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

2. First Shots

3. 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

5. The War has started...

6. Strengths & Weakness'
Of the Union
&
The Confederacy!

7. CATEGORY
NORTH
SOUTH

8. 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

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

10. 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

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

13. 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!

14. Can you guess what the Union plan was?

15. 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?