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Launch List. 1. Have your Thematic Essays out to turn in. . Eastern Theater. Western Theater. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861 First Shot of the Civil War. SOUTH FIRES ON FORT SUMTER. Sumter was a federal military base Lincoln wanted to re-supply it and use it to fight in SC

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  1. Launch List • 1. Have your Thematic Essays out to turn in.

  2. Eastern Theater Western Theater

  3. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861 First Shot of the Civil War

  4. SOUTH FIRES ON FORT SUMTER • Sumter was a federal military base • Lincoln wanted to re-supply it and use it to fight in SC • The Confederates fired on the supply ships

  5. Picture: Fort Sumter 1 SOUTH FIRES ON FORT SUMTER

  6. Fort Sumter 2 SOUTH FIRES ON FORT SUMTER

  7. For Sumter Significance • First shots of the Civil war fired here.

  8. Theater/Battles 1862

  9. Secession VA. 8 West Virginia secedes from Virginia in 1863 and sides with USA. Border states/slaves states remain loyal to the Union

  10. Manassas (1st Battle of Bull Run) July, 1861 • South won this battle but “lost the war”. • Would never be so close to Washington, D.C.

  11. Theater/Battles 1862

  12. So Close!

  13. Aftermath--> Bull Run • Today will be known as BLACK MONDAY. We are utterly and disgracefully routed, beaten, whipped by secessionists. • —Union diarist George Templeton Strong

  14. Antietam, Maryland • the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties

  15. Antietam, Maryland

  16. Theater/Battles 1862

  17. Battles in East 1 KEY BATTLES IN THE EAST DATE BATTLE VICTOR RESULT *Sept. 1862 Antietam Draw The North stops South from taking Washington, D.C. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

  18. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Abolitionistspressured Lincoln to free the slaves. • After the Battle of Antietam, he announced that the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863. • ONLY in those states still in rebellion. • Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in US • Lincoln’s “first” step towards ending slavery. • “Final step” 13th Amendment to the Constitution on Dec. 1865 would legally and constitutionally abolish slavery.

  19. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Freed all slaves in states in rebellion against the US • Did not apply to slaves in border states fighting for US • No affect on southern areas already under US control. • War was NOW fought to end slavery. • US soldiers were “Freedom Fighters”

  20. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Kept Great Britain from siding with the South • and becoming an ally. • War was now a war to • abolish slavery • destroy the South • preserve the Union

  21. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Freedom to the Slave, 1863 • Picture celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. • While it placed a white Union soldier in the center: • It also portrayed the important role of African American troops and emphasized the importance of education and literacy.

  22. Battle of Gettysburg Battle with the largest number of casualties, over 50,000. Union Wins Wears out the south. Major turning point

  23. Strategy

  24. Gettysburg Address GETTYSBURG ADDRESS • On November 19, 1863, some 15,000 people gathered at Gettysburg to honor the Union soldiers who had died there just four months before. • President Lincoln delivered a two-minute speech which became known as the Gettysburg Address. • He reminded people that the Civil War was being fought to preserve a country that upheld the principles of freedom, equality, and self-government. • The Gettysburg Address has become one of the best-loved and most-quoted speeches in the English language. • It expresses grief at the terrible cost of war and the importance of preserving the Union.

  25. Theater/Battles 1862

  26. Battles in West 1 KEY BATTLES IN THE WEST DATE BATTLE VICTOR RESULT Feb. 1862 Ft Donelson Union NORTH! Control the Ohio River

  27. Ft Donelson

  28. Theater/Battles 1862

  29. Battles in West 1 KEY BATTLES IN THE WEST DATE BATTLE VICTOR RESULT April 1862 Shiloh Union NORTH! Controls Tennessee River

  30. Theater/Battles 1862

  31. Battles in West 1 KEY BATTLES IN THE WEST DATE BATTLE VICTOR RESULT April 1862 New Orleans Union NORTH! Controls mouth of Mississippi

  32. Theater/Battles 1862

  33. VICKSBURG Vicksburg/Gettysburg On July 4, 1863 • 30,000 Confederate troops defending Vicksburg surrendered their arms. • Grant captured 260 cannons, 60,000 stand-of-arms, and more than 2 million rounds of ammunition. • Former slaves celebrated Independence Day for the first time. • 4 days later, the Mississippi River was in the hands of the Union army • Effectively cutting the Confederacy in two.

  34. Vicksburg/Gettysburg VICKSBURG • Grant captures Vicksburg, splits the CSA in half. • USA controls the Mississippi River.

  35. Theater/Battles 1862

  36. MILITARY PREPAREDNESS • First great post-Industrial Revolution war.

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