Transcript The Civil War Through Maps & Charts

1860
Election
Results
Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861
Ft. Sumter
The Union and Confederacy in
1861
Border States-”I hope to have God on my
side, but I have to have Kentucky”-A. Lincoln
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“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly
the same to lose the whole game.
Kentucky gone, and we cannot hold
Missouri, nor, I think Maryland.
These all against us, and the job on
our hands I too large for us. We
would as well consent to separation
at once, including the surrender of
this capital [Washington}.-Abraham
Lincoln
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Remained in the Union because
the North did not start the
war.
Sent 300,000 soldiers to Union
Army
Mountain whites sent 50,000
soldiers to Union Army
West Virginia left Virginia in
mid-1861 to join Union (large
mountain white pop.)
Border states contained over
50% of the South’s white
pop., fewest # of slaves.
Border states contained 50%
of South’s mules and horses,
and most of its
manufacturuing.
Immigrants
as a %
of a State’s
Population
in
1860
North v. South at the Beginning
North
South
Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Rating the North & the South
Resources: North & the South
Railroad Lines, 1860
Foreign Intervention?
The Confederacy’s Hope
The Trent Affair-1861
The Laird Rams-1863
Confederate Commerce
Raiders-C.S.S. Alabama
Lincoln vs. Davis
Lincoln’s “Temporary Cures”
The Blockade
Upped size of the army with
out Congress’ permission
Paid 2 million to private
citizens for weapons without
Congressional approval
Suspened habeas corpus,
defying Supreme Court
“Supervised” voting in
border states.
New York Draft Riots-1863
Other Draft Issues:
•Exemptions
•Substitutions-$300
•Bounties
Northern Economic Change
Increased Excises
taxes
First income tax
ever!
Morrill Tariff Act
Greenbacks! (paper
money)
National Banking
System
Justin Morrill
The Northern Economic Boom
Manufacturing
booms
New Millionaire
class
War Profiteering
New technology
Bumper crops in
the west!
The Homestead Act of 1862
•160 Acres of free land
west of the Mississippi
•Law had been resisted by
Southerners in Congress;
they didn’t want Free
Soilers settling the West
•Law passed easily now
that Southerners were
gone.
Women and the Civil War
•US Sanitary Commission-trained
nurses, set up hospitals, collected
supplies
•Clara Barton-creates system of modern
nursing
•Dorothea Dix-Superintendent of Nurses
•Increased economic opportunities as
men went to war
•“Government Girls”
•One in three industrial workers
female by war’s end-mostly in textile
industry
Clara Barton
Overview
of
Civil War
Strategy:
“Anaconda”
Plan
Main Thrusts, 1861–1865
War in the East: 1861-1862
Gen. George McClellan
General
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam-Sept. 1862
•One of the
Civil War’s
most decisive
battles. Why?
Burnside Bridge
The Killing Fields of Antietam
The Killing Fields of Antietam
Emancipation ProclamationJanuary 1, 1863-Why?
•Needed a Union Victory to
justify it
•Gives the war new
meaning-not just about
Union anymore
•Makes intervention by
France and England almost
impossible. Why?
•Has big consequences in
the North and South. What
are they?
Ironclads-March 1862
The Monitor vs. The Virginia
Emancipation in 1863
The Southern View of
Emancipation
African-Americans in Civil War
Battles
A Bit of History: The Contraband, the Recruit, the
Veteran-by Thomas Waterman, 1865-1866
Contraband
The Mississippi River 1862–1863
General
Ulysses S.
Grant
The War
in
the West,
1863:
Vicksburg
The Road to Gettysburg, 1863
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
The Progress of War: 18611865
The Election of 1864
The Democrats
The Union Party
The Election of 1864
vs
Lincoln
(Union Party)
McClellan
(Democrats)
The Election of 1864
The Election of 1864
The Election of 1864
1864-1865-The Final Phase
Sherman’s March to the Sea
1864-1865-The Final Phase
Sherman’s March to the Sea
1864-1865-The Final Phase
Grant in Virginia
The Burning of Richmond, April 1865
1864-1865-The Final Phase
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox-April 9, 1865
1864-1865-The Final Phase
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox-April 9, 1865
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other
Wars
President Johnson