Transcript The American Civil War and Reconstruction 1861

The American Civil War and Reconstruction
1861-1865(up to 1877)
North vs South
Free vs Slave
Union vs Confederacy
Blues vs Grays (Yankees
vs Johnny Rebs
Democracy vs Slavocracy
The Northern States – Union
• 23 states - California, Connecticut, Delaware (S),
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (S), Maine,
Maryland (S), Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri (S), New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont,
and Wisconsin. During the war, Nevada and West
Virginia joined as new states of the Union.
Tennessee and Louisiana were returned to Union
military control early in the war.
• The territories of Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington fought
on the Union side.
The Old South - Confederacy
• Original 7
- South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. (Feb.4 , 1861)
• Then 11 - Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee joined
a few months later.
• "I think that the North fought that war with one
hand behind its back...If there had been more
Southern victories, and a lot more, the North
simply would have brought that other hand out
from behind its back. I don't think the South ever
had a chance to win that War.“ Proof?????
Tale of the Tape
• 22 million ( 400,000
slaves)
• 90% production
• 97% firearms
• 35,000km of rail(71%)
• 2.1 million troops
• 30% exports
• 9 million (3.5 million
slaves)
• 10% production
• 3% firearms
• 8,000km of rail(29%)
• 1 million troops
• 70% exports
Two Presidents – only once
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
Jefferson Davis 1861-1865
*Both had Kentucky
blood
*Service in US Gov’t
*Service in the
military during
Jackson’s
Presidency
Age: 52
Age: 53
Greatest President: WHY?
Failure as a president:WHY?
Assassinated April 15, 1865
Retired Life
A Beginning and An End –
April 12,1861 and April 9,1865
•The attack
on Fort
Sumter in
Charleston
Bay, South
Carolina.
•Led by
P.G.T.
Beauregard
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Robert E.
Lee &
Ulysses
S. Grant
A True Industrial War
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Over 10,000 military engagements took place during the war, 40% of
them in Virginia and Tennessee.
Slavery for the Confederacy's 3.5 million blacks effectively ended
when Union armies arrived.
The war produced about 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the population),
including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease.
Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30
percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40.
The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free
blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army - 190,000
volunteered.
European immigrants joined the Union Army in large numbers,
including 177,000 born in Germany and 144,000 born in Ireland.
• 56,000 soldiers died in prisons during the Civil War.
"tell my mother I died for my country“… "Our country owed all her
troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his
punishment.“ April 26
"Sic semper tyrannis!” (Thus always to tyrants)
John Wilkes Booth