Political Cartoons Political cartoons express the cartoonist’s opinion on a current issue through images and words Cartoons contain some or all of the following artistic devices: –Important people –Symbols –Exaggerated details –Labels that identify parts of the cartoon –Voice or thought bubbles –A caption

Rail Splitter Cartoon Match each letter to one of the six artistic devices What do you think is the cartoonist’s message?

Lincoln’s Election This is the way the North views itThis is the way the South views it

Fight to Save the Union OLD ABE – “OH, ITS ALL WELL ENOUGH TO SAY, THAT I MUST SUPPORT THE DIGNITY OF MY HIGH OFFICE BY FORCE. BUT ITS DARNED UNCOMFORTABLE SITTING!”

Civil War Charts and Graphs The next four slides show important information about the North and South In your notes create a chart like the one on the following slide

North v. South at the Beginning NorthSouth Advantages?? Disadvantages?? *LIST ADVANTAGES / DISADVANTAGES EACH SIDE HAD AT THE START

Rating the North & the South

Railroad Lines, 1860

Resources: North & the South

North vs. South North –More resources –More people –Moral cause Preserve Union End Slavery? South –Better military leaders –Defense of Way of life State’s rights American ideals?

The Union and Confederacy in 1861

Overview of Civil War Strategy: “Anaconda” Plan Overview of Civil War Strategy: “Anaconda” Plan

Men Present for Duty in the Civil War

Immigrants as a % of a State’s Population in 1860

Battle of Bull Run (1 st Manassas), July, 1861

Emancipation Proclamation "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons”

Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Purposes –Frees slaves only in the South? –Border states locked up –Moral rallying point for Union forces – appease abolitionists –Create problems for South –Create potential troops – large numbers of able bodied men Reactions –Northern democrats, border states protest –South uses it as diplomatic issue

Emancipation in 1863

The Southern View of Emancipation

African-Americans in Civil War Battles

The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN (April 12, 1864)

Nathan Bedford Forrest (Captured Fort Pillow)  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered? black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered? black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.

The War in the West, 1863: Vicksburg The War in the West, 1863: Vicksburg

The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

Gettysburg Casualties

Gettysburg Turning point of the Civil War –Last Offensive move by the South –South unable to recover from loss of troops, equipment, etc. –Begins Northern strategy of “total war”

The Progress of War:

Sherman’s March through Georgia to the Sea, 1864

Presidential Election of 1864

The Final Virginia Campaign:

Casualties on Both Sides

Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars