Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

CIVIL WAR.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "CIVIL WAR."— Presentation transcript:

1 CIVIL WAR

2 2. IMMEDIATE:  A. LINCOLN'S ELECTION AS PRESIDENT  B. SOUTHERN STATE'S DECISION TO SECEDE  C. SOUTHERN FORCES' FIRING ON FORT SUMTER

3 Rating the North & the South

4 Slave/Free States Population, 1861

5 Railroad Lines, 1860

6 Resources: North & the South

7 The Union & Confederacy in 1861

8 Men Present for Duty in the Civil War

9 Soldiers’ Occupations: North/South Combined

10 The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis VP Alexander Stevens

11 Buy Your Way Out of Military Service

12 The North Initiates the Draft, 1863

13 NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

14 NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

15 A “Pogrom” Against Blacks

16 Emancipation in 1863

17 African-American Recruiting Poster

18 The Famous 54th Massachusetts

19 Inflation in the South

20 1864 Election Pres. Lincoln (R) George McClellan (D)

21 Presidential Election Results: 1864

22 Casualties on Both Sides

23 Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars

24 Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

25 The Assassin John Wilkes Booth

26 The Assassination

27 WANTED~~!!

28 The Execution

29 CONSEQUENCES: 1. ECONOMICALLY THE SOUTH WAS DEVASTATED; POLITICALLY IT WAS SUBJECT TO DOMINATION BY A CONGRESS CONTROLLED BY NORTHERNERS 2. SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED: ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE FREE CITIZENS OF THE U.S. 3. THREE IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS WERE ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION  13TH - FREED SLAVES  14TH - CITIZENSHIP  15TH - RIGHT TO VOTE CANNOT BE DENIED  BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN

30 4. THE NATIONAL UNION WAS PRESERVED
5. THE FEDERAL SYSTEM WAS UNDERSTOOD TO BE ONE IN WHICH NATIONAL LAWS WERE SUPREME; SECESSION OF A STATE WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED 6. DEEP RESENTMENT ON THE PART OF THE SOUTHERN STATES 7. APPROXIMATELY 620,000 DIED A. NORTH - 360,000(ABOUT) MILLION B. SOUTH - 1/4 OF ITS SOLDIERS DIED MILLION 8. SPURRED ECONOMIC GROWTH


Download ppt "CIVIL WAR."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google