Download Here Comes Civil War

Mrs. Katie Ross
Cape Fear High School
TLW analyze events leading to the Civil War by
completing interactive notes and writing a letter.
Preview: page 26
Title: “Who has the advantage”
North
South
Who Has the Advantage?
Place each statement in the appropriate column – North or South?
Slavery is necessary
Few Railroads
Industrial
Excellent Military leaders
Federal Power
Union
Large Cities
State Power
Confederacy
9 million people
22 million people
Agricultural
90% of the nations factories
Favored Tariffs
Opposed Tariffs
Rural
More experienced with guns
Very few factories
Weaker leadership
Twice as many railroads
Slavery is evil
Who has the Advantage?
1.
2.
3.
Who do you think will have an
advantage in the war based on the
items on the chart?
What is the North’s biggest advantage?
What is the South’s biggest advantage?
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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln WINS!
*Republican = opposes
the expansion of
slavery into the
territories
**The South feels threatened
by Lincoln’s election – they
worried he would abolish
slavery.
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South Carolina secedes in response to
Lincolns election (Dec. 20, 1860)
Immediate cause of the Civil War =
Election of Lincoln!
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“Confederate States of America” –
formed Feb. 1861
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Confederacy President
Jefferson Davis
BLUE/USA
GRAY/CSA
•United States of America
or Union
•President Abraham Lincoln
•Capital: Washington, D.C.
•Feds-----Federal
•Yanks-----Yankees
•Bluebellies
•Blue coats
•Confederate States of America
•President Jefferson Davis
•Capital: Richmond, VA
•Rebs------Rebels---”Johnny Rebs”
•Secessh-------Seccession
•Graycoats
•Yellow bellies
Flags: North/South
When the Confederate States of
America was formed, its founders
wrote a constitution similar to the
United States Constitution. Its
differences, however, indicate how
the South Wanted to change their
structure of government.
CSA Constitution
MAIN DIFFERENCES:
•State’s rights
•Tariffs are equal throughout the
CSA
•Slavery is legal and is allowed to
expand!
CSA Constitution
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Lincoln – inaugurated March, 1861
# 1 Goal = “Preserve the Union”
*He wanted to keep the country together!
Lincoln wrote to the antislavery editor
Horace Greeley in August 1862.
“If I could save the Union
without freeing any slave, I
would do it; and if I could
save it by freeing all the
slaves, I would do it; and if I
could do it by freeing some
and leaving others alone, I
would also do that.”
Regarding the Civil War, the London
Times (November 7, 1861) editorialized
“The contest is really for empire
on the side of the North and for
independence on that of the
South, and in this respect we
recognize an exact analogy
between the North and the
Government of King George III,
and the South the Thirteen
Revolted Provinces.”
Picture: Fort Sumter 1
Fort Sumter 2
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Fort Sumter, S.C. (Federal fort in S.C.)
April 12, 1861
* Confederate forces bombarded and
captured Fort Sumter, starting the Civil
War! (The U.S. had run out of
compromises)
*Leads 4 more states to secede
(VA, Ark, TN & NC)
- 11 Total Confederate states
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Suspended “civil liberties” or
parts of the Constitution
 writ of habeas corpus: Protects from
unfair arrest and trial by jury.
 Occupation of Baltimore: Controlled by
military---- “martial law”
 Arrested over 15,000 civilians: Without
“probable cause”---suspicious “Rebel”
sympathizers.
 Closed “rebel” newspapers: Violated 1st
amendment rights of “free speech and
press”.


First Income Tax
Greenbacks
 1st paper money
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Commander of the
Confederate Army
(South)
General Robert E. Lee
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Commander of the Union
Army
(North)
General
Ulysses S. Grant
Theater/Battles 1862
Battle of Bull Run
st
(1 Manassas), July, 1861
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Battle of Bull Run (Manassas, VA)
July 1861
* 1st major battle of the Civil War
* Confederate Leader = Stonewall Jackson
**** Reality check for the North – war will not
be easy!****