Civil War

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• Union fort: low on supplies, so Lincoln sends unarmed group with humanitarian supplies

• Attacked by the Confederacy (April, 1861) the day after Lincoln took office

• The Union surrenders

• No lives are lost

• Start of the Civil War

​Fort Sumter, SC

Advantages and Disadvantages

• Large population

• More factories

• More Railroads

• Had to fight in the south

North/Union

South/Confederacy

• Smaller population

• Fewer factories

• Fewer railroads

• Excellent generals (Lee/Jackson)

• Fighting a defensive war

Multiple Select

Which three of the following would be advantages for the Union?

• Large population

• Had to fight in the south

• More factories

• More railroads

Multiple Select

Which three of the following would be disadvantages for the south?

• Smaller population

• Excellent generals including Robert E. Lee

• Fewer railroads

• Defensive war

• Fewer factories

Multiple Choice

Which part of the snake shows that this is a Union Plan?

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Which part of the snake represents the Union blockade?

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Which part of the snake represents the Union's plan to control the Mississippi River?

• A

• B

• C

Anaconda Plan

• Main goals

  • Cut off supplies coming into the south

  • Gain control of the Mississippi River

    • transport troops and goods

    • cut the Confederacy in half

• North hoped for a quick victory

• Wanted to capture Richmond Va

  • Becomes the capital of the Confederacy

• Confederate forces defeated the Union and forced them to retreat

• The South thought they had won the war

​Battle of Manassas (July 1861) AKA Battle of Bull Run

Washington elite citizens have a picnic near the battlefield of Bull Run in 1861

Results of Battle of Bull Run

75,000 VOLUNTEERS CALLED FOR! SPECIAL MEETING OF CONGRESS!!

…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forthwith, and hereby do call forth the MILITIA of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, in order to suppress the said combination, and “cause the laws to be duly executed.”

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Lincoln's Order after Fort Sumter

Open Ended

Why did President Lincoln write this order after the Battle of Bull Run?

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• September 1862

• Confederates invade the Union

• Bloodiest single day in United States History

• Over 22,000 Americans are dead, wounded, or missing

• Union stops the Confederacy

  • Gave Lincoln the chance to make a very important declaration

Battle of Antietam

Multiple Choice

Using context clues from the sentence below and the fact that the root word of proclamation is proclaim which means declare, pick the definition of Emancipation Proclamation.

Many enslaved people used the Underground Railroad seeking emancipation in the north.

• A document that declared the Civil War was over

• A document that declared all slaves located in the Union occupied south were free

• A document that granted voting rights to women

• A document that declared the Confederacy a colony of Great Britain

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Battle of Gettysburg

• July 1863

• Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863)

• Union forces meet in a small village of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Union attacked the Confederate forces, lasted 3 days

  • Confederate lost ______________

  • Union lost ________________

• Turning Point - Lee’s army never was able to go on the offensive against the North.

• President Lincoln gave the famous: Gettysburg Address

  • 2-minute address honoring all Soldiers that fell at Gettysburg.

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1 score = 20 years

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of "four score and seven years ago" in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

• The first battle of the American Revolution

• The beginning of Washington's first term as president

• The Declaration of Independence

• The creation of the Constitution

1. What physical feature are all of these battles close to?

2. Why was controlling that physical feature so important to the Union?

​Look at battles 1-3 and 6-7 that happened from April, 1862 to July, 1867. Discuss these questions with your group.

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Sherman’s March to the Sea (Sept. 1864)

• Grant ordered William Sherman to capture Atlanta, Georgia

  • Georgia was the Industrial Center of the Confederacy

• He ordered Factories/Railroads to be burned

  • Destruction occurred

  • Helped Lincoln get re-elected in 1864

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse Virginia (1865)

• April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union (capital of the Confederacy)

• Lee Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.

• Over the next three months the rest of the Confederate generals will surrender

• The last one will surrender June 23rd

• Five will go into exile in Mexico for a few years

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Open Ended

What types of things did Grant do to "win the peace"?