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The Civil War
Causes of the Civil War
 The tariff on imported goods from
Europe helped the North’s economy
but hurt the South .
 States’ Rights (nullification)
 Slavery
 The Election of 1860 – Lincoln was
elected without any Southern
electoral votes
Secession
The act of withdrawing
from a country
Northern Advantages
More railroads
More factories
More population
More large cities
Southern
Advantages
Fighting on home soil
The best generals – trained at
military schools in the South
Abraham Lincoln
16th President.
Held the Union together
during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Confederate General
Fort Sumter
Federal fortress in South
Carolina.
Where the first shots of the
Civil War were fired when
Confederates attacked
Antietam
 A creek near Sharpsburg Maryland
 Battle lasted from dawn to dusk
 23,000 casualties
 No decisive victory for either side
 Lee escapes back into Virginia
 Lincoln relieves McClellan of his
command
 War continues for 2 more years
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1863
3 day battle in Pennsylvania
28,000 Confederate casualties
ended Southern hopes of
winning the war
Gettysburg Address
Speech delivered by Lincoln in a
ceremony to dedicate the field as a
cemetery for the Union dead of the
battle
Gettysburg Address
“Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation,
conceived in Liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. . . .
Gettysburg Address
(continued)
. . . that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have
died in vain—that this nation,
under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom—and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.”
Appomattox Court
House
Village in Virginia where General
Lee surrendered to General Grant,
ending the war on April 9, 1865