1. Advantages and Leadership
The Civil War
Advantages and Leadership

2. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865

3. Two Sides
The Union
&
The Confederates

4. Union Army
Confederate soldiers sometimes refereed to the Union soldiers (nicknames) as:
Yankees, Yanks, Blue, Billy Yank, Jayhawkers (originally Kansas men only but Confederates came to use it more widely), Redlegs (for Kansas irregulars only), bummers, Dutch (applied to any German-American troops), Blue Bellies, Licolnites or abolitionists

5. Confederate Army
Union soldiers sometimes refereed to the Confederate soldiers (nicknames) as:
Rebels, CSA (Confederate States of America, Butternut, reb or rebs, secesh= short for secessionist, grayback.

6. Popular Sovereignty
The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.
American History. (before the Civil War) a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery.
-In other words: the people of the territory decide whether a territory is free or slave

7. South Carolina was the first state to secede the Union
Lincoln’s Election
Cause of Secession
South Carolina was the first state to secede the Union

8. Advantages of North vs. Advantages of the South at the start of the Civil War
South Advantages
Better Military leaders
“Home-field” advantage
Slaves that could do manual labor
Knowledge of the land they were fighting
North Advantages
A larger population
More manufacturing
A stronger Navy
vs.

9. Leadership of the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Leadership of the Civil War

10. Military Leaders William Tecumseh Sherman-North Ambrose Burnside-North
George McClellan-North
Jefferson Davis-South
Robert E. Lee-South
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (got his nickname because he held his lines like a stonewall) -South