CIVIL WAR

FORT SUMTER

• Abraham Lincoln now took office for the 7 southern states of america .
• People started attacking arsenals.
• Fort Sumter was the main target, it was federal arsenals in the south.

BATTLE OF BULL RUN

• The battle of bull run was the biggest battle of the civil war.
• This major battle completely destroyed the North's chances of winning.

THE BATTLE OF ANTETAM

• This battle was the bloodiest battle in a single day.
• This battle had more deaths than the Mexican and American revolution.
• Lees northward had been stopped.

BORDER STATES

• More states started joining the confederacy (4).
• And some border states joined the decided to stay in the union with Winfield Scott.

COTTON DIPLOMACY

• The south used cash crops, they maid cotton for a living.
• The south thought that the British would help the south because that's were they get their cotton.
• But the British said I will get my cotton somewhere else's.
• And the south had now real good defensive system.

WINFIELD SCOTT

• Winfield Scott had a really good plan to concer the south.
• He thought he would destroy their economic union with a navel blockade.
• He wanted to control the Mississippi

THE BATTLE OF SHILOH

• The union troops Gained control on the Mississippi River.
• It was easy to ship goods and troops over water than land.

SIEGE OF VICKSBURG

• This battle took more than 6 weeks.
• The confederacy starved the union into retreating.
• The confederacy wait it out and won.

PROBLEM TO THE SOUTH.YQ

• Abraham Lincoln declared that all slave mush be let free.
• Some of the south did not Liston and still kept their slaves.
• This really her the south in many was like takeing out their cash crops.