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1 1860 Presidential Election -S. Democrats (v-p Breckinridge) -N
1860 Presidential Election S. Democrats (v-p Breckinridge) N. Democrats (Douglas -popular sov.) Constitutional Union Party (old Whig, & American Parties) Republican (Abraham Lincoln) Lincoln - 40% popular / 59% electoral 6 weeks - SC secedes from Union 6 others GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX Feb “Confederacy Formed”

2 Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

3 Confederacy Created Fort Sumter (P.G.T. Beauregard)
Jefferson Davis (MS) Montgomery, AL Confederate soldiers occupy Federal offices & Forts in the South What Happens Now? Lincoln ‘new’ Pres Fort Sumter (P.G.T. Beauregard)

4 Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

5 Nation Divides for WAR

6 Nation Divides for WAR

7 Secede after Election of 1860

8 SC

9 GA

10 FL

11 AL

12 MS

13 LA

14 TX

15 Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter Confederate States of America

16 April 12, 1861 Confederate Troops fire on Union troops in Fort Sumter
April 15th Lincoln calls for volunteers to Stop the Rebellion ( Preserve the Union ) Other States Secede VA, NC, TN, AR

17 Secede after Ft. Sumter

18 VA

19 NC

20 TN

21 AR

22 April 12, 1861 Confederate Troops fire on Union troops in Fort Sumter
April 15th Lincoln calls for volunteers to Stop the Rebellion ( Preserve the Union ) Other States Secede VA, NC, TN, AR Border Slaves States remain in the Union DE, MD, KY, MO

23 Border Slave States

24 MD DE WV MO KY

25 FREE STATES

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27 April 12, 1861 Confederate Troops fire on Union troops in Fort Sumter
April 15th Lincoln calls for volunteers to Stop the Rebellion ( Preserve the Union ) Other States Secede VA, NC, TN, AR Border Slaves States remain in the Union DE, MD, KY, MO Copper Heads – Southern sympathizers in North (Border States) UNION CONFEDERACY

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29 Map Part of Unit Test MO, KY, MD, DE AR, TN, NC, VA SC TX MS AL GA
LA FL TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC

30 Civil War

31 CIVIL WAR Western Campaign BATTLES Eastern Campaign BATTLES 1861 1862
1863 1864 1865

32 Robert E. Lee - SURRENDERS
“CIVIL WAR” Western Campaign BATTLES Feb - Grant / Tennessee April - Battle of Shiloh June - Memphis - New Orleans July 4 - Vicksburg Surrenders Sept - Chickamauga Nov Chattanooga Sherman Attacks Georgia Sept - Atlanta Captured * Sherman’s March to the SEA * Eastern Campaign BATTLES July - 1st Battle of Bull Run March - Monitor v. Merrimac Aug nd Battle of Bull Run Sept - Antietam Dec Fredericksburg May Chancellorsville July 3 - Gettysburg March – Grant Eastern Commander * Lincoln Re-Elected Grant Wears Down Lee April - Richmond Surrenders 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 Robert E. Lee - SURRENDERS

33 The Union & Confederacy in 1861

34 Civil War Strategy

35 The UNION “Anaconda” Plan
Capture the capital of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA) Capture the Mississippi R. and Split the Confederacy Blockade the Confederacy and … STARVE TO DEATH! Eastern Campaign Western Campaign

36 War Strategies (Union v. Confederate)
Union - Anaconda Plan (Three Prong Attack) capture Richmond (capital) capture Mississippi River Blockade the South (starvation) South - War of Attrition fight to make the other side “QUIT” 1st Modern Industrial War New War Technologies (mass production) Trench Warfare Means EXTREMELY HIGH CASUALTIES

37 North vs. South in 1861 North South Advantages ? Disadvantages

38 Rating the North & the South

39 Railroad Lines, 1860

40 Resources: North & the South

41 Men for Duty in the Civil War

42 Advantage & Disadvantage
UNION + +population 22 mil. ( 3 X fighting men) +90% of Factories +2/3 Railroads +3/4 countries Financial resource +Civil Leadership Disadvantages -Poor Military Leadership Difficult Strategy CONFEDERATE + +Defend it’s soil +Better Military Leadership +Used to Guns +”King Cotton” Disadvantages -NO factories -Less Resources -Poor Civil Leadership


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