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THE NATION TESTED: The Civil War

THE NATION TESTED: The Civil War. By Group 5. The Civil War. The Civil War. A war between the states of America. America was divided into two: Confederacy and The Union. CONFEDERACY South Carolina Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana Texas Virginia Arkansas Tennessee

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THE NATION TESTED: The Civil War

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  1. THE NATION TESTED:The Civil War By Group 5

  2. The Civil War

  3. The Civil War • A war between the states of America. America was divided into two: Confederacy and The Union. • CONFEDERACY • South Carolina • Mississippi • Florida • Alabama • Georgia • Louisiana • Texas • Virginia • Arkansas • Tennessee • North Carolina

  4. THE UNION • California • Connecticut • Delaware* • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky* • Maine • Maryland* • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Missouri* • Nevada • New Hampshire • New York • New Jersey • Ohio • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • Vermont • West Virginia* • Wisconsin

  5. The Civil War It lasted from April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865 (last shot ended June, 1865) It was The Union’s Victory

  6. The Great central fact during this period was the war between the States. The questions of slavery and of states rights had become national issues very soon after 1800. War came and , and for 4 years the soil of America was drenched with the blood of her choicest sons, North and South.

  7. The Mormon movement was started in 1830 by JOSEPH SMITH The years preceding the war were years of spiritual ferment, of religious unrest and of social reform.

  8. The Abolition movement came to a focus under the leadership of WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, receiving powerful aid later through the writings of Whittier, Lowell and Stowe.

  9. Unitarianism came into being in New England as a protest against the strictness of Puritanism. In the hands of Emerson and the influential group of thinkers living in Concord, Massachusetts, arose a new philosophic doctrine, TRANSCENDENTALISM

  10. TRANSCENDALISM Transcendentalism was highly idealistic. It valued people more than things, the soul more than the body, character more than wealth.

  11. Political Letter and Speech ABRAHAM LINCOLN • From a letter to Horace Greeley • Horace Greeley is the famous editor of the influential New York Tribune. On August 20, 1862, he publish an address to the president under the title “The Prayer of 20,000,000 people” • The Second Inaugural Address • Delivered March 4, 1865

  12. Abraham Lincoln

  13. The Short Story NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE • The Ambitious Guest • Based on a tragedy which took place in the famous mountain pass in the White Mountains of New Hampshire known as the Notch • David Swan • Hawthorne relates three thrilling incidents that never took place.

  14. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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