2. Political Cartoons Political cartoons express the cartoonist’s opinion on a current issue through images and words Cartoons contain some or all of the following artistic devices: –Important people –Symbols –Exaggerated details –Labels that identify parts of the cartoon –Voice or thought bubbles –A caption

3. Rail Splitter Cartoon Match each letter to one of the six artistic devices What do you think is the cartoonist’s message?

5. Lincoln’s Election This is the way the North views itThis is the way the South views it

6. Fight to Save the Union OLD ABE – “OH, ITS ALL WELL ENOUGH TO SAY, THAT I MUST SUPPORT THE DIGNITY OF MY HIGH OFFICE BY FORCE. BUT ITS DARNED UNCOMFORTABLE SITTING!”

7. Civil War Charts and Graphs The next four slides show important information about the North and South In your notes create a chart like the one on the following slide

8. North v. South at the Beginning NorthSouth Advantages?? Disadvantages?? *LIST ADVANTAGES / DISADVANTAGES EACH SIDE HAD AT THE START

9. Rating the North & the South

10. Railroad Lines, 1860

11. Resources: North & the South

13. North vs. South North –More resources –More people –Moral cause Preserve Union End Slavery? South –Better military leaders –Defense of Way of life State’s rights American ideals?

14. The Union and Confederacy in 1861

15. Overview of Civil War Strategy: “Anaconda” Plan Overview of Civil War Strategy: “Anaconda” Plan

16. Men Present for Duty in the Civil War

17. Immigrants as a % of a State’s Population in 1860

18. Battle of Bull Run (1 st Manassas), July, 1861

19. Emancipation Proclamation "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons”

20. Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Purposes –Frees slaves only in the South? –Border states locked up –Moral rallying point for Union forces – appease abolitionists –Create problems for South –Create potential troops – large numbers of able bodied men Reactions –Northern democrats, border states protest –South uses it as diplomatic issue

21. Emancipation in 1863

22. The Southern View of Emancipation

23. African-Americans in Civil War Battles

24. The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN (April 12, 1864)

25. Nathan Bedford Forrest (Captured Fort Pillow)  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered? black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered? black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.

26. The War in the West, 1863: Vicksburg The War in the West, 1863: Vicksburg

27. The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

28. Gettysburg Casualties

29. Gettysburg Turning point of the Civil War –Last Offensive move by the South –South unable to recover from loss of troops, equipment, etc. –Begins Northern strategy of “total war”

30. The Progress of War: 1861-1865

31. Sherman’s March through Georgia to the Sea, 1864

32. Presidential Election of 1864

33. The Final Virginia Campaign: 1864-1865

34. Casualties on Both Sides

35. Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars