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1861–1865 Leading up to the War • Issue over states rights versus the rights of the federal government • Legislative Branch – Senate- 2 from each state – House of Rep- Based on Population. Slavery-3/5ths • Tariffs/Taxes that unfairly impacted the South – Tariff: Tax on imports • Sales of American made goods/ European goods • SLAVERY Industrial Agricultural Leading up to the War • 1818 Missouri Compromise- Missouri is slave and Maine is free • Mexican-American War gave the US much more land • Compromise of 1850California is free, Texas slave, New Mexico & Utah could choose – Also strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act – This angered Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln • Was a moderate in his opposition to slavery • Didn’t want slavery to expand but didn’t want slave states to change • His election helped to trigger secession • Secession: is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity. • 7 states did so just before inauguration “A house divided against itself cannot stand!" CIVIL WAR • The Civil War began when Confederate General Beauregard opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861 CIVIL WAR • US conceived what was known as the Anaconda Plan • Union blockade of the main ports would weaken the Confederate economy The Playaz UNION • General Grant • General Sherman CONFEDERATE • General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson • General Lee Famous Battles • 1st Battle of Bull Run – Stonewall stands tall against Union troops • 2nd Battle of Bull Run – South wins again and cross the Potomac River • Antietam – Bloodiest single day in US military History – This halted Lee’s Armies – 23,000 casualties – McClellan was to cautious and didn’t follow though Famous Battles • Battle of Gettysburg – Turning point in the war – 46,000 and 51,000 Americans casualties in the three-day • Village of Appomattox Court House – Grant and Lee End of War • Slavery effectively ended in the U.S. in the spring of 1865 when the Confederate armies surrendered. All slaves in the Confederacy were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation • 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the population) • More died in this war then all other US wars combined • European immigrants joined the Union Army in large numbers, including 177,000 Germans and 144,000 Irish WWI WWII Vietnam Korean Kuwait Iraq Abraham Lincoln • Reconstruction – 13th,14th,15th Amendments – Rebuilding the South • April 14, 1865 Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth • Andrew Johnson becomes Pres
