1 / 17

BE PREPARED … Grab both papers from the table Take out your battle chart (Mr. B’s class)

BE PREPARED … Grab both papers from the table Take out your battle chart (Mr. B’s class). TODAY WE WILL … Evaluate the effectiveness of the Union’s decision to conduct TOTAL WAR Analyze the impact of the Civil War. HOMEWORK: T.A.S.K . Mr. B’s Notebook Quiz (Tuesday ).

reyna
Download Presentation

BE PREPARED … Grab both papers from the table Take out your battle chart (Mr. B’s class)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. BE PREPARED… • Grab both papers from the table • Take out your battle chart (Mr. B’s class) • TODAY WE WILL… • Evaluate the effectiveness of the Union’s decision to conduct TOTAL WAR • Analyze the impact of the Civil War • HOMEWORK: • T.A.S.K. • Mr. B’s Notebook Quiz (Tuesday)

  2. Lincoln Promotes Grant • Lincoln searched for a general who could lead Union to victory • What do we know about a lot of Lincoln’s leaders? • 1864 – Lincoln appointed Grant commander of Union forces • Graduated in the bottom half of his class from West Point, but… • was excellent on the battlefield!

  3. Sherman’s March to the Sea (battle chart) • Destroy the South’s ability to fight • Waged TOTAL WAR!!! • Destroy food, equipment, etc.. • Civilians in South would suffer the same as soldiers • Lincoln and Grant were apprehensive • Took over Atlanta and burned the city • Marched through Georgia (“MARCH TO THE SEA”) • From Atlanta to Savannah • Ripped up railroad tracks • Killed livestock • Burned barns, homes, bridges, and any factories • About 10,000 slaves followed Sherman

  4. Sherman’s March to the Sea Atlanta to Savannah

  5. Sherman’s men ripping up a railroad

  6. “Sherman’s Bowties/Neckties” Bent Railroad from “Total War” Why would his men do this? Heat the tracks and wrapped them around a tree

  7. The Election of 1864 • Possibility of Lincoln being defeated is good (Northerners unhappy about length of war) • Lincoln v. McClellan • Capture of Atlanta and Savannah (TOTAL WAR) changed voters’ minds • In a close race, Lincoln was reelected Remember him?

  8. Aftermath of Sherman’s March to the Sea • $100 million in destruction • Wrecked 300 miles of railroad • Seized 5,000 horses, 4,000 mules, and 13,000 head of cattle • Confiscated 9.5 million pounds of corn

  9. Many, many thanks for your Christmas gift – the capture of Savannah. When you were leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling that you were the better judge, and remembering that 'nothing risked, nothing gained' I did not interfere. Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor is all yours; for I believe none of us went farther than to acquiesce. And taking the work of Gen. Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantage; but, in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole – Hood's army – it brings those who sat in darkness, to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safer if I leave Gen. Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgements to your whole army – officers and men. - A. Lincoln (Dec. 26, 1864)

  10. The End of the War • Lee withdrew to Appomattox Court House(small Virginia town) • Union troops trapped Lee’s men at A.C.H.

  11. The McLean House(Lee Surrendered to Grant) Lee Grant

  12. Terms of Surrender • Grant offered generous terms • 1) Soldiers turned over rifles(officers kept pistols) • 2) Soldiers kept horses (needed for spring plowing) • 3) Each man allowed to return home, without penalty from U.S!!!

  13. Costs of War • Deadliest war in American history • More than 600,000 Americans died • Country spent 5x the amount spent by government in the previous80 years

More Related