1. The Civil War – One nation, TWO cultures
The Union
The Confederacy
To the North, it was seen as treason – “The War of The Rebellion” – not a “civil” war at all. The South did NOT have the right to leave the “Union” of the United States for ANY reason. The North was industrial, supportive of the tariff.
To the South, it was a matter of the rights of the states – in fact, to them, it was “The War Between the States.” They believed a state had the right to leave the US and become its own nation or join another! The CSA was agrarian society.
The Federals
The Rebels

2. What were the chain of events that caused it?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott Decision
John Brown Hanging
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriett Beecher Stowe
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Secession of South Carolina and then Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
Firing upon Ft. Sumter by South
Assign Dred Scot reading and questions from text or do in class.

4. Why Did It Have to Happen?
No agreement about expansion of slavery in West.
Southern dependence on agriculture and hatred of tariff.
Reform movements gaining popularity with abolition being #1.

5. Your Task Create a visual simile that compares the eruption of a volcano
At the bottom, summarize and explain how the compromises and disagreements over the expansion of slavery led to the Civil War
Draw pressure streams of magma that show which events caused the eruption
Draw lava bombs and streams that show which events resulted from the pressure streams
Civil War
Bleeding
Kansas
secession
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Missouri & Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act
Abolition

9. The Who… The North The South
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
General Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the Confederate Forces after being promoted from General of Virginia Forces
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union – the United States
General Ulysses S. Grant, General in Union Army
General William Tecumseh Sherman, General in Union Army
Pass out Ignite Page 6 Key Figures from Civil War Unit

10. Fort Sumter, South Carolina Antietam Vicksburg, Mississippi
Battles to Remember
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Antietam
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Appomattox, Virginia
THERE WERE OTHERS TOO!

11. FORT SUMTER The First Shots O Caroline, Caroline, Child of the sun,
We can never forget,
That our hearts have been one!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The First Shots

12. Antietam 1st battle on Union soil, 1862 23,000 died
Ended Lee’s 1st invasion into the North
Allowed Lincoln to issue Emancipation Proclamation after Union victory
Kept Europe from helping South.

13. The Tide Turns to the North
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
Over 50,000 dead
Lee’s leadership failed for first time
South suffers stunning defeat from which it can’t overcome
Lincoln fires Gen. Meade for not ending war and puts Grant in charge
July 4, 1863
9 month siege to stop blockade of Mississippi river
General Grant wins and cuts South in two parts and makes it unable to get supplies
Read Gettysburg Address Here

14. APPOMATTOX General Lee in retreat from Petersburg waiting for supplies
Lines cut by Union Forces
Virginia army cut in two with no help
Lee meets Grant for terms to surrender on April 9, 1865!

15. Now What To Do? End various battles throughout nation
Catch Jefferson Davis who refuses to surrender
Should the South be punished for its crimes, or forgiven like a prodigal son?

16. Lincoln Wants To Forgive The South
Read from 2nd inaugural here
“The South expects us to punish them, but we will be lenient…”

17. He also promises citizenship for African Americans displeasing many including one John Wilkes Booth and is killed April 14, 1865

18. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States
Reconstruction Begins