1. The American Civil War

2. American
independence in
1783 with the
Treaty of Paris

3. Taxes in Slavery in
Lincoln
the the War
president
North South
1854 : the Republican Party was born
1860 : Lincoln won the election
February 1861 : a new independent state, the Confederate States with
Jefferson Davis

4. Union CSA
Total population 22,100,000 (71%) 9,100,000 (29%)
Slave population, 1860 400,000 3,500,000
Soldiers 2,100,000 (67%) 1,064,000 (33%)
Manufactured items 90% 10%
Bales of cotton in 1860 Negligible 4,500,000
Bales of cotton in 1864 Negligible 300,000

5. 12 April 1861 : Confederate artillery fires at Fort Sumter near Charleston

6. 11 states inhabited 23 states inhabited
by 9 million people by 25 million
(South) people (North)

7. 1 April 1865 : Battle of Five Forks that forced Lee to evacuate Richmond-
Petersburg, the Confederate capital.

8. 1865 : Defeat at Sayler Creek, it became clear to Robert Lee that the fight
against the Union is tactically and logistically impossible!

9. In 1865, slavery is Birth of Protestant
In 1807, the
abolished by the supremacist
abolition of the
thirteenth groups like the Ku
slave trade.
amendment . Klux Klan, …

10. Questions
1- What was the central source of tension in the 1850’s?
2- Who were the opponents?
3- Which event marked the beginning of the war ?
4- When did the war begin?
5- Who was the American president?
6- Who was the Confederate (southern) army's leader?
7- When did it end?
8- When have slavery been abolished?
9- What has happening, then?
10- Had Blacks and whites the same rights?