9. Key Facts on the Civil War
1. In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin? England in the 1780’s 2
2. What was the NORTH and the SOUTH economy based on?
2.Differences between northern and southern states: NOTHERN STATES: SOUTHERN STATES “SLAVE STATE” AGRICULTURE ECONOMY CASH CROP KING OF COTTON “FREE STATE” INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY TEXTILE FACTORIES SOUTHERN STAES:
3. Slavery
4. 1860 Election
people who wanted to end slavery 5A. Abolitionists people who wanted to end slavery
5B. Harriet Tubman Escaped slave Frederick Douglass An escaped slave Returned to the South over 20 times to help others 5B. Frederick Douglass Escaped slave Harriet Tubman
6. Robert E. Lee Confederate General Ulysses S. Grant Union General
On April 13, 1861, Fort Sumter fell to the Confederate bombing.
8. Emancipation Proclamation 13th Amendment FREED THE SLAVES!
9.Appomattox Court House. Grant accepts Lee's surrender to end the Civil War in 1865