2. 1. Taxes on imported goods (North tried to
make them as high as possible to
protect its industry, the South wanted to
trade freely with the world).
2. Problems around slavery (can we count
runaway slaves as free people in free
states, should punish people who
providing them with shelter, can
southern states forbid in its territory free
blacks, etc.).
3. The situation was not static: U.S.
exciting new territory, and there were
disputes regarding the constitution of
each of the future state in the first place
- there is a new free or slave state. The
coming to power of Lincoln, declared
that all new states would be free, meant
for the southern states remain in a
minority perspective in the future play in
Congress on all contentious issues
North.
3. Union - President: Abraham Lincoln
General: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy – President: Jefferson Davis
General: Robert E. Lee
5. 1. The South seceded the Union
2. Confederate Forces attacked Federal Fort
3. President Lincoln called on Volunteers to put
down the southern rebellion
6. The First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)
Confederate General Joseph E.
Johnston (1807-1891)
Confederate General Thomas J.
Jackson (1824-1863) ("Stonewall“)
7. 1. North hoped for a quick victory,
wanted to capture RichmondConfederate Capital
2. Confederate troops defeated the
Union and forced them to retreat
3. North realized that t wouldn’t be
ninety-day war
Battlefield of Bull Run
Rebel Yell and Stone Wall Jackson
8. General War Order Number 1
Lincoln had grown weary with excuses and
delays and he was now demanding action.
He thought it crucial that the Confederacy
be attacked hard
at different points
simultaneously. Attacks occurring at the
same time would prevent the Confederates
making use of their shorter interior lines to
reinforce stressed locations. Since the Battle
of Bull Run six months earlier, Union forces
had made nothing but disjointed and
ineffective probes at the Confederate lines.
9. General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Accept Union offensive
General George B. McClellan (18261885) ignored the order.
10. Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, Maryland)
1. Bloodiest single day of war
2. 25000 soldiers wounded or killed
3. Confederate retreated back to Virginia
(Lee)
4. McClellan was cautious and Union didn’t
pursue Confederate Forces
11. Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation
from a position of strength.
The Emancipation Proclamation is signed.
1. Lincoln used the Victory at Antietam to
announce the Emancipation
Proclamation
2. This Proclamation ENDED SLAVERY
by the end of the year
12. The Battle of Gettysburg.
1. Union forces meet in a
small little Village of
Gettysburg.
2. Union attacked the
Confederate forces, lasted
3 days
3. Turning point- Lee’s army
never was able to go on
offensive against the North
4. Confederate lost 28000
Union lost 23000
5. President Lincoln gave his
famous Gattysburg Adress
(2 min Adress honoring all
Soldiers that fell at
Gattysburg)
13. Battle of Vicksburg
1. July 4, 1863, the day the fighting
ended at Gettysburg
2. Union General-Ulysses S. Grant
captured Vicksburg, the last
remaining confederate Stronghold
on the Mississipi- Cutting the
Confederacy into two. Cut off their
supply route. Confederation
surrendered after a month and a
half.
16. Sherman’s March to the sea
1. Grant ordered William Sherman to
capture Atlanta, Georgia
2. Georgia- the industrial Center of
Confederacy
3. He ordered factories/ railroads to be
burned
4. Destruction occurred
5. Helped Lincoln get reelected
17. Surrender of Confederation
1. April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union (capital of the Confederacy)
2. Lee surrendered to Grand at Appomattox Courthouse, Virgina
3. Jefferson Davis wanted to continue the fight, but Lee sent his soldiers home
18. While watching a comedy at Ford's Theatre, Lincoln
is shot and mortally wounded by the actor John
Wilkes Booth, a southern patriot.
He was the first American president to be
assassinate
19. 1. Prohibition of slavery was enshrined 13th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which came
into force on December 18, 1865.
2. The country has created the conditions for
accelerated development of industrial and
agricultural production, development of the western
lands, strengthening the domestic market.
Authority in the country passed to the bourgeoisie
northeastern states. War does not solve all the
problems facing the country. Some of them have
found a solution in the Reconstruction of the South,
which lasted until 1877. Others, including the
provision of black population equal rights with
whites, remained unresolved for decades.
3. The Civil War was the bloodiest war in the
history of the United States (on all fronts of the
Second World War, despite its worldwide scope
and destructiveness of weapons of XX century,
Americans were losing less).
21. Albert S. Johnston (18031862)
John Pope
(1822-1892)
James Longstreet (18211904)
Henry W. Halleck
(1815-1872)
General Burnside
(1824-1881)
22. Joseph Hooker (1814—
1879)
William Rosencrans
(1819-1898)
Jubal Early
(1816-1894)
George H.
Thomas
(1816-1870)
George Meade (18151872)
Braxton Bragg (18171876)
