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Civil War
Ch 2.4
Monday, February 13, 2012
• Daily goal: Understand the North’s strengths
and the significant events of the Civil War.
• Notes Analysis:
• Uses your Ch 2.2 notes and explain how
Manifest Destiny divided the North and South
and what problems it created for Native
Americans.
• Your response must include: manifest destiny,
Missouri compromise and trail of tears.
Notes Analysis Sample
• Manifest Destiny pushed the country west and
created an imbalance in power between the
North and South. The Missouri Compromise
temporarily settled this dispute. Manifest
Destiny also influenced pushing the native
Americans off their land in the trail of tears.
War objectives
• North-wanted to preserve the Union.
• South- protect slavery by any means.
Where are the Republicans?
Abe wins, SC secedes, other Southern states follow pg.172
Lincoln’s election
• Believed slavery was morally wrong, but
promised he would not get rid of it.
• The Southern states distrusted Lincoln and
began their secession from the US.
• They then formed their own country called
the Confederacy.
Lincoln suspends Habeus Corpus
• Lincoln suspended writs of habeus corpus,
which is a court order that the gov’t must
either charge a person with a crime or set
them free.
• The gov’t could then indefinitely imprison
people without trial.
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Attrition War
• The Civil War was an attrition war which was
won by the side who had the most resources
and could out last their opponent.
• The North’s economy and resources far
surpassed the South’s.
Emancipation Proclamation
Sept. 1862 – Emancipation Proclamation
 4 months to rejoin the Union
 States who rejoined the Union would
have their “right” to own slaves
untouched
Jan 1, 1863 – Emanc. Proc. effective
 Freed slaves in the Confederacy – NOT
in the border states that remained with
the Union
Did it really end slavery in Confederate states?
Emancipation in 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln issued the decree freeing all enslaved
persons in the rebelling states.
• Slaves in border states still loyal to the Union
were not freed.
• The war was now to end slavery.
SAVANNA, GEORGIA
Sherman’s March to the Sea
• General Sherman brought total war to the
South destroying everything in his army’s path
as it marched through.
• Sherman wanted to pressure the South to
quit.
The South Surrenders
• General Robert E. Lee surrendered for the
South at the Appomattox Courthouse in April
1865 ending the war.