Transcript Civil War PPT

1861–1865
Leading up to the War
• Issue over states rights versus
the rights of the federal
government
• Legislative Branch
– Senate- 2 from each state
– House of Rep- Based on
Population. Slavery-3/5ths
• Tariffs/Taxes that unfairly
impacted the South
– Tariff: Tax on imports
• Sales of American made
goods/ European goods
• SLAVERY
Industrial
Agricultural
Leading up to the War
• 1818 Missouri
Compromise- Missouri is
slave and Maine is free
• Mexican-American War
gave the US much more
land
• Compromise of 1850California is free, Texas
slave, New Mexico & Utah
could choose
– Also strengthened the
Fugitive Slave Act
– This angered
Abolitionists
Abraham Lincoln
• Was a moderate in his
opposition to slavery
• Didn’t want slavery to
expand but didn’t want
slave states to change
• His election helped to
trigger secession
• Secession: is the act of
withdrawing from an
organization, union, or
especially a political
entity.
• 7 states did so just before
inauguration
“A house divided against
itself cannot stand!"
CIVIL WAR
• The Civil War
began when
Confederate
General
Beauregard
opened fire
upon Fort
Sumter in
Charleston,
South Carolina
on April 12,
1861
CIVIL WAR
• US conceived what
was known as the
Anaconda Plan
• Union blockade of
the main ports would
weaken the
Confederate
economy
The Playaz
UNION
• General Grant
• General Sherman
CONFEDERATE
• General Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson
• General Lee
Famous Battles
• 1st Battle of Bull Run
– Stonewall stands tall
against Union troops
• 2nd Battle of Bull Run
– South wins again and cross
the Potomac River
• Antietam
– Bloodiest single day in US
military History
– This halted Lee’s Armies
– 23,000 casualties
– McClellan was to cautious
and didn’t follow though
Famous Battles
• Battle of Gettysburg
– Turning point in the
war
– 46,000 and 51,000
Americans
casualties in the
three-day
• Village of
Appomattox Court
House
– Grant and Lee
End of War
• Slavery effectively ended in the
U.S. in the spring of 1865 when
the Confederate armies
surrendered. All slaves in the
Confederacy were freed by the
Emancipation Proclamation
• 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the
population)
• More died in this war then all
other US wars combined
• European immigrants joined the
Union Army in large numbers,
including 177,000 Germans and
144,000 Irish
WWI
WWII
Vietnam
Korean
Kuwait
Iraq
Abraham Lincoln
• Reconstruction
– 13th,14th,15th
Amendments
– Rebuilding the South
• April 14, 1865 Lincoln is
killed by John Wilkes
Booth
• Andrew Johnson
becomes Pres