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- 1. Civil War 10-11 TheCivil War (1861-1865)
- 2. Civil War 08-09 Section1 Overview • Compares the North's and South's advantages and disadvantages at the start of the War.
- 3. Civil War 08-09 Eventsleading to the Secession Sectional Issues – Missouri Compromise 1820 – Gag Rule of 1836 – Land from the Mexican War •Wilmot Proviso – Compromise of 1850 – Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 – Dred Scott Decision 1857 – John Brown et al.
- 4. Civil War 08-09 AbrahamLincoln was sworn in as president of the United States on March 20, 1861. It depicts a drunken President-elect Lincoln, inappropriately wisecracking with his cronies, while the funeral procession for the Union and the Constitution pass in the background.
- 5. Civil War 08-09 ImmediateCauses • Failure of Compromise • Active Secessionists
- 6. Civil War 08-09 TheProcess of Secession
- 7. Civil War 08-09 Comparison UnionAdvantages – Population – Industrial Capacity – Superior Transportation – Military Forces Confederate Advantages – Emotional edge – Better officers and soldiers
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- 12. Civil War 08-09 SouthernDisadvantages – No major facilities to make gunpowder – Limited distribution of food
- 13. Civil War 08-09 ConfederatePowder Works • Augusta, GA • The only permanent structure built by the CSA • 1862-1865 • Produced about 7,000 pounds of gunpowder per day • (2,750,000 pounds total)
- 14. Civil War 08-09 Financingthe War • North controlled the national treasury – Major withdraws for the northern banks • Legal Tender Act 1862 – Created a national currency – Allowed the government to issue paper money •greenbacks
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- 16. Civil War 19-20 Financingthe War •Confederacy – Few cash reserves – Tax trade – blocked – direct tax – Printing money leads to inflation
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- 18. Civil War 08-09 warbonds
- 19. Civil War 08-09 Financingthe War
- 20. Civil War 08-09 PartyPolitics • Division with the Republicans – Abolish Slavery vs. preserving the Union • Northern Democrats – War Democrats •Supportive of military efforts to maintain the Union – Peace Democrats (Copperheads) •Military means were not justified.
- 21. Civil War 08-09 Copperpennies bearing the head of the goddess Liberty.
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- 24. Conscription • Was nogeneral military draft in America until the Civil War. • A way to sustain an effective army Civil War 08-09
- 25. Conscription • Considered an infringementon personal liberty • Volunteer soldiers despised conscripts, undercut morale • NYC Draft riots (1863) Civil War 08-09
- 26. Civil War 08-09 SouthernGovernment • States rights vs. limited central power
- 27. Civil War 08-09 AlexanderStevensJefferson Davis Southern Government
- 28. Civil War 08-09 ConfederateWhite House
- 29. Civil War 08-09 ConfederateWhite House
- 30. Civil War 08-09 DiplomaticChallenges Union • No European intervention • No recognition of the confederacy • Respect the blockade Confederacy • Wanted recognition from Eng • Europe to declare the blockade illegal • Help in the struggle
- 31. Civil War 08-09 FirstModern War • Involved huge armies of volunteers needing lots of supplies • Officers fought in the Mexican War
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- 33. Civil War 08-09 Confederatefortifications
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- 36. Civil War 19-20 SouthernStrategy • Avoid large battles • Defensive war of attrition – a strategy of winning by not losing – wearing out a better equipped foe – compelling him to give up by prolonging the war and making it too costly.
- 37. Civil War 19-20 UnionAnaconda Strategy • Winfield Scott
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- 39. Civil War 19-20 UnionAnaconda Strategy • Blockade Southern ports on the Atlantic • Isolate the Confederacy from European aid and trade • Cut off flow of supplies, money, food and cotton • Exhaust Southern resources forcing surrender • Control the MS with Union gunboats • Divide the eastern part of the Confederacy from the west • Capture New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis • Cut of shipping to and from the interior