Transcript american civil war - HillcrestHighEnglish

Introduction
How & when did the war start?
What happened during the war?
What was the result of the war?
How does this connect to ‘To Kill A
Mocking Bird:?
• The Civil War from 1861 to 65
was the bloodiest and bitterest
conflict the United States of
America had ever experience. It
was, President Abraham Lincoln
said, a test of whether America
could endure. Although the
nation emerged from it intact,
the ‘war between brothers’ left
a legacy of grief and hatred. It
remains a vital formative
influence on one of the strongest
nations in the world.
The Civil War was kindled by aconflict of interests
between the northeaster and southestern sections of
the country at a time when most of the West was still
being settled.
In 1850, slavery had become the most important
issure in American politics. 11 Southern slave states
declared their secession from the United States and
formed the Confederate States of America, also
known as "the Confederacy"..
Lincoln redused to recongnize the dismemberment
of the United States and appeled to the
Confedederate states to reconsider. Their reply came
at dawn on 12 Apirl when Southern guns opened fire
on For Sumter, a federal outpost in Charleston, South
Carolina, Virginia, Arjanasas, North Carolina and
Tennessee soon joined the Confederacy (confederacy
was a crossed state line and divided family during
the Civil War, made up of 23 American states
including California and Oregon.) Both sides
mobilized. The Civil War began.
• Apirl 16th 1861 Lincoln calls on States to provide Militia to the
Union. Richmond newspapers reported Lincoln's call for 75,000
troops to suppress the Southern uprising.
• April
1862
-The
Battle
of
Shiloh.
On April 6, Confederate forces attacked Union forces under
General Ulysses S. Grantt at Shiloh, Tennessee. Casualties were
heavy -- 13,000 out of 63,000 Union soldiers died, and 11,000
of 40,000 Confederate troops were killed.
• April -- 1965 The Assassination of President Lincoln.
On April 14, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of
"Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he
was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed
with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next
morning. Eleven days later, cornered in a burning barn, Booth was
fatally shot by a Union soldier. Nine other people were involved in
the assassination; four were hanged, four imprisoned, and one
acquitted.
• April 1865 -- Final Surrenders among Remaining Confederate
Troops.
Remaining Confederate troops were defeated between the end
of April and the end of May. Jefferson Davis was captured in
Georgia on May 10.
• Victory was to the South, though The Civil War had cost the lives of 360,000
Uninon and 260,000 Conferderate men as well as thousands of inisant civilians.
The South was in ruins.
• There were numerous consequences of the Civil War. The political dominance of
the South was destroyed as a result of the war. Northeastern industrial and
financial interests came to influence the direction of the nation and the
economy. The Republican Congress also enacted higher tariffs which increased
taxes on imported goods. The income tax was used during the war, later to
become a permanent part of the Constitution. The debt of the government
increased. Perhaps the most obvious consequence of the Civil War was the end
of slavery. While the slaves were now freemen, the Civil War would also usher
in the period of Reconstruction which would have a divisive and lasting effect
on
the
nation
as
a
whole.
"To Kill a Mockingbird was written and published amidst the most
significant and conflict-ridden social change in the South since the
Civil War and Reconstruction. During the war in America., when
the Southern states broke away from the Union of States to form
the Confederate States of America. It was a bid to form their own
system od ruling which would allow them to keep slavery alive.
Eventually, the Confederate States were defeated and slavery
was abolished. However, this did not alter the attitudes of a large
number of Southerners. Negros were still considered to be second
class citizens, and in towns like Maycomb which comes out in the
book ‘To kill a Mocking bird’, they continued to lead segragated
lives.