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The American Civil War
1861-1865
The American Civil War
Civil War Cause and Effect
Lincoln-Douglas Debates: 1858
Long Term Causes of the Civil War
Short Term Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War
• Slavery
ECONOMIC
POLITICAL
SOCIAL
BALANCE OF
POWER
• DIPLOMATIC
• MORAL
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An Appeal from Abolitionists
Slave from South to North
Distribution of Slaves, 1790
Distribution of Slaves, 1860
Distribution
of Slaves,
1790 and
1860
The
Internal
Slave
Trade,
1810–1860
Growth of Cotton Production and
the Slave Population, 1790–1860
Value of Cotton Exports as a Percentage
of All U.S. Exports, 1800–1860
Election of 1860: the
Candidates
Abraham Lincoln - Republican
Presidential Candidate: 1860
Abraham
Lincoln
Election of 1860
Map
1860
Election
Electors from South Carolina
were appointed by the State
Legislature not elected by
popular vote
Electoral Vote
180 (59%)
72 (24%)
39 (13%)
12 (4%)
Map © David Leip (2000) - Used
by TAH with Author's Permission
“‘A house divided against itself cannot
stand.’ I believe this government cannot
endure, permanently half slave and half
free. I do not expect the Union to be
dissolved--I do not expect the house to
fall--but I do expect it will cease to be
divided. It will become all one thing, or
all the other.”
A. Lincoln
Charleston Mercury Headline and Handbill : The Union is Dissolved!
Seceding States
Map 14.1 The Process of Secession, 1860–1861
Jefferson Davis:
President of the Confederacy
The Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861 (p. 400)
Figure 14.1 Economies, North and South, 1860 (p. 409)
Opposing
Armies
of the Civil
War
28
Men Present for Duty in the Civil War
Comparative Population and Economic Resources of
the Union and the Confederacy, 1861
30
1861 Springfield Rifle-Musket (p. 410)
Resources: North & South
“Anaconda” Plan
Map 14.3 The Western Campaigns, 1861–1862 (p. 406)
General
Ambrose
Burnside
General
Thomas J.
“Stonewall”
Jackson
(C.S.A.)
Map 14.2 The Eastern Campaigns of 1862 (p. 404)
Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties
Photograph of Antietam
Fields of Death (p. 396)
Painting of Antietam
Lincoln Visits the Army of the Potomac, 1862 (p. 405)
Lincoln and McClellan
The
Emancipation
Proclamation
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (p. 414)
Emancipation in 1863
Emancipation of Slaves in
the Americas
Black Soldiers in the Union Army (p. 418)
General Robert E. Lee (C.S.A)
Map 14.4 Lee Invades the North, 1863 (p. 417)
Map 14.4 Lee Invades the North, 1863 (p. 417)
General
George
Pickett
(C.S.A.)
Map 14.4 Lee Invades the North, 1863 (p. 417)
Grant Planning an Attack (p. 420)
The War in
the West, 1863:
Vicksburg
General Ulysses S. Grant (U.S.A.)
U.S. Grant
Civil War Generals
Grant and Lee
Map 14.5 The Closing Virginia Campaigns, 1864–1865 (p. 421)
CSS Manassas Ironclad
Union Party, 1864
The Peace Movement: Copperheads
Clement Vallandigham
1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
Presidential Election of 1864 (showing
popular vote by county)
William Tecumseh Sherman (p. 422)
William T. Sherman
Map 14.6 Sherman’s March through the Confederacy, 1864–1865 (p. 425)
The War’s Toll on Civilians (p. 412)
Draft Riots and Anti-Black Violence in New York City (p. 408)
Imprisoned Confederate Troops, by Julian Scott (p. 423)
Inflation in the South
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
Map 14.7 The Conquest of the South, 1861–1865 (p. 426)
Extensive Legislation Passed
Without the South in Congress
1861 – Morrill Tariff Act
1862 – Homestead Act
1862 – Legal Tender Act
1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act
1862 – Emancipation Proclamation
(1/1/1863)
1863 – Pacific Railway Act
1863 – National Bank Act
Surrender at Appomattox, VA Courthouse
April 9, 1865
Civil War Fighting
Soldier Group
Clara Barton
Hospital Nursing (p.408)
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
The Assassination