Download ANTICIPATION GUIDE: The Antebellum Period through the Civil War

ANTICIPATION GUIDE: The Antebellum Period through the Civil War
Chapter 7 (section 2 pages 215-227, section 4 pg. 237-244, sect. 5 pg. 245-249)) –
Chapter 8 (section 1 pg. 257-365, section 2 pg. 266-276)
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The word antebellum refers to the period of
time before the Civil War
Southern states wanted high tariffs (taxes) in
order to keep out competition from foreign
countries
The northern states were stronger supporters of
states’ rights than southern states
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to
claim all lands west of the Mississippi River
The Georgia Platform (political party)
supported the Compromise of 1850, which said
that any new states joining the United States
could choose whether they wished to have
slaves or not.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed slave
owners to bring slavery to these two new states
as property, and for the purposes of
representation in Congress.
In the Supreme Court case of 1857, Dred Scott
sued his owner for freedom, and won.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 by
an overwhelming majority of votes in both the
North and South
Alexander H. Stephens, U.S. Congressman
from Georgia, encouraged the state to stay a
part of the United States after Lincoln was
elected president in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln and many political leaders in
the North believed that secession was illegal
and unconstitutional.
In February 1861, delegates from the seven
states that had seceded met in Montgomery,
Alabama to form a new country and
government called the Confederate States of
America.
Jefferson Davis was elected president of the
Confederacy, and Georgia’s Alexander
Stephens was elected vice president.
In terms of actual fighting, the Civil War began
on April 12, 1861, when Union forces at Fort
Sumter opened fire on Confederate forces
guarding Charleston, S.C.
The bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred at
the Battle of Antietam, fought in Maryland in
1862.
The Emancipation Proclamation declared that
on January 1, 1863, all slavery would be
abolished in the United States.
One important consequence of the
Emancipation Proclamation was to change the
Civil War from a war just to save the union to a
war also to free slaves.
In the early years of the Civil War, the main
Union military strategy with respect to Georgia
was a naval blockade of Georgia’s coast.
The first major battle of the Civil War in
Georgia was a Confederate victory at
Chickamauga in September, 1863.
General William T. Sherman’s Atlanta
Campaign began in early 1864 when his forces
marched out of Chattanooga south into Georgia
to confront a Confederate Army under General
Joseph E. Johnston.
Sherman wanted to capture Atlanta because it
was the capital of Georgia.
Andersonville was a Confederate prison that
held Union prisoners
Most of the Union prisoners who died at
Andersonville Prison were executed as spies.
One of the main goals of General William
Sherman during his March to the Sea in 1864
was to free slaves along the way.
Sherman’s March to the Sea ended with the
capture of Savannah in December 1864
Although fighting continued elsewhere, the
surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General
Ulysses S .Grant at Appomattox Court House
in Virginia on April 9, 1865, ended the Civil
War.