The Civil War The First Shots The Strengths and Weaknesses The Game Plans

First Shots

Union troops were stationed in Fort Sumter, which is part of SC SC did not like having a foreign nation in its territory Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter Lincoln ordered the Union army to put down the rebellion

The War has started...

Strengths & Weakness' Of the Union & The Confederacy!

CATEGORY NORTH SOUTH

9,000,000 23 11 22,000,000 Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis CATEGORY NORTH SOUTH Other Names No. Of States Population Leadership Railroads Confederacy, Confederate States of America, CSA Union, United States of America, USA 23 11 9,000,000 (includes 3,500,000 slaves) 22,000,000 Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis 25% of nation’s railroads 75% of nation’s railroads

Border State: state that allowed slavery but did not secede the Union.

Richmond, VA Washington, D.C. 1,500,00 army 1,000,000 army No navy at Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson - well trained, experienced Generals Capital Army Navy Cause for fighting? Ulysses S. Grant George McClellan -inexperienced Richmond, VA (briefly in Montgomery, AL) Washington, D.C. 1,500,00 army 1,000,000 army Large Navy which grew larger as war progressed No navy at war’s start - Maintain “southern way of life,” which includes slavery - Preserve the country - Free the Slaves

Strategies of the Union What is the game plan? Strategies of the Union and Confederacy!

What’s the Strategy… Confederate Strategy: 1.) We broke away. It’s up to the Union to make us stay! All we need to do is defend! 2.) Make the war drag on. Northerners will eventually get sick of it!

Can you guess what the Union plan was?

What’s the Strategy… Can you guess what the Union plan was? Union Strategy was the “Anaconda Plan.” The plan was to: Block off ports Control the Mississippi River - Starve the Confederacy of supplies Can you guess what the Union plan was?