaded the North.

27. Gettysburg Address
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- 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.
Abe Lincoln

29. Turning Point: Vicksburg
Union General Ulysses S. Grant launched massive assaults on Vicksburg and terrorized the inhabitants.
Federal troops pushed Confederate forces back as the size of the Union forces continued to increase.
Confederate General John Pemberton surrendered to Grant on July 3, 1863.

30. Confederate Dead

32. Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.

33. After four bloody years of civil war,
the South was defeated.
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34. Civil War ended when Lee surrendered to Grant at APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

35. Lincoln is assassinated

36. Quiz 1. When was the Civil War? 2. What was 1 cause of the CW?
3. What was another cause of CW?
4. Who was President during CW?