Transcript The Civil War

The Civil War
1861-1865
[Do Not Write]
AIMs for Today:
1. What is some basic terminology relating
to the Civil War?
2. To gain a basic understanding of what
happened during the War (think of
WWWWWH)
3. To gain some understanding of New
York’s specific role during the Civil War
Basic Overview of the “War
Between the States” [Read aloud
together]
 In the election of 1860, a new party, the
Republican Party, chooses a lawyer from a small
town in Illinois to be its candidate for president.
His name is ________________.
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The Republicans, who are trying to prevent
slavery from spreading to the new states, win
the election by a very few votes.
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The South is upset, as they remember
Lincoln saying, “I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave and
half free.”
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Lincoln’s major objective is to save the
Union, not to either save or destroy
slavery.
[any mistakes?]
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Southern states secede from the Union
and form there own government—the
Confederate States of America.
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Jefferson Davis becomes president of the
Confederacy.
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The Civil War begins on April 12, 1861 at
Fort Sumter, in South Carolina.
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Ulysses S. Grant (Union)
and Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) are the
two most important generals during the
bloody war.
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These events were to set the stage for the
bloodiest and saddest war in American history.
In a conflict that combined elements of old
fashioned fighting with features of the new
Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans would
lose their lives fighting for constitutional
principle, sectional differences, economic selfinterest, and moral righteousness.
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On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered
to General Grant. After so much suffering,
the Civil War ended. Slaves soon became
free and the United States remained one
nation.
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But African Americans encountered many
more problems later during
Reconstruction…
Five Generations of a Family on Smith’s Plantation
in Beaufort, South Carolina (1862)
Portrait of Boy Soldier