U.S. CiVIL WAR

SLAVERY

• Slavery This law stated that runway slave could be captured and sold back into slavery. Some free African Americans were also captured and sold into slavery

STATE'S RIGHTS

• Kansas -Nebraska Act
• This act allowed all new territories to vote to be a free or slave holding state

SECTIONALISM

• Creation of Republican Party
• The proceeding events had separated north and south
• The Republican Party formed against their democrats to "over throw the slave power"

BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER

• The opening shots of the civil war with confederate troops
• The union surrendered
• "Our Southern brethren have done grievously; they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart."
• "The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen...you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal."

BATTLE OF ANTIENTAM

• Also known as battle of Sharpsburg
• Was the first major battle of the civil war
• The north took victory of the battle of Antietam
• "Another day's march brought us to Hagerstown where the cornfields and orchards furnished our meals. The situation, in a sanitary point, was deplorable. Hardly a soldier had a whole pair of shoes. Many were absolutely bare-footed, and refused to go to the rear. The ambulances were filled with the foot-sore and sick."
• "On the forenoon of the 15th, the blue uniforms of the Federals appeared among the trees that crowned the heights on the eastern bank of the Antietam. The number increased, and larger and larger grew the field of the blue until it seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, and from the tops of the mountains down to the edges of the stream gathered the great army of McClellan."

BATTLE AT GETTYSBURG

• Bloodiest battle in the American civil war
• The north won the battle at Gettysburg
• His army stopped at the flooded Potomac river
• "I shall carry with me to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration, & your name & fame will always be dear to me. Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword."
• "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."

BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• In May and June of 1863 maj gen and Ulysses s grants armies converged at vicksburg
• Vicksburg surrendered July 4th
• "Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until the key is in our pocket?.
• It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• A presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln
• Led the way to total abolition of Slavery in the U.S.

SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

• April 9th 1865
• Confederate troops surrounded by the union troops
• General Lee surrendered his remaining troops to General Grant at the McLean House on the afternoon of April 9
• He surrendered because he didn't want to sacrifice the lives of his soldiers

PRESIDENTS OF THE NORTH

• President of the union was Abraham Lincoln
• "The will of God prevails.in great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God.Both may be, and one must be, wrong"
• "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all the one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, north as well as south

PRESIDENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR

• President of the confederate was Jefferson davis
• "Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that eac

GENERALS OF THE U.S CIVIL WARS

• The general of the Union was Ulysses S Grant
• "As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects. Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law, international and local."

GENERALS OF THE U.S. CIVIL WAR

• The general of the confederacy was 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."

OTHER MAN IN THE CIVIL WAR

• The one of the three men in the civil war is Thomas "sronewall" Jackson

OTHER MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR

• The second man in the civil war was Philip Bazaar
• Philip Bazaar was an immigrant
• He was awarded the congressional medal in 1865

OTHER MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR

• The third man in the civil war was William carney
• He was an African American soldier
• He is the first African American considered to be given the Medal of Honor

ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• Assassinated in April 15,1865
• Killed by john Wilkes booth a famous actor
• “Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.”
• He was shot at ford's theatre