Transcript File - Miss Diaz`s Class

1861-1865
Part of the Union meant:
Bigger Population
22 million
Railroad system
Industry and Navy
Telegraph, Ulysses
All of them fighting
For the end to slavery
The Confederate rebels
Had excellent generals
Like Jackson and Lee
And familiarity
With the territory
Farmers fight mean
With the money from
Cotton economy
Fort Sumter
• April 12, 1861: 1st conflict
of the war, where the
South won
• It lasted 2 days and only 1
died, it was an accident
‘cause the cannon
backfired
• The North realized it was
not an easy fight.
• Each state would need to
choose a side
Picture Credit: http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/battles/images/sumteranim.gif
Lincoln’s Generals
Winfield
Joseph
Ulysses S.
Irwin
Scott
George
George
Hooker
Grant
McDowell
McClellan
Meade
Ambrose
George
Burnside
McClellan said, I Can Do It All!
Lincoln said that will be your downfall
The Confederate Generals
“Stonewall”
Nathan
Robert E.
Jackson
Bedford
Lee
George
Forrest
Jeb Stuart
Pickett
James
Longstreet
The North used a
unique
strategy.
Tried to choke out the
South and block all the
seas
The Anaconda Plan
Was to suffocate
the South by
blocking their
supplies and
forcing them
down
Quick QUiz
1. Name the 2 sides
2. What were 2
advantages of the
North? What were
2 advantages of
the South?
3. What was the
Anaconda Plan?
Bull Run
General McDowell vs. General Beauregard
2x
1st major battle and major brawl
Bull Run was fought twice, with
Jackson standing tall
Battle of Bull Run
(1st Manassas)
July, 1861
1st major battle and major
brawl
Bull Run was fought twice,
with Jackson standing tall
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
The Ironclads
Were BIG and BAD
The Monitor
The Battle of the Ironclads,
March, 1862
The Monitor vs.
the Merrimac
Battle of Shiloh – April 1862
Grant
Battle of Shiloh
The Union got
control
Johnston killed in
the midst of battle
Johnston
-killed in
battle
War in the East: 1861-1862
Antietam
In Maryland
A surprising
victory for
McClellan
In only 1 day
More than
25,000 fell
Bloodiest battle
it was like Hell
Battle of Antietam
September 1862
Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties
Battle of Vicksburg – July 1863
Ulysses S. Grant
Gen. Albert Johnson
Grant’s Most Important Battle
In Vicksburg, Mississippi
Grant sieged the city
Starved the people out
And claimed the victory
Sherman’s March
November 12, 1864
Sherman marched toward the
Atlantic shore
Destroyed all cities in his path
Georgia experienced much of
his wrath
Major General William
Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman’s
“March
to the
Sea”
through
Georgia,
1864
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
• Emancipation
Proclamation in
1863
• Abraham Lincoln
set the slaves free
Emancipation in 1863
• Freed slaves joined the
military
• Fought for the Union and
the end to slavery
• The 54th regiment were
well known
• For being the best
soldiers with bravery
shown
William Carney
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
The Battle of Gettysburg
Lasted three days
Pickett’s charge
Was a mistake
This was the last time the
South would invade
Gettysburg Casualties
• that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion -- that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth
of freedom -- and that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
Abe Lincoln
Lee Surrenders
• Lee’s Confederate
troops
• Starving and clothes
were rags
• Trapped
• Forced to surrender at
the Appomattox
Courthouse on April 9,
1865
• Grant’s Union troops
• Well-fed and well
supplied
• Surrounded the
Confederate soldiers
• THE WAR WAS OVER!
After four bloody years of civil war,
the South was defeated.
Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.
Surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
• EFFECTS OF CIVIL WAR (read p533 daily life)
• creation of a single unified country
• abolition of slavery
• increased power to fed. gov't – killed the issue of
states rights
• U.S. now an industrial nation
• a stronger sense of nationalism
• Western lands increasingly opened to settlement
• South was economically and physically devastated,
w/ the plantation system crippled...thus
Reconstruction (rebuilding the U.S.) - but a deep
hatred of the North remained...
One More Tragic Death
• Abraham Lincoln did not live to see peace
• Five days after the surrender, Lincoln was shot
and killed
• Watching a play at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C.
• John Wilkes Booth, an actor, assassinated the
President.
• The entire country was saddened
Quick Quiz Part 1 (submit form)
1. Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
a. Fort Sumter, b. Antietam, c. Gettysburg
2. Where was the last battle/turning point of the
Civil War?
a. Fort Sumter, b. Antietam, c. Gettysburg
3. What was the bloodiest battle in the Civil
War?
a. Fort Sumter, b. Antietam, c. Gettysburg
Quick Quiz Part 2
4. Who was the key general of the Confederate
Army? A. Grant, B. McClellan, C. Lee
5. Which general helped the Union win the Civil
War? A. Grant, B. McClellan, C. Lee
6. The North’s strategy to win the war was called
The ___________ Plan.
7. How did General Sherman help the war
effort?
8.What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Extensive Legislation Passed
Without the South in Congress
1861 – Morrill Tariff Act
1862 – Homestead Act
1862 – Legal Tender Act
1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act
1862 – Emancipation Proclamation
(1/1/1863)
1863 – Pacific Railway Act
1863 – National Bank Act
• Congress established a single federal
currency - same value in all states known as "Greenbacks"
• 1) to cover war debts, Union gov't
issued war bonds and intro'd income
tax
• 2) in a further illustration of fed. gov't
power, Lincoln's gov't restricted civil
liberties so nothing would hurt the
Union war effort (suspended Habeas
Corpus—get to see a judge first)
- free press/ speech also interrupted
• 7) 1864 Election - only in Union
- pitted Republican Lincoln against
Democrat General McClellan  Lincoln
won easily, assuring that war will
continue (N. Democrats wanted an end)
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)
The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
WANTED~~!!
Now He Belongs to the Ages!
Credits to PPT picts/modified slides:
• http://americanhistory.pppst.com/civilwar.ht
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