Warm-up for 01.11.12
1. Is the Union war strategy you
looked at yesterday, a political or
military strategy?
2. Is the Confederate war strategy a
political or military strategy?
WAR STRATEGY:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (THE UNION)
PICTURE 1
PICTURE 2
WAR STRATEGY:
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (THE CONFEDERACY)
PICTURE 1
PICTURE 2
PICTURE 3
Civi War Unit Standard
SS8H6.b - State the importance of key
events of the Civil War; include Antietam,
Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg,
Chickamauga, the Union blockade of
Georgia's coast, Sherman's Atlanta
Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea,
and Andersonville.
Name ______________________ Date________ Per ____
Civil War: Strategies of the Union and Confederacy
SS8H6.b - State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, Emancipation
Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia's coast, Sherman's Atlanta
Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Andersonville.
THE UNION
1. Name of the Strategy used by the Union:
___________________________________
2. Was it a Political or Military Strategy? (CIRCLE ONE)
3. Describe it:
4. Evaluate it (DID IT WORK?):
Illustrate it:
THE CONFEDERACY
Illustrate it:
1. Name of the Strategy used by the
Confederacy:________________________________
2. Was it a Political or Military
3. Describe it:
4. Evaluate it (DID IT WORK?):
Strategy? (CIRCLE ONE)
1. Name of the strategy used by the Union:
The Union Blockade
(Grand Strategy/The Anaconda Plan)
2. Was it a
Political or
Strategy?
Military
The Grand Strategy/The Anaconda Plan
• It involved land invasions in three
different regions of the
Confederacy:
– The Far Western Theatre, The Western
Theatre, and the Eastern Theatre.
The Grand Strategy/The Anaconda Plan
• It also involved a naval blockade of
3,500+ miles of Confederate
coastline and 12 major ports.
– Here in GA?
• Port of Savannah – closed off after the
surrender of Fort Pulaski in April 1862.
The Union Blockade – DESCRIBE IT!
• The purpose of the Union
Blockade was to prevent the
passage of goods, supplies, and
weapons to and from the
Confederacy.
• Began April 19, 1861
UNION BLOCKADE SHIP
CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE RUNNER
The Union Blockade – DESCRIBE IT!
• Early in war, not enough Union ships
(26), so the Union pours millions into
building new blockade ships.
• Ships that tried to evade the
blockade, known as blockade
runners (650), were privately-owned,
newly built, high-speed ships with
small cargo capacity.
The Union Blockade
• Those ship owners that were able to
break the blockade line made a
FORTUNE!
– Est. $200 mil. worth of merchandise
and supplies made it through the
blockade by end of war
The Union Blockade – Evaluate it
• At first 5/6 attempts to slip
through the blockade were
successful; by 1864, only 1/2 were
successful.
• Confederate cotton exports
were reduced by 95%.
OUCH! THAT HURTS, YO!
The Union Blockade
• Blockade causes prices of goods to dramatically increase
in the South and makes certain items impossible to get.
• Bacon = $6.60 (2010= $116)
• butter = $2.00 a pound (2010 = $35)
• tea = $7.00 a pound (2010 = $123)
• Hit the hardest?
• Food, medicine, and weapons.
• As the war goes on, replacement parts for
manufacturing machinery and rails used to repair
railroads.
WAR STRATEGY:
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (THE CONFEDERACY)
PICTURE 1
PICTURE 2
PICTURE 3
King Cotton Diplomacy
• The political strategy for winning the
war in the South was known as King
Cotton Diplomacy.
Factories in France and England
Cotton Supply
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King Cotton Diplomacy
2. Was it a
Political or
Military
Strategy?
Factories in France and England
Cotton Supply
King Cotton Diplomacy – Describe it!
• Southern leaders believed that British and
French textile mills couldn’t function
without the South’s cotton.
• France and Great Britain would be forced
to help the South break the blockade to
get the cotton they needed.
Factories in France and England
Cotton Supply
DoES THE
CONFEDERACY
get the
help IT needS?
King Cotton Diplomacy –
Evaluate it!
• Instead of England and France
supporting the South in the war, they
turn to cotton markets in India and
Egypt.
HA! HA!
BUT WHY?
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SOUND RIGHT?
1.) Surplus of cotton in England = we don’t need
your stinkin’ cotton!
2.) Not wanting to get involved in US affairs
= maybe we won’t get pulled into war ourselves
3.) The outcome of the Battle of Antietam = The
North laid out a mighty butt-whooping on the
Confederacy AND announced the Emancipation
Proclamation…its gotta’ be over for the
Confederacy.