1. Goal 3
The Civil War

4. The Union vs. The Confederate States of America
The Union (USA)
Location:
Color of Uniform:
President:
Capital:
Commander(s):
* GOAL:
The Confederate States
of America
(The Confederacy)
Location:
Color of Uniform
President:
Capital:
Commander:
GOAL:

5. The Union vs. The Confederate States of America
The Union (USA)
The North
Blue
President: Abraham
Lincoln
Capital:
Washington, DC
Commander(s):
George McClellan;
Ulysses S. Grant
* GOAL: preserve the
Union
The Confederate States
of America
(The Confederacy)
The South
Grey
President:
Jefferson Davis
Capital:
Richmond, Va.
Commander:
Robert E. Lee
GOAL: preserve states’
rights

6. Advantages Southern Advantages Confederate Northern Advantages Union
Profits from “King Cotton” provided money for the war effort.
Great military leaders & a strong military tradition
Fight a defensive was on familiar grounds
Soldiers fighting for a “cause” who were highly motivated (survival)
Northern Advantages
Union
Larger population so more fighting power (22 million)
Resources such as coal and iron
Manufactures and labor to produce war goods
More food production
Establish Navy
Extensive railroad system to transport goods and troops
Lincoln was a skilled leader.

7. Anaconda Plan
The Union (General Winfield Scott) devised a three part plan to conquer the South:
Blockade Southern ports so the South could not export or import;
Control the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in half;
Sought to isolate and divide the Confederacy to capture the capital at Richmond, Va.

10. Major Battles Ft. Sumter – First Bull Run – Shiloh- Antietam
Gettysburg –
Vicksburg-
Appomattox
Date, winner of battle, what did winner gain for each battle. You can create a chart or paragraph

11. Starter

12. William T. Sherman May – December, 1864 “March to the Sea”
Union commander that believed in total war
Tennessee –Georgia
Marched through the South destroying everything in his path in an effort to break the will of the South
Railroad tracks, buildings, bridges, private homes

13. Map of Sherman’s March to the Sea

14. The Gettysburg Address
Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ETC……………………………

15. Appomattox Courthouse
On April 9, 1865, Southern General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
This effectively ended the Civil War

17. Slavery as a War Aim Slavery did not become a war aim until 1863.
The Union feared that Britain would join on the side of the South if they did not include abolition as a war aim.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as a military decree freeing all slaves in rebelling territories. No slave was emancipated, however, until the end of the war with the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Abolished slavery in the United States

18. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
An all-African American regiment that was formed in Massachusetts
The 54th earned respect for its discipline and courage in battle.
Congressional Metal of Honor
This battle was the subject of the movie Glory.

20. Clara Barton

21. Mathew Brady’s Photographs

22. War Casualties What inferences can you make by studying the graph?
# of Men Engaged
# of Casualties
Civil War
2,213,363
643,392
Spanish American War
306,760
4,108
WWI
4,734,991
320,518
WWII
16,112,566
176,245
Korean War
5,720,000
157,530
Vietnam War
8,744,000
211,438
What inferences can you make by studying the graph?
Why did so may soldiers die in the Civil War?