Download hr 3 Haillie and Brittney

By: Hallie Cantu and Brittney Leach
the country was divided into two parts, the
north and south. The did not get along.
It was the battle that started the war. The south
attacked the fort.
 The battle at Fort Sumter made the north angry.
President brought in 75,00 volunteers to join the
Union. Lincolns call was a call for war.
 April 19, 1861 - President Lincoln issues a
Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. For
the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability
of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war
against the industrialized North.
30,000 Union troops marched to Virginia to invade the
south. The south won.
The union wanted to capture the Mississippi river,
they invaded Tennessee.
The union won two victories. Then the south surprised
the north when they attacked them at Shiloh.
after the battle, the union went west and captured
Memphis.
 In august another union army captured Richmond, the
confederate defeated them.
it was general Lees first time to invade the north.
 The confederate thought that if they won it would
make the union make peace with them.
the north had won the battle of Antietam, but many
northerners died in that war. The north wanted to stop
fighting.
on January 1, 1863, Lincoln announced that all slaves in
the states that were at war with the Union were now
free. That gave the Union a reason to fight.
Lincoln couldn’t actually free the slaves unless the
North won the war.
In 1861 Africans in the north volunteered to join the
union army. Both free African-Americans and runaway
slaves joined the fight.
In 1862 were told not to send runaway slaves back into
slavery.
 After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the
abolitionist movement. He wanted African Americans
to become soldiers. At the end of the war 185,00
soldiers were in the war.
Women in the North and South helped in the war.
When men went off to fight the women stayed to plant
and harvest crops. The made their uniforms and
blankets
They took men’s places in the factories.
Women's aid societies collected money, bandages, and
food for the soldiers.
Harriet was a spy for the union. The best information
she got was from slaves who listened to her owners
talk. People called her General Tubman.
She was a spy at the age of 17, she was good at secret
codes. She found information about union
movements, then she coded the information and sent
it to the south.
The confederate army didn't have many military
supplies, because the union blockaded.
Although the Battle of Gettysburg did not end the
war, it was the great battle of the war, marking the
point when the ultimate victory of the North over
the South became clear to both sides alike.
 His speech was called the Gettysburg Address. In the
speech he talked about the wars meaning. He went to
Gettysburg to honor the dead.
over six weeks the union had been attacking
Vicksburg. Since they won they now had control over
the Mississippi River. The confederacy was split in two.
Lincoln was so pleased with Grants victories so, he
made him commander of all union foces.
 He led the union army that marched to Georgia. He
was ordered to destroy that may be useful to the
confederate.
By 1865 the confederacy was close to defeat.
Generals Grant and Lee. Grant lost 60,000 troops and
Lee lost about 30,000. on April 9, Lee surrendered .
The war was over. The north's surrender brought
celebration in the south, and sadness to the North.