An examination of the causes and effects of the war with emphasis of the strengths of both sides.

1. Causes and Effects of
the Civil War
Created by:
Josiah Gin
Period D

2. About the Civil WarAbout the Civil War
 War that was fought between the North and South
 War in which Americans fought fellow Americans
 Devastated economy of the South while contributing to the rapid
economic growth of the North and the West.
 Many African Americans gained their rightful freedom.
 Slavery was abolished after the war.
 The war left bitterness between the North and the South for many
generations.
 The war established the power of the federal government over the
states.
 Many people celebrated after the abolition of slavery.

3. Before the Civil War (Northern)
Advantages
 The North had many strengths as well as many
weaknesses.
 They enjoyed their larger population to support the war
effort, more industry, and more abundant resources.
 They had better banking systems which helped raise
money for the war.
 The North had a larger and more efficient railway network.
 Abraham Lincoln led the North in the war.

4. Before the Civil War (Northern cont’d)
Disadvantages
 They had to bring the Southern states back into the Union.
 The North would have to invade and hold the South, which
was a large area filled with a hostile population.
 Not many people believed that the North had much chance
against the South.
 The North had the leadership, but did not have the right
strategies to win in the early stages of the war. Meaning
that they would probably lost eh first couple of battles.

5. Before the Civil War (Southern)
Advantages
 The strong support its white population gave the war
was a plus.
 They were fighting in familiar territory.
 Their military leadership was superior to the North’s.
 Southerners had a strong tradition of military training
and service, and military college graduates provided
the South with a large pool of officers.
 President Jefferson Davis was overseeing the South.

6. Before the Civil War (Southern cont’d)
Disadvantages
 They had a smaller population of free men to draw upon in
building an army.
 They possessed only a few factories to manufacture
weapons and other supplies needed for war.
 The South had very few railroad tracks and vastly fewer
trains than the North.
 The individual states refused to give the Confederate
government enough power to fight the war effectively.

7. What led to the Civil War?
 Problems with slavery between the North and the South.
 The North did not want slavery in the United States.
 The South wanted to get African Americans to work for them
and pick cotton in their fields.
 Their disagreements were partly why the Civil War occurred.
 They had conflicts on whether slavery should be enforced or
abolished.
 The Federal government proved itself supreme over the states.
Essentially this war over states rights and federalism and the
victor was the power of the national government.

8. During the War
 The first battle took place in Fort Sumpter. The battle was
called the battle at Fort Sumpter.
 It started off with about 30,000 inexperienced Union
troops, who launched an attack on a slightly smaller
Confederate force.
 Many men were killed by the end of the war.
 The Confederates kept on launching surprise attacks on the
Union forces.
 Even though the women were not permitted to fight in the
war, they helped in many other ways. They aided the
wounded soldiers and sometimes even cooked food.

9. During the War (cont’d)
 The Unions also surprised the Confederates with many attacks.
 The North had many early victories to start off the war.
 Even though they lost in the Battle of Shiloh, the North
somehow came up with plans to fight against the rough
Southerners.
 During the war, the economy of the South suffered far more
than that of the North. That is because most fighting had
occurred in the South. Southern farmlands have been overrun
and rail lines were torn up by the many battles fought.
 The North’s blockade of Southern posts caused severe shortages
of essential goods.
 Inflation was much worse for the South than that of the North.

10. During the War (cont’d)
 The North had much help from the slaves that were slaves for
the South. They fought with the North to try to help end slavery
in the United States.
 The majority of the time, soldiers lived in camps and the camp
life had its pleasant moments of songs, stories, letters from
home, and baseball games.
 Both sides needed more soldiers, so they immediately drafted
many men into the army. There were many protests against the
drafts that were made, especially by those who have gave up a
son or a husband at an immediate call.
 The South was in ruins because most of the biggest battles were
in the south because the south played defense and the north
played offense except at the battle of Gettysburg. That was the
only battle that the South attacked and the North defended.

11. During the War (cont’d)
 The North saw a big gap in their battle strategies for a long while. In
that long while, the South took advantage and attacked while the
North was still planning on what to do.
 The Battle of Gettysburg lasted three entire days when the Union
Calvary surprised Rebel infantry raiding the town for shoes.
 The Northerners were outnumbered, but they fought desperately to
hold the town before retreating to Cemetery Ridge, a line of hills south
of Gettysburg.
 This battle was the turning point in the Civil War.
 Lincoln gave a short two-minute speech, which was known as the
Gettysburg Address. He expressed what the war had meant to him.
 Finally, the South gave in, knowing very well that they had no chance
whatsoever to defeat the North. They surrendered at Appomattox.
 The North celebrated and now the slaves are free from their debts and
are just like any other person.

12. Major Effects of the Civil War
 In the long run, everyone was better off living life without having
slaves or being a slave.
 We don’t have to deal with slaves, since everyone has the freedom not
to be one.
 An effect of the Civil War was that inflation decreased and after that,
money wasn’t worth as much as it was before.
 The South was placed under military rule and moved into districts and
they had to reapply into the Union. The nation was reunited and the
southern states were not able to secede.
 Some effects of the Civil War weren’t just economically, but personal
too. Some soldiers didn’t know what to expect when they got home to
their families, and to see how disappointed their families were.

13. Major Effects of the Civil War (cont’d)
 The Civil war’s end releases over 35,000,000 African Americans into
hostile competitive world, for which they have not prepared.
 The Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution is amended three times to
assist to their transition into the citizenry, the 13th
amendment abolishes
slavery. The 14th
amendment gives them civil-rights, and the 15th
amendment gives them the right to vote.
 Slavery ended rather quickly. While slavery was not officially
outlawed until the passage of the 13th
amendment, the slaves were set
free upon the end of the war.
 Many African Americans lives were changed and now the African
Americans are happy that they don’t have to live a life under some
stranger that pays them almost nothing to help support their families.

14. Major Effects of the Civil War (cont’d)
 A lot of families that lost someone special to them during
the war had to start to rebuild their life from scratch. It
was not easy, but tough.
 The war also caused 280,000 confederate soldiers their
lives, and that made the population of the Union drop.
 Even today in the present life, people are still mad about
the choices that Lincoln made, and how it was dealt with.
 Buildings and homes were burned, railroad tracks were
destroyed, cotton gins were wrecked, and land was
torched, all because of the war.