This document provides background information on slavery in America and the events leading up to the Civil War. It discusses how over 11 million Africans were shipped to America between the 17th and 19th centuries, with high mortality rates. It also outlines that Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US President in 1860 on an anti-slavery platform, leading southern states to secede and the Civil War to begin in 1861. After over four years of fighting between the Union and Confederate states, the Union emerged victorious and slavery was abolished, though Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war ended.

1. Civil War
Introduction Lesson
By: Cynthia Esquer

2. Background of Slavery
• About 11,863,000 Africans were shipped
across the Atlantic. Only about 10-20
percent of them survived.
• The first slave was brought into the United
States in 1619. The location was
Jamestown Virginia.
• The institution of slavery was legal between
the 17th and 19th century
• Because of the hard conditions slaves lived
in, they were prone to many deadly
diseases and the infant mortality was
double that of a white baby.

3. Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky
• Had little schooling, but he was able to teach himself to read and write
• In 1830, Lincoln and his family moved to Illinois
• In 1832, he began his political career
• Ran for Illinois general assembly
• In 1836, he began to practice law
• Was in Congress from 1847-1849

4. Lincoln Runs For President
• After being absent from politics he came back and was caught up in the what is known today as the Lincoln-
Douglas debates. The debates were over slavery.
• In the debates, Lincoln was against slavery and Stephen A. Douglas was pro slavery.
• 1856 he becomes a Republican and separates himself from the Whig party because of their opposing views on
slavery.
• Two years later he is nominated for the senatorial race in Illinois. He was to go against Douglas, but lost to him.
That did not matter because he left such an impact that he gained many followers.
• In 1960, Lincoln receives his nomination for President.
• November 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president.

5. War Breaks Out
• Started April 12, 1861
• After Abraham Lincoln wins president, southern states took it as a threat to keep their slaves and proceeded to
secede from the United States and declared war.
• The country was split in half, the southern states and northern states
• Southern states were known as the Confederate
• Northern states were known as the Union
• The president for the Confederate states was Jefferson Davis. The president for the Union was Abraham Lincoln
• The general of the Confederate army was Robert E. Lee. The general for the Union was Ulysses S. Grant

6. Aftermath
• The Union ended up winning against the Confederate states
• The war lasted 4 years, 3 weeks and 6 days.
• The Union lost a total of 365,000 people, and the Confederates lost 260,000 people
• Resulted in the abolishment of slavery
• Confederates reintegrated with the United States
• Lincoln was assassinated 5 days after the surrender of Lee
• The Reconstruction era begins

7. Bibliography
• http://civilwarunitlrc320.blogspot.com/
• http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-
slavery
• http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
• http://www.negroartist.com/Capture%20of%20Slaves/images/Slave%20Coffle,%2019th%20cent_jpg.jpg
• http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/lincoln-hub/lincoln-ten-facts/images/young-lincoln.jpg
• http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/files/2010/11/1860RepublicanTicket-300x226.jpg
• http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Election1860Cover-001.jpg
• http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/american-civil-war.jpg
• http://jessewoodsonjames.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/0/8/12083819/116857619_orig.jpg