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

2. The Civil War started with the firing at Fort Sumter
The Civil War started with the firing at Fort Sumter. What was it, and how did we get here?

3. When Lincoln was elected in 186o, he promised to maintain federal property in the south (in the states that seceded).
Fort Sumter, a federal fort in Charleston, SC was running low on supplies. Does Lincoln restock the fort, showing that the Union maintains the property? Or does he let it go, and allow the South to restock the fort?

4. Discussion Questions:IF
Lincoln refuses to restock the fort, then who maintains control over the fort? IF
Lincoln sends the navy to restock the fort, then who maintains control over the fort?
What should Lincoln do?

5. Modern Day Example: What would YOU do?
You stay the night over at a friend’s house. When you get back home the next day, you realize you left your favorite pair of shoes there. You have property at your friends house, just like the Union has property in the states.
The plan was to get your shoes back from your friend at school the next day. However, later that evening you two have a huge fight. Your friend refuses to answer your texts; your friend has seceded (left) the relationship just like the South seceded the Union.
But, your property (shoes) are at your friend’s house! You have a choice: do you go to your friend’s house and demand them back and risk a confrontation (Lincoln going into the South)? Or, do you let it go (allow the South to restock the fort)?
IF you let it go, you have just told your friend (without words) that you do not care about the shoes and your friend can have them. If you go get them – you are asserting they are YOUR shoes and you will do whatever necessary to keep them.
What would YOU do?

6. 1.) Lincoln sends the navy to restock the fort.
What happened?
2.) Confederate artillery around Charleston demanded that federal workers in the fort surrender the fort.
1.) Lincoln sends the navy to restock the fort.
3.) Naturally, the south believed the fort was theirs – they demanded either surrender or face war.
4.) On April 12th, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter. The Civil Was has began!

7. Firing on Fort Sumter (
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8. The War has started...

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

10. CATEGORY
NORTH
SOUTH

11. 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

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

13. 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

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

16. Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan Take the CSA capital at Richmond
Take control of the Mississippi River
Robert E Lee leads the Army of Northern Virginia
Southern strategy was an “offensive defense”:
Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman and Army of the Tennessee in the West
George McClellan was in charge of Army of the Potomac
Hopefully attract a foreign ally (Britain, France?)
We broke away – you want us, come get us!
- Drag the war out! Eventually, northerners will get sick of it!
- Attack strategically! At some point, we want to win a battle in the north!
Divide the West from South
Blockade the Southern coast