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Civil War
Harcourt Brace Social Studies
Background to the Conflict
Differences Divide North and South
Regional Differences
 north
 south
Q - How was the North different
from the South?
The Slave Economy
 plantations
Q - Why was slavery important in
the Southern states?
King Cotton
 Eli Whitney
 cotton gin
 textile mills
 “Cotton is King”
Q - How did the cotton gin help
speed up cotton production?
North and South Disagree
 state’s rights
 slavery
Q - Why did the settlement of the
western frontier bring about new
arguments over slavery?
Africans in Slavery and Freedom
Life Under Slavery
 slave codes
 overseers
 spirituals
Q - How did people in slave
communities help one another?
Fighting Back
 resist
 rebelled
 Nat Turner
 John Brown
Q - In what ways did enslaved
people resist slavery?
Running Away
 Underground Railroad Music and video
 Harriet Tubman
Q - How did the Underground Railroad
help slaves escape?
Free Africans
 Jehu Jones
 Thomy Lafon
 James Forten
Q - What was life like for most free
Africans in the early 1800’s?
Facing a National Problem
New Compromises
 Henry Clay
 free state
 slave state
 Missouri Compromise
 Compromise of 1850
 Fugitive Slave Law
Q - What two compromises on the
spread of slavery did Congress reach?
Hopes for Peace Fade
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Bleeding Kansas
 Dred Scott
Q - Why did the Supreme Court
deny freedom to Dred Scott?
assignment by an 11th grader
Abraham Lincoln Works for Change
 Abraham Lincoln website by
a history teacher
Q - Why did Abraham Lincoln join
the Republican Party? site by the
Republican Party
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
 Abraham Lincoln
 Stephen Douglas
Q - How did Lincoln’s views differ
from those of Douglas?
A Time for Hard Decisions
The Election of 1860
 Stephen Douglas
 John Breckinridge
 Abraham Lincoln
 November 6, 1860
 December 20, 1860
 seceded from the Union
 Confederacy
Q - What did seven Southern states
decide to do after Lincoln was
elected President?
Fort Sumter
 March 4, 1861
 “We are not enemies, but friends.”
 Major Robert Anderson
 Jefferson Davis
 April 12, 1861 PowerPoint
Q - What did Davis decide to do when
Lincoln said he would send supplies
to Fort Sumter?
Civil War and Reconstruction
The Fighting Begins
Taking Sides
 Northerners
 Southerners
 border states
Q – Why was taking sides hard
for people in the border states?
Lee Joins the Confederacy
 April 19, 1861
 Army colonel
Q – Why was it difficult for
Robert E. Lee to choose sides
in the war?
Battle Plans
 Bull Run
 blockade
 trade
 Anaconda Plan
Q – What were the strengths
of the North? of the South?
Life on the Home Front
 home front
 civilians
 Clara Barton
 Sally Tompkins
Q – In what ways did women
on the home front help the soldiers
who went off to war?
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War and Slavery
problems in the North
problems in the South
Emancipation Proclamation
abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison
Q – Why did Lincoln think that
an Emancipation Proclamation
would help the North?
The Signature That Changed America
by Harold Holzer
The Long Road to a Union Victory
 African Regiments
 Africans join
Q – How did African regiments help
the Union war effort?
Grant Leads the Union
 Robert E. Lee
 Ulysses S. Grant
 West Point
 U.S.
 May 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Q – Why was Grant’s victory at Vicksburg important?
Gettysburg
 Battle of Gettysburg
 Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment
 November 19, 1863
 Gettysburg Address
Q – What did President Lincoln
ask Americans to do in his speech
at Gettysburg?
The March to the Sea
 Union General William
Tecumseh Sherman
 Atlanta
 Savannah
 December 22, 1864
Q – What was the purpose of
Sherman’s March to the Sea?
Lee Surrenders
 Appomattox Courthouse
 April 9, 1865
Q – What problems led to
Lee’s surrender?
One More Tragic Death
 April 14, 1865
 assassination
 Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
 John Wilkes Booth
Q – Why was Lincoln’s death a
shock to both the North and the South?
Life After the War
 A Free People
 Free Africans
 Search for family
Q – How did free Africans help
on another after the war?
The Freedmen’s Bureau
 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
and Abandoned Lands
 education
Q – What was the purpose of
the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Sharecropping
 pay Africans
Q – Why did landowners pay worker in shares rather than in cash?
A New President
 Reconstruction
 Andrew Johnson
 Thirteenth Amendment
 black codes
Q – What did Andrew Johnson
try to carry out when he became President?
Congress Takes Action
 new state governments
 Fourteenth Amendment
 impeach
Q – Why did Congress vote to
change Johnson’ Reconstruction plan?
Reconstruction Ends
 black codes end
 Fifteenth Amendment
 scalawags
 carpetbaggers
 segregation
Q – How did white Southerners
take authority back from their state
leaders as Reconstruction ended?