Transcript The Civil War

The Civil War
US History – Chapter 10
Essential Question
• How did the Civil War affect the United
States and its people?
The Start of the War
My Confederate
Cousin?
Civil War Charts and Graphs
• The next two slides show important
information about the North and South
• On the Civil War Packet,
– List three things that would help the North
– List three things that would help the South
Civil War
• North
– More resources
– More people
– Moral cause
• Preserve Union
• End Slavery?
• South
– Better military leaders
– Defense of
• Way of life
• State’s rights
• American ideals?
Overview
of
Civil War
Strategy:
“Anaconda”
Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
A proclamation (a formal public statement )
issued by President Lincoln in September,
1862, effective January 1, 1863, freeing
the slaves in all territory still at war with the
Union.
**Only Confederate slaves were freed!
Purpose – give the Union a moral cause
Emancipation in 1863
The Southern View of Emancipation
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
Gettysburg Address
• “Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.”
– Purpose of the Introduction?
More Gettysburg Address
• “Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field
of that war.”
– Defense of War (Survival of the UNION)
End of the Gettysburg Address
• “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us -- 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.”
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
End of the War
• Appomattox – Lee surrenders 4/9/1865
• Lincoln assassinated – 4/14/1865
– Worse thing that could have happened to the
South?
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars