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Civil War
Melissa Sharer
W. Stiern Middle School
Ms. Marshall
2009-2010
HSS 8.10
Civil War Began
• Started in Dec. of 1860, a number of
states started to separate from the Union
• Lasted from 1861 to 1865
• 902 million people died
Causes & Effects of Civil War
Causes
• Disagreement over the institution of slavery
• Economic differences
• Political differences
Effects
• Slavery ends
• 620,000 Americans killed
• Military districts created
• Southern economy in ruins
Who Fought in the Civil War?
• Union (north) vs. Confederates (south)
• Referred to as “War Between the States”
• Ulysses Grant, Robert Lee, Scott Hancock, Irvin
McDowell, James Carleton, John Breckenridge,
and Richard Ewell
Strategies or Tactics
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The Anaconda Plan
Art of War
Civil War Strategy, The Early Years
Confederate Strategy
Napoleonic Arithmetic
Principals Of War
Union Strategy
Life During the War
• While the nation was breaking apart, daily
life continued in the cities, towns and
farms of America
• Woman took up roles as factory workers,
clerks, school teachers, and nurses
• Camp life was primative, housing was
mostly of tents, and food was cooked over
an open fire
Most Important Battles Of the Civil
War
• 5,050 total battles 50 major battles and
5,000 minor battles
• Most important battles: First Bull Run,
Seven Days’ Battle, Second Bull Run,
Antietam, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg,
Fort Sumter, and Chattanooga
End of the Civil War
• Lee surrendered to Grant ending the civil war
• Abraham Lincoln had a Reconstruction Plan to
help rebuild the southern states
• The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were
passed ending slavery and finally giving African
Americans rights
Reconstruction
• Lasted from 1865 to 1877
• Reconstruction is the process of
readmitting the former Confederate
states to the Union
• Ten Percent Plan was proposed
• New Southern State Governments
were made
Reconstruction Ends
• Violence of the Ku Klux Klan was a
challenge to reconstruction
• Republicans slowly lost control of the
southern state governments to the
Democratic Party
• Severe economic downturn began the
Panic of 1873
Resources
“US Civil War 1861-1865” History Place.
January 27, 2010
www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
White, Deborah Gray, Deverell, William.
United States History. United States of
America: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston,
2006. p 472-503