Download The Civil War And Reconstruction 1860-1867

The Civil War And Reconstruction
1860-1867
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The events leading up to succession/war
• Hostilities Begin
• Fort Sumter—N surrenders the fort.
• Lincoln calls for volunteers
• More Succession/Some Stay!
Strengths
North
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Advantages
Wealth
Finances
Industry
Agriculture
Railroad
Navy
Disadvantages
exp. Generals
Divided Population
South
• Advantages
• Vast Size
• Home Turf
• Better Generals
• More Politically/Militarily
Experienced President
• Disadvantages
• Smaller Population
• Smaller Industrial Base
Strategies
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North---Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan
South---Fight To a Draw
The Union Preserved
Union Victories in the West
The Success of Northern Diplomacy
The War at Sea
Antietam Creek
Proclamation without Emancipation
• The EP freed slaves in the not yet conquered South, but
slaves in the Border States and conquered states were not.
• Lincoln freed the slaves in the areas where he could and
wouldn’t free slaves where he could.
• The EP was controversial and some soldiers deserted
refused to fight for abolition.
• However, since many slaves, upon hearing about the EP, left
their plantations, and began to undermine the Southern
workforce
• Southerners screamed that Lincoln was just stirring up
trouble and seeking a slave insurrection.
• Politics?????
Blacks Battle Bondage
• At first no enlistment…..eventually 10% of the
union Army
• Until 1864 the South did not recognize Blacks
as POWs----Executed “Remember FT Pillow”
• Not all left their place with the writing of the
EP----waited until the area was conquered.
The Home Front
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The Homestead Act
The Morrill Land Act
Provision of the Conscription Act
Food Scarcity ---Bread Riot in Richmond
National Banking Act 1863
Habeas Corpus/ ex. Parte Merryman (1861)
The Politics of War
• Congressional Committee on the Conduct of
the War
• Radical Republicans
• Northern Dems split---War Dems/Peace Dems
• Copperheads---denounce the War and Lincoln
• Clement L. Vallandigham---leader
The Election of 1864
• Republicans joined by War Dems= Union Party
• Copperheads and Peace Dems nominate
George McClellan
• Union Party nominates Tenn. Man Andrew
Johnson to ensure War Dems vote for Lincoln
• Lincoln/Johnson win 212-12 pop. Vote closer
• As Union wins at New Orleans and Atlanta
Emancipation Proclamation
and Back to the War
• January 1 1863----E. P.
• Lincoln searches for the right Military leaders
• Lincoln finds Grant---outnumbers Lee and defeats
him in the “Wilderness” Campaigns
• Outrage over casualties
• Sherman Takes Atlanta---Sherman’s March
• The Surrender April 9th 1865 Appomattox
Courthouse Va.
• Lincoln Shot. April 14th 1865.
Lincoln Shot
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John Wilkes Booth
Martyrdom
Southern Reaction
Cost of the War 600,000 $15B
The Future and Reconstruction
Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Problems/Questions
Freed Blacks
How to Reform the Union?
Who would control Reconstruction
What to do with Confederate Leaders?
Freedmen---Freedman’s Bureau
Oliver O. Howard
• Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction
Presidential
• Proclamation of Amnesty
and Reconstruction
• Ten Percent Plan
Radical Republican
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Freedman’s Bureau
• 13th Amendment
Unit Test
• Multiple Choice and IDs Tuesday thanks to the
weather!!!
• DBQ During next unit!