CIVIL WAR

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

• Sectionalism-
• Northerners focused on fast-paced business and industry, spending their days manufacturing, shipping, and trading goods. By contract, the Southern economy relied on slow and steady agricultural growth. Planting and picking crops was the work of slaves who supported plantation owners' with their labor.

causes of the civil war:
State's rights
When the original 13 independent colonies announced their independence from Great Britain in 1776 they regarded themselves as sovereign (independent) states. The demands of the Revolutionary War forced the states to recognize a need for a central government. The Continental Congress established Articles of Confederation, an agreement that created a weak central government. In the years following the Revolutionary War, individual states created their own laws, attempted to make foreign treaties on their own, etc. Europe saw the young United States as weak

SLAVERY

• In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement began in the north and the country began to divide over the issue between North and South. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise banned slavery in all new western territories, which Southern states saw as a threat to the institution of slavery itself. In 1857, the Supreme Court decision known as the Dred Scott Decision said that Negroes (the term then used to describe the African race) were not citizens and had no rights of citizenship; therefore, slaves that escaped to free states where not free but remained the property of their owners and must be returned to them. The decision antagonized many Northerners and breathed new life into the floundering Abolition Movement.

SLAVERY

• The election of Abraham Lincoln, a member of the anti-slavery Republican Party, to the presidency in 1860 convinced many Southerners that slavery would never be permitted to expand into new territories acquired by the US and might ultimately be abolished. Eleven Southern states attempted to secede from the Union, precipitating the Civil War.

BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER

• The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
• confederate victory
• quote (south)- "" this is a big victory for us, we have defeated the north""
• quote(north)- ""

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717.
• union victory!
• Quote(south-confederacy)"we are disappointed to say we have been defeated by the union"
• Quote(north-union)"we won! We had a major victory on our own union soil"

battle at Gettysburg:The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. turning point if the civil war for the north.

BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• In May and June of 1863, This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half.
• decisive Union victory

EMANCIPATION PROCLEMATION

SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

PRESIDENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR

• north
• Abraham Lincoln
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PRESIDENTS OF THE WAR

• South
• Jefferson Davis

GENERALS OF THE CIVIL WAR

• U.S. Grant
• North

THAMAS "STONEWALL" JACKSON

PHILIP BAZAAR

WILLIAM CARNEY

ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.