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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