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The
American Civil
War
(1861-1865)
Jonathon Davis
BELLWORK
APRIL 21
Get in your group and draw job cards.
Recorder- Get a battle sheet paper off
the front desk FOR EACH PERSON.
Get out your study guide.
Reporter-Get a CHROMEBOOK for your
group.
LEADER- RAISE YOUR HAND
Put your name on the battle sheet.
Sit Quietly.
Battle Map Activity
GROUP LEADER- Look at your battle task
card.
READER- Look at your first battle and pull
it up on Mrs. Lee’s webpage/ Civil War
Battles.
Watch your video for your battle and take
notes on battle sheet card then move to
the next battle.
Closing Procedures
Reporter- Put CHROME BOOK back up and
be sure to plug it up.
GROUP LEADER- Make sure all job cards
are put up and task folder is in middle of
desk.
EVERYBODY- PUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE
AND BATTLE SHEET IN THE PRONGS OF
YOUR BINDER
*GROUP LEADER- Do not raise your hand
until everybodys paper is IN THEIR BINDER.
65. Significant Results of War
CITIES
Petal-10,454
Hattiesburg-45,989
Gulfport-67,793
Jackson-173,514
Biloxi-45,054
Meridian-41,148
Pascagoula-22,392
Starkville-23,888
Oxford-18,918
Pearl-25,092
WARS
Revolution-4,400
War of 1812-2,260
Mx-Am War-1,733
WWI-53,042
WWII-396,557
Korea-33,700
Vietnam-57,258
Global war on terror3,950
BEGINNING GOALS
37. Yankees – Union – North
-wanted to preserve the Union
37. Rebels – Confederacy – South
-wanted to preserve their way of
life even if it meant
independence
Advantages:
38. Yankees – Union – North
-larger, free population
-more manufacturing capabilities
-more railroads
-stronger navy
-volunteers
-Lincoln
39. Rebels – Confederacy – South
-knowledge of countryside
-fought mostly a defensive war
-fought for their property
-great generals/Lee
Railroad Lines, 1860
Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Nathan Bedford
Forrest
Only enlisted man to
achieve rank of
lieutenant general
Brilliant, yet brutal,
cavalry leader
Lieutenant General
James Longstreet
Climbed the ranks
quickly
One of Lee’s most
trusted advisors
Lieutenant General
Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson
One of the most
skilled tacticians of
the Civil War
Had a unique ability
to inspire the men
“I cannot raise my
hand against my
relatives, my
children, my
home.”
40. Robert E. Lee
Border States/slave states / stayed in Union
Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri
35. Lincoln wanted to hold on to border states;
*Losing border states would increase
Confederacy population.
**Border states surrounded our nation’s capital.
41. General Winfield Scott’s 3-step strategy to
defeat the South:
capture
Richmond
take control of
Mississippi River
use navy
to blockade
Southern ports
42. Union’s strategy-Anaconda Plan
43.
MS River
supplied
Confederate
troops with
supplies
from the
West.
44. The Confederate “White House” in
Richmond, VA
located 100 miles from Washington D.C.
46. The Battle of the Merrimack (C) and the Monitor
(U) marked the end of wooden warships.
45. Battle of Bull Run
(1st Manassas)
July, 1861
(first major battle)
47. The bloodiest single day of fighting occurred along
the Antietam Creek during the Battle of Antietam.
(1862, over 23,000 casualties)
A Bloody Day…
48. Confederates accidentally shot Thomas
\
Stonewall Jackson during the Battle of
Chancellorsville – left his arm amputated and he
died a few days later.
49. BATTLE OF SHILOH
April 1862, Grant overcame southern forces
and took control of western Tennessee getting
the Union closer to controlling the MS River.
Confederate
Union
50. The
Emancipation
Proclamation
(1-1-1863)
3 reasons that Abraham Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation.
1. gain support of antislavery groups
2. broaden the goals of the war
3. discourage foreign powers from
helping the South.
African-American Recruiting Poster
51. The Famous 54th Massachusetts
African-Americans
in Civil War Battles
52. Hardships:
deadly weapons
The North
Initiates the
Draft, 1863
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
53. Copperheads 54. Income tax
*did not support war
*wanted to end the War
*tax people’s
earnings
55. Women of the Civil War:
Clara Barton-Union
nurse/founded Red Cross
Worked on farms and
industries
Gave out medical supplies
Raised money
Made uniforms/weapons
Disguised as men/fought
in battle
Spies
56. Ulysses S. Grant
•Hiram Ulysses Grant
•Union General
•“Unconditional Surrender”
•Lincoln’s man to win
Grant’s
strategy on
Vicksburg
56. siege
-a
military blockade
of an enemy in order
to force a surrender
6 weeks for Grant
to take Vicksburg
56. Grant’s forces cut off the supply lines to Vicksburg in a
strategy called a siege- blockade of a city.
Vicksburg - blocked the Mississippi River where the South
was getting its supplies.
Starving residents ate horses, mules, and dogs.
Citizens – forced to
stay in city
July 4, 1863 –
Confederates surrendered
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
G. Meade
57. The Battle of Gettysburg lasted 3 days. It was
a victory for the North and considered the
turning point of the War. It was the most
celebrated site of “Pickett’s Charge”.
58. “Pickett’s Charge” was a failure.
Gettysburg Casualties
59. Gettysburg Address
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain……and that government of the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.” This is a quote from the
Gettysburg Address.
The Battle of Chickamauga
TOTAL WAR:
60. destroying food, supplies,
transportation; whatever necessary
1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
61.
Sherman’s
“March
to the
Sea”
through
Georgia,
1864
62. Second Inaugural Address –March 4, 1865
“With malice toward
none
with charity for all, let
us
strive to bind the
nation’s wounds………”
One of the finest speeches
in American history……
Pres. Lincoln (R)
malice – desire to
cause harm
63. Surrender at Appomattox Court House
April 9, 1865
64. 4 years
TIMELINE
UPDATE
With the country on the
brink of war, bachelor
president
James Buchanan
failed to take action
to preserve the Union.
Abraham Lincoln guided the
Union through the
Civil War and
proclaimed
Slave Emancipation in
1863.