Carefully read pages 510-515
of your textbook.
 You are a college student in Charleston, South Carolina
in early 1861. Seven southern states have left the Union
and formed their own government. All-out war seems
unavoidable. Your friends have begun to volunteer for
either the Union army or the Confederate forces. You
are torn between loyalty to your home state and to the
United States.
 Would you join the Union or the Confederate army?
 Give at least 2 reasons and support your decision with
facts from your reading.
 Fort Sumter – federal outpost in Charleston, South
Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops,
beginning the Civil War.
 Border States – slave states that stayed in the Union:
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri.
 Winfield Scott – commanded U.S. army at the outset
of the Civil War and developed the 3-part strategy for
the North called the “Anaconda” plan.
 Cotton Diplomacy – idea that Great Britain & France
would support the Confederate due to their need for
cotton to supply the textile industry.
 Inaugurated on March 4,
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1861.
Encouraged
Constitutional
Amendments for slavery.
Condemned the
Southern right to secede.
Vowed to protect Federal
property.
Promised to not attack
the South first.
Northern Resources
Southern Resources
 Population – 22 million
 Population – 9 million*
 22,000 miles of rail
 9,000 miles of rail
 Industry and agriculture
 Union blockade limits
expand to support the
war.
 Stable economic system.
Confederate imports and
exports .
 Devalued money hurts
economy .
 Developed economy
 Banking systems
 Currency – “greenbacks”
Union Advantages
Confederate Advantages
 90% of all
 Strong military tradition
manufacturing is in the
North
 # of soldiers
 Navy – blockade
 Abraham Lincoln
 Good military leadership
 Fight defensive war
 Familiar with areas
 Foreign simpathy
Union
 List two
advantages of the
Union.
Confederacy
 List two
advantages of the
Confederacy.
 “Anaconda” plan
 Naval blockade of southern ports
 Control of Mississippi River.
 Plan will take time
 Union must increase Navy
 Confederacy still able to import/export early in plan’s
implementation.
Describe the 3 parts of the
“Anaconda” plan.
Describe the Confederate
war strategy.
Volunteer Armies
 Secession breaks apart
the Federal Army.
 Both sides call for
thousands of volunteers.
 Union – restoration of
the country.
 Confederacy – defend
homes.
Role of Women
 Enlisted in the Armies.
 Sanitation Commision
 Nursing
 Spies
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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of
the United States.
In his inaugural address, Lincoln promised to end
slavery all over the South.
Fort Sumter, a federal outpost in Charleston, SC, was
attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil
War.
Wedged between the North and the South were the
key border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland
and Missouri.
Cotton diplomacy was the idea that France would
support the Confederacy because it needed the
South’s raw cotton supply.
 Read pages 510-515 of the handout “The War Begins”.
 On a separate piece of notebook paper, use complete
sentences to answer questions #1-3 on page 515.