U.S. CIVIL WAR

SLAVERY

• 1. Slavery - first and foremost the most important difference between the north and south was slavery. For the most part most northerners really didn't care about slavery in the beginning but as time went on slavery, the existence of it as well as the extension of slavery into the wetern territories, became the central issue.

STATE'S RIGHTS

• States' rights was the justification for nullification and later secession.
• States Rights - This issue is a direct outgrowth of the South's fear that the North would pass laws that would hurt it's lifestyle. Some examples would be tariffs and laws to restrict or abolish slavery. The south again claimed they had the right of nullification.

SECTIONALISM

• Create a conflict because sectionalism increased the number of slaves in the north. And divide to U.S in 3 sections was north, south and west

BATTLE OF SUMTER

• Fort Sumter is most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). U.S.
• Where: South Carolina Winner: Confederates Importance: First battle of the American Civil War The Battle of Fort Sumter was important because it started the bloodiest war in U.S. history, the American Civil War. (1861-1865
• The battle started on April 12,1861 when the Southern troops attacked Fort Sumter with cannons. The Union men where out-gunned, they did not have many supplies left, they could not do much damage to the Southern troops.

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• September 16-18, 1862 The Battle of Antietam forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potomac River. President Abraham Lincoln saw the significance of this and issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
• (Union)George B. McClellan. (The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country)
• (Confederacy)Robert E. Lee. (What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.)

BATTLE AT GETTYSBURG

• The importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was evident at the time of the colossal three-day clash across hills and fields in rural Pennsylvania in July (1-3) 1863. But the significance of Gettysburg actually increased as time passed
• Union won the battle.
• (Union) "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation."
• (Confederacy)

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• The Emancipation Proclamation is arguably one of the top ten most important documents in the history of the United States.
• Abraham Lincoln. But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
• Emancipation Proclamation which declared that all slaves in the Confederate States would be free.

SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

• It's where General Lee surrendered his Confederate army to General Grant of the Union Army 9 April 1865,thus ending the American Civil War.
• General U.S. Grant(every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.)
• General Robert E. Lee . (There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• let us to the end and dare to do our duty as we understand it.
• "all slaves in the Confederate States would be free."

JEFFERSON DAVIS

• "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."

ULYSSES S. GRANT

• "Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."

ROBERT E. LEE

• What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

THOMAS JACKSON

• "The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."

PHILIP BAZAAR

• He's job was in the navy and he receive a medal of the president of U.S.
• He was one of six men who entered the fort in the assault from the fleet.

WILLIAM CARNEY

• he is considered to be the first African American to be granted the Medal of Honor.
• And he was one of the members to enjoy in so many battles. He was so important to the union.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ASSASSINATED

• April 15, 1865, Washington, DC.
• Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated.
• North ( was a bad notice because Abraham Lincoln was president of the union)
• South ( feeling betters and superiors from the north when they kill U.S president)
• The south didn't feel it cloud mourn along with the north .

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