Download The Civil War (1861

The
Civil War
(1861-1865)
Through
Maps, Charts,
Graphs &
Pictures
North vs. South in 1861
North
South
Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Rating the North & the South
Slave/Free States Population,
1861
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources: North & the South
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Ohio Military Service
Soldiers’ Occupations:
North/South Combined
Immigrants
as a %
of a State’s
Population
in
1860
The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
The Confederate “White House”
The Confederate Seal
MOTTO  “With God As Our Vindicator”
A Northern View of Jeff Davis
Overview
of
the North’s
Civil War
Strategy:
“Anaconda”
Plan
The “Anaconda” Plan
Lincoln’s Generals
Winfield Scott
Irwin McDowell
George McClellan
Joseph Hooker
Ambrose Burnside
Ulysses S. Grant
George Meade
George McClellan,
Again!
McClellan: I Can Do It All!
The Confederate Generals
“Stonewall” Jackson
Nathan Bedford
Forrest
George Pickett
Jeb Stuart
James Longstreet
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Bull Run
(1st Manassas)
July, 1861
The Battle of the Ironclads,
March, 1862
The Monitor vs.
the Merrimac
Damage on the Deck of the Monitor
Buy Your Way Out of Military Service
War in the East: 1861-1862
Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties
Emancipation in 1863
The
Emancipation
Proclamation
The Southern View of Emancipation
African-American Recruiting Poster
The Famous 54th Massachusetts
August Saint-Gaudens Memorial to Col. Robert
Gould Shaw
African-Americans
in Civil War Battles
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
Extensive Legislation Passed
Without the South in Congress
1861 – Morrill Tariff Act
1862 – Homestead Act
1862 – Legal Tender Act
1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act
1862 – Emancipation Proclamation
(1/1/1863)
1863 – Pacific Railway Act
1863 – National Bank Act
The Morrill Tariff took effect one month after it
was signed into law. The tariff had been written
for peacetime with the purpose of protecting of
industrial manufacturing, located mostly in the
northeast, from foreign competitor products. The
United States needed more revenue to support
its troops in the field --$320 million for the next
year, of which three-fourths had to come from
tariff revenues.
The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by the
U.S. Congress. It provided for the transfer of 160
acres (65 hectares) of unoccupied public land to
each homesteader on payment of a nominal fee
after five years of residence; land could also be
acquired after six months of residence at $1.25
an acre. The government had previously sold
land to settlers in the West for revenue
purposes. As the West became politically
stronger, however, pressure was increased
upon Congress to guarantee free land to
settlers.
1862 – Legal Tender Act
Republican Congressman Elbridge C.
Spaulding of New York, a member of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
proposed a solution. He drafted a bill
making paper currency, payable on
demand by the U.S. Treasury but
unbacked by gold or silver, legal tender for
all debts, public and private, except duties
on imports and interest on the public debt.
The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as
the Land Grant College Act. It was a major
boost to higher education in America. The
grant was originally set up to establish
institutions is each state that would educate
people in agriculture, home economics,
mechanical arts, and other professions that
were practical at the time. This gave each
state 30,000 acres of public land for each
Senator and Representative. These numbers
were based on the census of 1860. The land
was then to be sold and the money from the
sale of the land was to be put in an
endowment fund which would provide
support for the colleges in each of the states.
In the 1850s Congress commissioned
several topographical surveys across the
West to determine the best route for a
railroad, but private corporations were
reluctant to undertake the task without
Federal assistance. In 1862 Congress
passed the Pacific Railway Acts which
designated the 32nd parallel as the initial
transcontinental route and gave huge
grants of lands for rights-of-way. The
legislation authorized two railroad
companies, the Union Pacific and the
Central Pacific, to construct the lines
After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861,
Abe Lincoln was concerned with financing
the war so he proposed a system of
national banks authorized to issue national
bank notes fully backed by federal
bonds. The system would provide a
uniform national currency and would bring
banks that entered it under federal
control.On Feb. 25, 1863, Congress
passed the N.B.A. The acts of 1863 and
'64 remained the basis of national banking
policy until 1913 when the Federal
Reserve Act came in.
The War in
the West, 1863:
Vicksburg
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
The North Initiates
the Draft, 1863
Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC
Recruiting Blacks in NYC
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
A “Pogrom” Against Blacks
pogrom, a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or
other, and characterized by the killing and destruction of their homes, businesses, and
religious centers
Inflation in the South
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
Sherman’s
“March
to the
Sea”
through
Georgia,
1864
1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
The Peace Movement: Copperheads
Clement Vallandigham
During the Civil War, the Copperheads
nominally favored the Union and strongly
opposed the war, for which they blamed
abolitionists, and they demanded immediate
peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted
President Lincoln and the Republicans ousted
from power, seeing the president “…as a tyrant
who was destroying American republican values
with his despotic and arbitrary actions.” Some
Copperheads tried to persuade Union soldiers to
desert. They talked of helping Confederate
prisoners of war seize their camps and escape.
They sometimes met with Confederate agents
and took money. The Confederacy encouraged
their activities whenever possible
1864 Copperhead Campaign Poster
Cartoon Lampoons Democratic
Copperheads in 1864
Presidential
Election
Results:
1864
The Final Virginia Campaign:
1864-1865
Surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)
The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
The Assassination
WANTED~~!!
Now He Belongs to the Ages!
The Execution