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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:
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Important people
Symbols
Exaggerated details
Labels that identify parts of the cartoon
Voice or thought bubbles
A caption
Rail Splitter Cartoon
Match each letter to one of the six artistic
devices
What do you think is the cartoonist’s
message?
Lincoln’s Election
This is the way the North views it
This is the way the South views it
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!”
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
North v. South at the Beginning
*LIST ADVANTAGES / DISADVANTAGES EACH SIDE HAD AT THE START
North
South
Advantages
?
?
Disadvantages
?
?
Rating the North & the South
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources: North & the South
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?
The Union and Confederacy in 1861
Overview
of
Civil War
Strategy:
“Anaconda”
Plan
Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Immigrants
as a %
of a State’s
Population
in
1860
Battle of Bull Run
st
(1
Manassas),
July, 1861
Emancipation Proclamation
"That on the first day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, 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”
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
Emancipation in 1863
The Southern View of Emancipation
African-Americans in Civil War Battles
The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN
(April 12, 1864)
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.
The War in
the West,
1863:
Vicksburg
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
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”
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
Sherman’s
March
through
Georgia
to the
Sea, 1864
Presidential
Election of
1864
The Final Virginia Campaign:
1864-1865
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars