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Chapter 22: The Civil War

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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Chapter 22: The Civil War(Part 1)

By: Kaylie Dickerson

Main Goal of The Union

  • Aug. 22, 1862: President Lincoln told a New York newspaper that preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War — not abolishing slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it," Lincoln said.
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Southern States that seceded from The Union

  • South Carolina was the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them.
  • To form a new nation called the Confederate States of America.
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Confederate Capital

  • The Confederate capital was moved from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia, in May 1861.
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Northern soldiers

  • Northern Soldiers were called the Yanks or Yankees.
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Southern Soldiers

  • Southern Soldiers were called Butternut, reb or rebs, secesh, grayback.

Border States

  • The residents of the border were torn between their close cultural ties with the ... In none of the border states did slavery approach the importance it had in the Deep .... Lincoln unquestionably would have used force to keep the state in the Union.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the North

  • (Advantage) Had almost 4 times as many free citizens.
  • (Advantage) Had many people to grow food and to work in factories making supplies.
  • (Disadvantage) Northern soldiers had to conquer a huge area to bring the South back into the Union.
  • (Disadvantage) They were invading unfamiliar land
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the South

  • (Advantage) Defending their homeland gave them a strong reason to fight.
  • (Advantage) Had skills that made them good soldiers
  • (Disadvantage) Had few factories to produce weapons, railroad tracts, and other supplies
  • (Disadvantage) Had few railroads to move troops and vital supplies
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