U.S. CIVIL WAR

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

• The burning issue that led to the disruption of the Union was the debate over the future of slavery. This disruption led to secession and secession brought about a war in which northern and western states and territories fought to pr serve the union

State rights refers to the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power in the civil war era this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and wether the federal governments had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery with and individual state

With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln, who ran on a message of containing slavery to where it currently existed, and the success of the Republican Party to which he belonged – the first entirely regional party in US history – in that election, South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860, the first state to ever officially secede from the United States. Four months later, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana seceded as well. Later Virginia (except for its northwestern counties, which broke away and formed the Union-loyal state of West Virginia), Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. The people of the seceded states elected Jefferson Davis as president of the newly formed Southern Confederacy.

BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER

• Located at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
• It was from April 12 – April 13, 1861
• The leader of the Union was Major Robert Anderson and the leader of the confederate was Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
• The number of soldiers was Union: 80 Confederate: 500
• The confederate won

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, 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 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
• The Union had victory

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

• fought July 1–3, 1863, in Gettysburg
• This battle included the most casualties of the entire War and described as the turning point in the war
• The union had victory

BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• The Union won
• The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. I
• The Union had victory
• "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."-Ulysses S. Grant

Emancipation proclamation
ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON JANUARY 1, 1863. 3 MILLION ENSLAVED PERSONS IN THE DESIGNATED AREAS OF THE SOUTH FROM "SLAVE" TO "FREE".

Surrender at Appomattox courthouse

On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant I bet lee felt ashamed

Abe Lincoln was the leader for the North
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.”

Jefferson davis was the leader of the south
"Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty."

General Robert E. Lee was on the south side
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less"

General Ulysses S. Grant was on the north side
"This war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future"

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-63) was a war hero and one of the South’s most successful generals during the American Civil War (1861-65).

Philip Bazaar
carried dispatches during the battle while under heavy fire from the Confederates to Major General Alfred

William carney
He saved the colored men by carrying them while being shot multiple times
He was the first black man to get a U.S Medal of Honor

Assassination of Abe Lincoln
He was killed when he was watching a show a guy pointed a gun at his head then...BOOOOM...dead