U.S Civil War

1. U.S Civil War Kristalyn Lima

2. Before The War South North -There were 11 Southern states during the years of 1860 and 1861 -South wanted slavery mostly for Farming -The slaves did most work on the large farms -The South wanted to be its own nation -The thing they did the most in the South was farming -There were 22 Northern states during the years of 1860 and 1861 -The North didn’t want slavery -The North manufactured many items -They wanted to be one whole nation -The North had more people

3. 1860 -May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party -As the nation headed toward the election of 1860, the issue Of slavery had raised sectional tensions to the breaking point -On November 6, 1860 ,Lincoln is elected president -On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state To secede -In 1860, the Republicans delegates met in Chicago at a Convention hall known as the Wigwam

4. 1861 -At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, shore guns opened fire on the island Fort -On July 21, 1861, there was a battle known as the First Battle of Bull Run -Italy unified under King Victor Emmanuel II -March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as president -Lincoln ordered an invasion of Virginia in the summer of 1861

5. 1862 -April 6, 1862, the Battle of Shiloh takes place -In the first ironclad battle, the Confederate Virginia battled The Union Monitor off the coast of Virginia in 1862 -Lee attacked McClellan’s army , the two sides clashed for a week, from June 25 to July 1, 1862, in what became known as Seven Days’ battle -Lee crossed the Potomac with his army and invaded Maryland in early September 1862 -On September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, McClellan’s army clashed with Lee’s , the resulting Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in all American history

6. 1863 -January 1863, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation after presenting it to his cabinet -In the spring of 1863, riots broke out in a number of Southern towns -54th Massachusetts Regiment was one of the first African-American Regiments organized in the North , it earned its greatest fame in July 1863 , when it led a heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina -July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg was on. It was Between Lee and Union troops -On July 4, 1863, the Union had received news that in Mississippi, General Ulysses S. Grant had defeated Confederate troops at the Siege of Vicksburg

7. 1864 • March 1864, General Grant is put in charge of all Union armies • -November 1864, President Abraham Lincoln is reelected • -Battling Southward from Tennessee, William Tecumseh Sherman took • Atlanta in September 1864 • -In June 1864, Grant’s Armies arrived at Petersburg, just south of Richmond • -At the Battle of Wilderness in May 1864, Union and Confederates forces fought • In a tangle of trees and brush so thick, they could barely see each other

8. 1865 -Lee fled west, while Grant followed in pursuit. Later he sent a message to General Grant saying he is ready to surrender. On April 9, 1865, Lee and Grant met in the small Virginia town of Appomattox Court House too arrange the surrender -In January 1865, Lincoln urged Congress to try again to end slavery. This measure passed as the 13th amendment -April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated -After 1865, people no longer said “the United States are” but “the United states is” -September 1865, English officials arrest Fenian leaders of planned uprising in Ireland

9. Lincoln's Assassination -Five days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln and His wife went to see a play at Ford’s Theatre in D.C. -During the play, a Confederate supporter, John Wilkes Booth, Crept into the balcony where Lincoln sat and shot him from The back of the head -Then he jumped over the railing and landed on the stage. Although he broke his leg, he managed to escape the theater -Although Booth escaped the theater after the shooting, Union Troops found him and killed him several days later -After Lincoln was shot, he was carried to a house that was across the theater, however the bullet in his brain wasn’t able to be removed. April 15, 1865, Lincoln died

10. 13th Amendment -One of the greatest effects of the war was freeing of millions of Enslaved people -As the Union army moved through the South during and after war, Union soldiers released African Americans from bondage -In 1864, President Lincoln had approved of a constitutional Amendment to end slavery, but failed to pass congress -In January 1865, Lincoln urged Congress to try again to end slavery. -This Time, the measure passed as the 13th amendment

11. 14th Amendment -Republicans weren't satisfied with the passing laws that ensured Equal rights, they wanted equality to be protected by the Constitution itself -To achieve this goal, the Congress proposed the 14th amendment in 1866 -It is stated that all people born in the U.S were citizens and had the same rights -It declared that any state that kept African Americans from Voting would loose representatives in Congress -This meant that Southern states would have less power if they did not grant black men their vote

12. 15th Amendment -After Grant’s victory, Radical Republicans worried that the Southern states might try to keep African Americans from voting in future elections -To prevent this, Radical leaders stated a new constitutional amendment -The 15th amendment stated that citizens could not be stopped From voting “on account of race, color, or previous conditions of Servitude.” -The amendment was ratified in 1870 -With the 15th amendment, the nation again turned toward democracy -The 15th amendment did not apply to women. Women were mad

13. Venn Diagram SIMILARITIES SOUTH NORTH -South wanted slavery To expand all over the nation -South didn’t want North to stop slavery -South wanted to take over North -South wanted to defeat the North so slavery wasn’t banned -South was known for farming -They both are American -They both had developed In 1800 -They both fought against Each other -They both had heavy injury After the war -They both get sick because Of the virus during Civil War -North had more People than South -The North was more wealthier than South -North wanted slavery to end -North wanted to be one whole nation -North wanted to cut the economy so the confederate would surrender