The Civil War: Union vs Confederacy

Civil War Review #1: How many southern states seceded (left the United States) to become part of the Confederate States of America (CSA)? Eleven

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Civil War Review #2: Which key announcement by Lincoln was a turning point of the Civil War? THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

Civil War Review #3: Which battle was the bloodiest of the Civil War and was a turning point of the war? GETTYSBURG

Civil War Review #4: TRUE or FALSE Nearly as many Americans died during the Civil War as in all other wars that America has been involved with combined. TRUE.

There were over 625,000 military deaths during the Civil War.

Secession!

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Battle of Bull Run Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Antietam Shiloh

Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863) Freed the slaves in states that had seceded from the Union. Changed focus of war from keeping Union together to ending slavery France and England decide to stay neutral

Gettysburg – The Turning Point The second and final time the South invaded the North On July 3, 1863 General Pickett led 15,000 Confed. troops across open fields Union troops mowed them down

Lee was defeated and retreated to Virginia “General Lee, I have no division now”. ---Gen. Picket after the Battle of Gettysburg Lee was defeated and retreated to Virginia Over 100, 000 people died in 3 days Pickett’s Charge

The Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863 The Gettysburg Address is a speech by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[1] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence[2] and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis,[3] with "a new birth of freedom,"[4] that would bring true equality[5] to all of its citizens.[5] Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality.[2] Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the Declaration of Independence, written at the start of the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners (and the nation) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address differ in a number of details and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech. Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Soldiers' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery. Recitation

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

After four bloody years of civil war, the South was defeated. On slide: Graphic. Click 1: After four bloody years… Click to next slide.

End Results: The United States as a country was preserved. The national government had asserted its supremacy over the state governments. Slavery was ended, but the future of African Americans remained uncertain.