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1. Southern Advantages and Disadvantages (22.2)

1. Southern Advantages and Disadvantages (22.2). Advantages= - Defending Homes. Knew the land and best cover. Best officers, strong military leadership. Good hunters and shots. Disadvantages= Few factories and railroads. Political problems, States Rights. Small population.

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1. Southern Advantages and Disadvantages (22.2)

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  1. 1. Southern Advantages and Disadvantages (22.2) • Advantages= • - Defending Homes. • Knew the land and best cover. • Best officers, strong military leadership. • Good hunters and shots. • Disadvantages= • Few factories and railroads. • Political problems, States Rights. • Small population.

  2. 2. Northern Advantages and Disadvantages (22.2) • Advantages= • Population, farmland and food, 90% of the factories, 70% of the railroads, and large Navy. • Land contained most of the nations coal, iron, copper, and gold. • Good Leadership from Abraham Lincoln. • Disadvantages= • Lacked good military leadership. • Conquer huge piece of land. • Unfamiliar land. • Long supply lines.

  3. 3. General Lee (22.2) • Lee from Virginia. • Very loyal. • Asked by Lincoln to be the Northern commander. • Could not fight against Virginia and Family.

  4. 4. War Leaders (22.2 • Davis (South), Lincoln (North), see the flipper for characteristics. • Jefferson Davis was also a senator from Mississippi.

  5. 5. Union and Confederate Strategies for Winning the War (22.3) • Union= Keep the Union together. • Blockade Ports. • Control Mississippi River. • Capture the Capital (attack from the North). • Confederate= Independence. • Wait out the North, defensive war. • Supplies and aid from Europe.

  6. 6. Battle of Bull Run (22.3) • Showed both sides needed training. • Long bloody war. • A quick victory was impossible.

  7. 7. Women in War (22.3) • Worked in factories, farms, and took care of home. • Messengers, spies, guides, • Nurse the wounded (Dorthea Dix, superintendant of nurses and Clara Barton, red cross). • Did not serve in battle.

  8. 8. Battle of Antietam (22.4) • Lee hoped by invading the North to get Maryland on the South’s side (slave state). • Confederate Victory on Union soil would convince European countries to come in on the South’s side.

  9. 9. New Realities of War (22.4) • Improved weapons make it easier to kill (miniball). • Unsanitary conditions spread disease. • Unsanitary conditions in camps make disease the #1 killer in the Civil War.

  10. 10. Emancipation Proclamation & Lincoln (22.5) • Proclaimed, slaves only freed in the Confederate States. • Slaves refused to work after the proclamation. • Abolitionist, Europeans, slaves, and free African Americans support. • Not freed in the Border States. • Abolishing slavery a war goal now.

  11. 11. Battle of Gettysburg and the Address (22.5) • In Pennsylvania. • Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, 50,000 died. • Turning point of the war. • South suffered huge losses compared to the North. • South would no longer invade the north. • Lincoln not the key speaker. • Dedicated as a cemetery. • Refers to the Declaration of Independence and says, that our nation will have a new birth of freedom moving forward.

  12. 12. Battle of Vicksburg (22.6) • On the Mississippi River. • Control the Mississippi River and cut the Confederate States into two (part 2 of the Anaconda Plan). • Grant captures Jackson and then Vicksburg from the back. • Union now controls the Mississippi River.

  13. 13. African Americans in the War (22.7) • Served as laborers in the beginning of the war. • Fought in major battles by 1863. • Won honors for bravery. • Guides and spies in the south. • Danger of being returned to slavery if caught by the south during the war.

  14. 14. Total War (22.8) • Civilians are subject to the same hardships as soldiers. • Destroy everything in the South and their ability to fight. • Grant’s plan to win the war. • Sherman is the General that carries this out with his march to the sea through Georgia.

  15. 15. Lincolns Reelection (22.8) • After his election the goal of the war was to work toward peace. • Lincoln’s goal for peace was to be very forgiving.

  16. 16. The War Ends (22.8) • Grant battles Lee for 9 months of fighting at Petersburg and Richmond. • Grant surrounds Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. • Grant’s Terms for Surrender = Generous terms of surrender, the men can go home and promise not to fight, keep horses and mules for spring planting, and officers could keep swords and weapons. • The North begins to cheer and Grant quiets them and tells them to accept the south as our countrymen now.

  17. 17. Changed Country, Touched by Fire (22.8) • Federal government superior to the states. • No more slavery. • Cost Billions. • 620,000 lives. • Economy and environmental destruction. • First modern war last of the old wars (industial). • Total war and trench warfare.

  18. 18. Know the Vocabulary Terms Ch. 22 • Confederacy. • Civil War. • Emancipation Proclamation. • Gettysburg Address. • Appomattox Court House. • Habeas Corpus. • Pick 4 out of the 6 to do all Vocab. Items (4boxes). • Last 2 words just write the simple definitions. • Study them for the quiz.

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