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“People that are grateful {?} are always Happy.
People that feel entitled {?} are always Sad.”
Leon II’s advise to Leon III on how to vote
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Strategies for Victory
 The Union planned an aggressive campaign; attack and move in -- OFFENSIVE
 The South planned to hold tight until the North lost the will to fight:
protect what you already have -- DEFENSIVE
 Union 4-Part Plans
 1. Blockade Southern ports; cut off the South’s supply of manufactured goods
from Europe
 2. In the East, seize Richmond, Virginia the Confederate capital;
quickly capture the Confederate government
 3. In the West, seize control of the Mississippi River;
prevent the South from using the river to supply its troops
 4. This maneuver would also separate Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana
from the rest of the Confederacy
 Confederate 4-Part Plans
 1. Fight a strictly defensive war until the Northerners tired of fighting
 2. When the war became unpopular in the North, Lincoln would stop the
fighting and recognize the South’s independence
 3. The Confederacy counted on aid from Europe
 4. Cotton was grown in the South; European textile mills needed their cotton
 Europe, in need of this Southern cotton, would recognize the Confederacy as
an independent nation
 Thus, continue to buy the South’s primary resource -- COTTON
 Battle of Bull Run
 July 21, 1861, Union troops left the North’s capitol, Washington, D.C.
 They headed toward South’s capitol - Richmond, Virginia, 100 miles away
 Washingtonians, civilians from Washington, D.C., rode along with the
troops to watch the battle
 The two armies met up near a small stream in Virginia know as Bull Run
*** TEKS 8.8 B ¿¿ What was the significance of the Battle of Bull Run ?
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 Naval Action
 Union ships blockaded Southern ports delivery rate to 1 out of 10 ships;
cutting supplies by 90%
 The Confederates took an abandoned Union warship, covered it with iron
plates and named it the CSS Virginia
 Union cannonballs bounced harmlessly off the Virginia’s metal skin
 The Union countered with its own ironclad ship the USS Monitor
Actual Photographs; a new technology of the day
CSS Virginia
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*** TEKS 8.8 B ¿¿ How did the battle between the Virginia and the Monitor change
warfare at sea ?
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Union Victories in the West -- Lincoln’s New Hero – US Grant
 Union strategy for the West was to capture and control the Mississippi River
 General Ulysses S Grant was in charge for the Union
 February 1862, Grant attacked and captured Forts Henry and Donelson in
Tennessee
 These Confederate forts guarded important tributaries of the Mississippi River
 Grant showed his toughness and determination by winning a 3rd battle, the
Battle of Shiloh; one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War
 The Union Navy captured New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee
 By capturing these two ‘port’ cities, the Union controlled both end of the
Mississippi River; Ole Man River became a Yankee
 South could no longer use the river as a supply line
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