The Civil War 1861-1865
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Pre-Civil War:
Decade of Crisis
1850-1860
Institution of Slavery
Eli
Whitney - Cotton Gin
Nat Turner’s Revolt 1831
Missouri Compromise 1820
–36 degrees 30 minutes
Compromise of 1850
California
(49ers) apply to
become a FREE state
–Popular Sovereignty
South
Rejects
Compromise proposed by
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,
Stephen Douglas
They Propose:
Allow
California in as free state
(Northern Victory)
Create New Mexico and Utah
territories without restrictions about
slavery
Stricter fugitive slave law (Southern
Victory...hurt Underground RR)
Results of Compromise
of 1850
4 Southern States threaten
to secede
North upset about fugitive
slave law
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe 1852
Dramatic
account of a
slave fighting
for freedom
Result...more people
wanting to abolish slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
(1854)
Background (RR, etc)
Stephen Douglas, Senator (ILL)
He Proposes:
– Create Kansas and Nebraska
Territories
– Scrap the Missouri Compromise
(36 degrees 30 minutes). Instead,
allow Popular Sovereignty
Results of the K-N Act
Stephen
Douglas -very ambitious
Birth of the new Republican
Party
Helped unify the North
Bleeding Kansas
"Bleeding Kansas"miniature Civil War 1855-57
Election
War
–Free Soil
Group...John
Brown
Dred Scott
Decision...1857
Background
Supreme
Court (Chief Justice
Roger Taney) decides:
– Slaves = 3/5ths of a person, so NO
RIGHT to sue
– Slave=Property
– Congress cannot restrict property
within TERRITORIES.
Results of Dred Scott
Ruling:
Wipes out:
–Kansas-Nebraska Act
–Idea of Popular Sovereignty
Huge
Southern Victory
Outrages & Unifies Republicans
Other Important Events
of the Late 1850’s
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
John Brown’s
Raid...attack US
Arsenal at Harpers
Ferry, Virginia
Election of 1860
4
Political Parties!
Republicans
Northern
Party
RESTRICT
slavery, not
abolish it
Abraham Lincoln
from ILL
Northern Democrats
Demos
split
Northern Democrats supported
Stephen Douglas and popular
sovereignty
Southern Democrats
More
radical, want slavery
legal everywhere
Selected John Breckinridge
(Tenn), current VP under
Buchanan
Constitutional Union Party
Wanted
a compromise
over slavery
Selected John Bell
(Tenn)
Popular Vote Totals
40
30
20
10
0
Pop.
%
Bell
Breckenridge
Douglas
Lincoln
Lincoln
Douglas
Breckenridge
Bell
Lincoln wins with only 40% of
Popular Vote
What should the
Southern States do?
What options do they
have?
Secession
President
James
Buchanan- “Lame Duck”
December 1860 - South
Carolina Secedes
What should Buchanan
do???
Is secession irrational???
Confederate States
of America
By
Feb, 1861, most of the South is
gone
Elect Jefferson Davis
(Mississippi) as President
Select Richmond (Virginia)
as Capitol
Flag (11 states, yet 13 stars)
Strengths and Weaknesses
North
–(Union, Blue, Yankees)
South
–(Confederacy, Gray,
Rebels)
Border States
The Battles Begin
Fort
Sumter (Charleston, S. C.)
1st Bull Run
– “Stonewall” Jackson
Naval
Warfare
Union has Navy
– Ironclad Warship (forerunner to
battleships) Monitor v Merrimack
(Virginia) March 1862
War
in
the
West
Shiloh (Tenn) April 1862
New
Orleans and the Mississippi
River
Battle and Seige of Vicksburg (Miss)
– Heavily fortified city with RR
– 47 day seige of city
– Major turing point of war
– Union splits south & gets River
– Grant v. Pemberton
War in the East
Robert
E. Lee, Confederate General
Battle of Antietam (Maryland)
–Sept 1862 - George McClellan
Lincoln changes War Emancipation Proclamation
War in the East (continued)
Union Commanders-"Revolving Door"
–Fredricksburg (VA) Dec, 1862 Ambrose Burnside
–Chancellorsville (VA) Spring
1863 - Joe Hooker
–Gettysburg (Penn) July 1863 George Meade
Gettysburg
Lee
invades North
July 3 - "Pickett's Charge"
(Gen.George Pickett, confederate)
Great Union Victory & Major
turning point of War
Meade fails to chase Lee
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln)
East (continued)
“Revolving
Door” - (cont)
U.S. Grant in charge
(1864-)
William Tecumseh
Sherman's "March to the
Sea" ... (Total War) Atlanta to Savannah
The Ending
Appomattox
Courthouse (April 9,
1865) Lee surrenders
Factors of War
First American
“Draft”
War’s Deadly Cost
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
Civil War
WW 1
WW 2
Dead
Lincoln's Assassination
April
14, 1865...Fords Theatre
"American Cousin" play
John Wilkes Booth
Democrat Andrew Johnson
will lead Reconstruction
efforts