1. The American Civil War

2. The Civil War
Civil War is a war between the people living in the same country
For the United States the war was between people living in the South and people living in the North
North vs South
The Union vs The Confederacy States of America
Took place from

3. The Union vs Confederate States of America

4. Three Stages (parts) of the American Civil War
1. Growing unrest
The two sides begin to not like each other
2. The War
Fighting takes places
Many battles
3. Reconstruction
Reforming the United States
Putting the country back together

5. Growing Unrest Time period before Civil War
The North and South were having a hard time getting along
The North and the South disagreed with each other
Divided on many issues
Could not agree on many things

6. Events that the North and the South to not like each other
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Dred Scott Decision
John Brown’s Raid
The Election of Abraham Lincoln

7. The War
The Southern States seceded (left the United States of America)
Named their new country the Confederate States of America

8. The South fired upon (shot) at the Union fort called Fort Sumter in South Carolina
This event started the war
Artist panting of firing on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter today – it is a museum

9. Fought in two theaters (parts of the country)
The East and the West
Most fighting done in the East
During the first two years the union was most successful in the West
Western
Eastern

10. Fought between the two armies
The Army of the Potomac was the name for the Northern Army
The Army of Virginia was the name for the Southern Army
Blue uniforms
Grey uniforms

11. Billy Yank Northern Soldier
The Soldiers
Billy Yank Northern Soldier
Johnny Reb
Southern Soldier

12. Strengths and Weaknesses
North
South
Strengths
More factories
More people
Larger extensive Railroad system
Greater food production
First rate generals – at beginning of the war
Highly motivated soldiers fighting for their way of life
Fighting on home grounds
Shenandoah Valley
Weakness
Fighting on “foreign” soil
Not the best generals – at first
Little to no industry
Small population
Limited railroad system
Lacking in food production

13. Important Battles 1. Battle of Manassas 2. Battle of Antietam
3. Battle of Gettysburg
4. Battle of Vicksburg
Sherman’s
March
to the Sea
5. Appomattox Court House

14. Battle of Manassas/Bull Run
First battle in the Civil War
Called the Picnic Basket Battle

15. Antietam Battle fought in Maryland in 1862
Bloodiest battle in the Civil War
Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Free all slaves living in states still in rebellion against the Union
Gave the Union its
second goal – free the
slaves

16. Gettysburg Three day battle in Pennsylvania in 1863
Turning point of the war
The North is going to start to win the war

17. Vicksburg Union defeats the Confederacy
Union controls Mississippi River
South is cut into two parts

18. Sherman’s March to the Sea
Union General Sherman walked his men from Atlanta Georgia to Savannah Georgia
Destroyed everything the Confederate Army could use to fight the war

19. Appomattox Court House
Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant

20. Strategy for Fighting the War
North
Goal: Keep the country together
Capture the city of Richmond, Virginia (South’s capital)
Anaconda Plan
Blockade the Southern coast – the South would not be able to get weapons and supplies it needed to fight the war
Divide the South into two parts by control the Mississippi River. This way the South would be spilt in two and would not be able to use the river to move supplies
Invade the South – Union troops would invade the South to force them to surrender

21. I am so tired. I am worn down from this war.
South
Goal: Win their independence
War of Attrition (wear down the North)
Make the war last as long as possible
Capture the Washington DC
Get help from foreign nations
I am so tired. I am worn down from this war.

22. Reconstruction
Now that the war is over how is the country going to be put back together?
How are the Southern states going to rejoin the United States of America?
What was going to happened to the slaves who were now free?

23. Important People

24. President Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States of America during the Civil War
Great Leader

25. General Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Union Army during the Civil War
Army of the Potomac

26. General Robert E Lee
General of the Army of Virginia
Hero in the South

27. William T Sherman Union General Lead the “March to the Sea”
Total Destruction

28. John Wilkes Booth Famous actor Killed Abraham Lincoln after the war
At Fords Theater