Main Dish

Economic Disparity

• North
• Economy: Banking, shipping, insurance, business
• Population: 22 mil
• 92% of industry
• 71% of railroads
• 34% of us exports
• South
• Economy; Plantation agriculture and subsistence farming
• Population; 6 mil
• 8% of industry
• 29% railroads
• 66% of us exports

War time strategies: N vs S

• 1861-1865
• South had homeland advantage
• south had good leadership
• North had better equipment
• North plan was to economically drain the South with the Anaconda Plan

Union Blockade

• April 1861–1865
• The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
• the Confederacy could not export raw materials such as cotton, nor could it import war supplies.
• The blockade was largely successful in reducing 95% of cotton export in the South from pre-war levels

Fort Sumter

• Apr 12-14, 1861
• freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage.
• A Federal fort located in Charleston, south Carolina, where the first shots of the civil war were fired
• Death of more than 620,000 Americans

Writ of Habeas Corups

• April 1861
• Law that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody

Antietam

• Sept 17, 1862
• The deadliest one-day battle in America history
• showed that the union could stand against the confederate army in the Eastern theater
• Gave president Lincoln the confidence to issues the preliminary Emancipation proclamation at a moment of strength rather than desperation

Emancipation proclamation

• Jan 1, 1863
• Made by Abraham Lincoln
• An executive order that freed all enslaved people in confederate territories; didn't free slaves in the border
• Goal preserve the union" and abolish slavery

Vicksburg

• May 18, 1863
• A confederate stronghold along the Mississippi river, the site of a siege by union forces that lasted more than a month and ended in a union victory, splitting the confederacy i two
• Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and controlled the higher ground; he achieved one of the Union's goals in the west

Gettysburg

• July 1-3, 1863
• The site of a civil war battle fought on union territory resulting in a union victory that forced confederate forces to retreat to the south
• Lincoln made a speech called "Gettysburg address" it was to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg also gave Lincoln's purpose for pushing on to win the civil war the abolition of slavery and the reunification of the union

Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

• May 7, 1864
• Atlanta Campaign Sherman's goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines.
• They destroyed anything and everything important to the war effort, leaving ruins where Georgia's great cities once stood.
• led to President Abraham Lincoln's re-election two months later, and setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea.

Sherman's march to the sea

• Nov 15, 1864
• Joined forces with General Grant to lay siege to Vicksburg in 1863 following their victory, Sherman led his "March to the sea" 250 miles east to Capture Savannah Georgia.