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What If The South Won The War!
Essential Question:
In order to understand the
importance of Lincoln and
the Union victory, let us
examine if the Union had
lost Gettysburg. After the
battle, Lee then proceeds to
capture Washington and
forces Lincoln to give the
South its independence.
What would have become of
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the North, South, and the
West.
Possible Scenarios For
A Nation Divided:
Is it possible there would have been
another or several more Civil Wars?
Could the abolitionists become more
militant and start a guerrilla war
campaign against the South with the
aid of free blacks. Would another
President in the North decided to
bring the South back into the Union?
Civil Wars Throughout The World
 Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002
 Argentine Civil War, 1814-1880
 Cambodia Civil War, 1970-1975
 Carlist Wars (Spain), 1833-1839, 1846-1849, 1872-1876
 Chinese Civil War, 1928-1937, 1945-1949
 Colombian Civil War 1860-1862, 1948-1958, 1982-2010
 Cypriot Civil War , 1967-1974
 English Civil Wars, 1135-1153, 1455-1485, 1642-1651
 Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
 Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996
 Mexican Revolution, 1910-1917
 Palestinian Civil War, 1936-1939, 1947-1948
 Peruvian Civil War, 1980-2000
Civil Wars Throughout The World
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Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Salvadoran Civil War, 1979-1991
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Uruguayan Civil War, 1839-1851
Vietnamese Civil War, 1954-1975
Somali Civil War, 1991-present
What becomes of slavery?
The last nation to abolish slavery
was Brazil and that was done in
1871. Would the follow suit?
Remember the South remains
mainly agrarian dominated
commodity until the 1960’s!
Would the south become a nation
like South Africa?
 South Africa originally colonized by the
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Dutch and English in the 1600’s
Native Black Africans are conquered by
Europeans
Boer War fought between Dutch and English
English win control over the colony
In order to establish white minority
domination over black Africans, whites
establish apartheid laws in 1948
Apartheid laws in 1948, institutionalize
racial discrimination
Would the South become a
nation like South Africa?
 Race laws touched upon every aspect of
social life, including the prohibition of
marriage between non-whites and nonwhites
 The law also sanctioned white-only jobs
 Non-compliance with race laws were dealt
with harshly
 All blacks required to carry “pass books”
containing fingerprints, photo, and
information to non-black areas
Would the South become a
nation like South Africa?
 1n 1951, Bantu Authorities Act was passed which
restricted South African citizenship to whites
only
 1n 1953, Public Safety Act and Criminal Law
Amendment were passed, which empowered the
government to declare stringent states of
emergency and increased penalties for
protesting or supporting the repeal of law. The
penalties included fines, imprisonment and
whippings.
Would the South become a nation
like South Africa?
 In 1960, a large group of blacks in
Sharpeville refused to carry their passes;
the government declared a state of
emergency. The emergency lasted for 156
days, leaving 69 people dead and 187
people wounded
 During the states of emergency which
continued intermittently until 1989,
anyone could be detained without a
hearing a low-level police for up to
six months
Would the South become a nation
like South Africa?
 Population
Blacks 19 million
Whites 4.3 million
 Land Allocation
Blacks 13 percent
Whites 75 percent
 Share of National Income
Blacks < 20 percent
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Whites 75 percent
Infant Mortality
Blacks 20% (urban) 40% (rural)
Whites 2.7 percent
Remember Civil Rights for African
Americans only came about because
of laws passed by the federal
government in Washington, D.C.
 The South does have Jim Crow laws
which are similar to apartheid
 With a unified nation, African –
Americans could leave the South and
travel to the North
 When would civil rights been granted to
African –Americans if the South had
won??
Could Other Southern States secede
from the Confederate
States of America? Remember Texas
was once an independent Republic?
Would Great Britain take
advantage of the dissolution of
the United States and start taking
over states in the West?
What would happen to North
Carolina!
 Would North Carolina remain an agrarian
economy still focused on cotton
 With the continued reliance on cotton. Would
that mean a rise in the slave population to work
the fields
 Would the planters in the East part of the state
continue to dominate the politics, the economics
and culture of the Tar Heel state!
 Would the Democratic party dominate not just
North Carolina but all of the South. One party
rule!
Would the North or South
become a major world power?
 A divided United States may never become a
great world power
 California and other states out West may decide
to become their own nation
Gettysburg Address
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. 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 battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot
consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor
long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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.