THE CIVIL WAR

UNION ECONOMY

• Relied on factories
• Industrialized
• Large railroad system
• Superior banks

CONFEDERATE ECONOMY

• Agriculture
• Based off slave labor
• Cotton was a huge part
• Weak banks

UNION PROS

• Much larger population
• More railroads than south
• More raw resources

UNION CONS

• Harder to invade than to defend
• Purchased own food instead of hunting
• supplies were delayed they had no food

CONFEDERATE PROS

• Very experienced good leaders
• Had a reason to fight
• Defending instead of attacking

CONFEDERATE CONS

• Outnumbered in most battles
• Not nearly as many factories

UNION LEADERS

• President Lincoln
• General Ulysses S. Grant

CONFEDERATE LEADERS

• Jefferson Davis southern president
• General Robert E.Lee

UNION GOVERNMENT

• Abraham Lincoln
• President of the United States
• Head of the union
• Gov based of constitution

CONFEDERATE GOV

• Jefferson Davis
• Confederacy president
• Independent government

MAJOR UNION W'S

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

• Gave major sea support
• Closer to southern forts
• Mortars were used
• Admiral Farragut lead
• No ship could pass

BATTLE OF ATLANTA

• Suppose to end war
• Sherman flanked and obtained base
• Most troops the general ever fought with
• 100,000 troops General Sherman lead them
• On May 5 1864

CONFEDERATE W'S

FORT SUMTER

• Started the war
• One causality
• A cannon backfired on union soldier
• Jefferson Davis gave the command
• Wanted a peaceful drive out

CHANCELLORSVILLE

• Flanked Joseph hooker
• Stonewall Jackson was killed
• Made people have no hope
• Attack from behind on march 2nd
• Jackson died from a mistake

SIZE OF UNION

• 20 free states
• 5 bordering slave states
• They claimed secession later
• California Nevada Oregon Illinois

CONFEDERATE SIZE

• 10 slaves states
• South Carolina Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia
• Texas Virginia Arkansas North Carolina
• Missouri Kentucky West Virginia Tennessee

MAJOR LAWS ANS SPEECHES

• Emancipation proclamation
• 13th amendment
• Gettysburg address
• General Lees surrender speech

GEOGRAPHY

• South was all farm land
• North had cities developing
• Freed slaves in areas of rebellion
• South made it hard for north to attack

SOLDIERS

• Average age was 20
• Armed with a flint lock rifle
• Carried a blanket canteen
• A tin cup and a small frying pan

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