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The American Civil War 1860 – 1865 Growing Regional Differences (1820 – 1860) • Sectionalism = N/ S • Factory vs. Farms • Immigration in the North • Railroads vs. Waterways • Free vs. Slave • $1.5 B North vs. $155 M South GNP The Compromise of 1850 • The Mexican War of 1846-48 increased the size of the U.S. (Balance of Power) Henry Clay (KY) proposed: 1. CA be admitted as a free state 2. NM and UT would vote on slavery 3. Slave trade abolished in capital 4. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Bleeding Kansas! (1854 – 1856) • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) opened NW territories to slavery • Free-soilers and Border Ruffians vied for control • Abolitionist John Brown kills 5 pro slavers in KS • Violence spreads to the Senate floor as Senator Charles Sumner is caned The Road to Disunion • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe • Republican Party (1854) • Dred Scott Decision (1854) • John Brown hanged for attack on Harpers Ferry (1859) The Election of 1860 • Democratic Party Split N and S over territories & slavery • Douglas (popular sovereignty), Bell (TN), & Breckenridge (KY) • A. Lincoln (R) wins with 40% of popular vote (carries no S state!) Secession! South Carolina leaves on Dec. 20, 1860 and 6 others follow to CSA by 1861. Southern War Strategy • After Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861) 4 more states joined the CSA. • The CSA Generals and President Davis planned a defensive war. • CSA hoped Europe would aid and had better leadership. • Lincoln hoped to preserve the Union. Northern War Strategy The Union developed a strategy called the Anaconda Plan. They hoped to: 1. Blockade all Southern Ports 2. Control the Mississippi River and divide the CSA in half 3. Capture and occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA General R. E. Lee forces Stalemate in the East • 1st Bull Run,VA (7/1861) • Antietam (9/ 1862) • Fredericksburg, VA (12/1862) • Chancelorsville, VA (5/1863) – CSA Gen.“Stonewall” Jackson dead The Emancipation Proclamation • Issued Fall 1862 and effective Jan. 1, 1863 • Freed all slaves in areas of the U.S. still under CSA control • Battle of Antietam (Sept. 1862) • Only good if Union won war 1863: The Turning Point • July 1-3, 1863 – Lee leads Army of N.VA North to PA • 23,000 Union and 28,000 CSA casualties at Gettysburg, PA • July 4, 1863 – Gen. U.S. Grant takes Vicksburg on Mississippi River • The Tide Turned to Union Sherman’s March to the Sea and Total Warfare • Sept. 2, 1864 – Gen. Sherman captures Atlanta, GA • Marches to Savannah, GA – 300 mile-long and 50 mile-wide swath of destruction • Turns north in Dec. 1864 to meet Grant • Civilians and slaves suffer immensely Lee Surrenders! April 9, 1865 • Richmond, the CSA capital, was in ruins • President Davis and officials fled from Grant • Appomattox, VA • 640,047 Union and 483,026 CSA casualties of war Lincoln is Assassinated! • John Wilkes Booth, an actor, plotted to kidnap Lincoln and others • April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre he shoots Lincoln • Booth is later killed near Port Royal, VA • 4/10 co-conspirators were hanged