Transcript Civil War
Civil War By: ANGIE,MERCEDES, GARRET and BOONE!!! Union Soldiers • The typical Union solider had been a farmer before the war who volunteered to defend his home and put down the rebellion of the Southern states. Billy Yank was a Union solider during the American Civil war. Confederate Soldiers • Three Confederate soldiers went to Gettysburg. The soldiers used rifles and cannons in the war. The nicknames of some people in the war were Old man Head, Little Powell , Jeb , Old Pete. In June, Robert E. Lee had begun the second grade invasion of the North. Advantages and disadvantages • They battled in these places Missouri, Texas, Kentucky Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Virginia. John Brown was in the war. Civil war, historian Emancipation proclamation, During the civil ear African Americans tried to keep out of this white man war. At first president Lincoln said that was to save the union not to end slavery. But after a year he changed his mind, then he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, • Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his invention, the Cotton Gin. President Lincoln had it made emptily But the south thought it was there invention. So many thought that the Cotton Gin caused the war. Gettysburg Address President Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg Address. He spoke 272 words in just 2 hours! The under ground railroad It was a tunnel system from slave states to free states. There was white Americans' helping the slaves and they where called conductors. They would hide the slaves from there masters but some times the masters find them and torture them for escaping from there master. Union • Abraham Lincoln was involved in the Civil War because he was a leader of the Civil War. • Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the president and aligned himself with the Radical Republicans. • Frederick Douglass, By 1860,Douglass was well known for his efforts to end slavery and his skill at public speaking. During the Civil War Douglass was a consultant to the president. Union • Harriet Tubman became a spy for the Union army because she rescued 300 slaves. Confederate • Robert E. Lee continuing in the military tradition of his father, Lee entered west point in 1825. • Jefferson Davis was captured by the Union army. He was accused to treason and of planning the assassinated of president Lincoln. • Thomas Stonewall Jackson was sent on military duty in Mexico, and continued his service in the United States army in positions in New York and Florida. Confederate • Joseph E. Johnston, Petty considerations over rank and military etiquette and wounds cost the confederacy. Civil war • Here are the union stats • Stars and bars • Bonnie blue flag • • • • The flags are confederate The third confederate The Sothern cross flag The second Confederate flag