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The Civil War . 1861-1865. The Causes of the Civil War . The Election of 1860 The Tariff of 1816 Railroads and industry are only in the North . The Beginnings of the War. Union still has a hold on Fort Sumpter in Charleston, SC Lincoln’s dilemma
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The Civil War 1861-1865
The Causes of the Civil War • The Election of 1860 • The Tariff of 1816 • Railroads and industry are only in the North
The Beginnings of the War • Union still has a hold on Fort Sumpter in Charleston, SC • Lincoln’s dilemma • Confederates fire upon Sumpter in April 1861 • Davis’s dilemma
More states leave the Union • Virginia • Arkansas • Tennessee • North Carolina • The case of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri
Military Strategies - Union Anaconda Plan 3 goals Naval Blockade Control Mississippi Take Richmond Why?
Military Strategy - Confederacy • Best Offense is a Good Defense • Fighting for livelihood – Way of life • Homefield Advantage
Early Battles • Bull Run, Virginia, July 1861 • Significance 1st major bloodshed • Shiloh, Tennessee, March 1862 • Significance Scouts, Trenches • Monitor vs. Merrimack, March 1862 • Significance End of wooden ship era
Fight for the Capital Leads to… • Antietam, Maryland – September 1862 • Bloodiest single day in war • 26,000 casualties • Standoff (Tie) • Union had opportunity to end War but did not take advantage • Results…..?
Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863 • Day One • Day Two • Day Three • Aftermath
Trent Affair, 1861 • Attempt by the Confederacy to gain support from Britain and France
Lincoln and Slavery • Disliked slavery,but felt the federal government should not have the power to ban it • His main goal was to protect the Union • The Emancipation Proclamation • How did Lincoln free slaves in the Confederacy? • Benefits? • Where did it apply? • Northern reactions? • Southern reactions?
Dealing with Dissent • Habeas Corpus • What is it? • Who is arrested? • Conscription • What is it? • Opposition?
Domestic Life during the War • Shortages in the south • Booming in the North
Where are the slaves in the war? • Those left on the plantation • Those who joined to fight • Those trying to free themselves
Medical Attention • United States Sanitary Commission • 1. • 2. • Hospitals
Confederacy Wears Down • Change in Military Strategy • Fight for armistice, instead of victory • Confederate Morale Dangerously Low! • Disunity • Jefferson Davis unable to govern effectively • Discord • Disagreement over whether or not to continue the fight • Desertions • Troops leaving to fight for the Union
Total War • Union New Military Strategy • Attack military & civilian – WHY? • Grant & Sherman lead way • Grant vs. Lee in Virginia • Sherman in Georgia & Carolinas
Appomattox Court House, VA April 9, 1865 • Lee Surrenders to Grant • Remaining Confederate troops surrender within two months
Political Changes • Federal government’s power increases • Income Tax • personal income taxed to pay for government purposes • Draft • drafted to fight in war • Paper Currency • individuals must accept new paper currency
Economic Changes • Big Divide • North benefited from war • Businesses thrived • South affected by total war • Lost labor, livestock, railroad, machinery • Southerners earned 40% of Northerners after war
Civil War Destruction on Human Life: A Comparison
Social Change • 13th Amendment – January 1865 • Outlawed slavery • 4 million African Americans freed – NOW WHAT? • Results • How does US introduce, or incorporate into society? • War Veterans • War is over, where to go? • Some stayed in Military, others headed west for new opportunities
Lincoln’s Assassination April 14, 1865 • 5 days after Lee surrendered • John Wilkes Booth kills Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, as Lincoln is watching a play. • Lincoln died the following morning • 1st time a president had been assassinated in US History • Booth killed during the attempted captured 12 days later