Reading 1: The Start of the Civil War

Reading 1: The Start of the Civil War

How does conflict begin?

• Patriotism

• Preserve the Union

• Reunification of the states

Union

• Patriotism

• Independence

• Right to secede

Confederate

​Why did soldiers choose to fight?

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Match the following

• Confederate

• Union

• Patriotism

South

North

Both

• South

• North

• Both

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Match the following

• Reunification

• Independence

• Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

North

South

Preserve the Union

Right to secede

• North

• South

• Preserve the Union

• Right to secede

• large population

• railroads

• ​industry

Union

• ​better military leaders

• home terrain

• did not have to defeat North

​​Confederate

​Strengths

​Goals of the War

• South wanted to be independent nation, they didn't need to invade and defeat North

• North wanted to restore the Union, it had to invade the South and defeat them

• Abraham Lincoln

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." 

Multiple Choice

The Confederacy had a stronger fighting spirit and more soldiers than the Union.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When the war began, Abraham Lincoln stated slavery was not a war goal.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The basic strategy of the South was to conduct a defensive war.

• True

• False

Who were the soldiers?

• Men of all ages rushed to enlist. The North allowed African Americans to enlist later in the war. The South allowed African Americans to serve only when it became desperate.

• Union soldiers became known as Yankees, and Confederate soldiers were called Rebels.

• By the end of the war 2 million men served in the Union, 900,000 for the Confederacy

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By the summer of 1861, the Confederate army had about 112,000 soldiers. They were sometimes called ​

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The Union had about 187,000 soldiers, also known as ​

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. By the end of the war, about ​

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men fought for the Confederacy and about ​

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men for the Union.​

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Rebels.

Yankees

900,000

2.1 million

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When the war began, each side expected a quick victory. ​

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could not imagine the Confederates holding out for long against the Union's greater ​

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. The Confederates believed that the North could never subdue the ​

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of the South. Both sides were wrong.

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Northerners

resources

fighting spirit

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