Name: Roger Yang
Date: 3/15/11
Period:6 th

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In November 1850 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the untied state.
• In December 1860 Lincoln says as president, he will not interfere with slave, in the South and he will enforce the Fugitive Salves
Laws, BUT he will not allow slavery to spread into any of the territories
• In that December South Carolina senators are mad and vote to have South Carolina leave the union. Ten other southern states soon followed.
• March 1861 Lincoln is sworn into office and officially becomes president of the “Not o united states” he decides all military forts belong to the US government no matter where they are North and
South.
• April 12, 1861 Angry Southerners in Charleston, South Carolina open
• In Spring 1861 the civil war has begun

North Strengths
 22 million people strong
 Had more states
 Better technology
 90% factories
 Most of the bank = richer
 Had more farm to provide food
 Controlled the sea- Big Navy
 21,000 miles of railroad
 Transport supplies & troops is easy
 Land had iron ,lopper ,coal ,and gold
South Strengths
• Import guns & supplies from Europe
• Long coastlines
• Big & spread out land
• Get to fight on own land
• Military Generals, ex:
Robert E. Lee
• Could trade cotton for war supplies with Europe

North Weakness
• Military leadership weak
• 1/3 of Northern generals quit & weal back to the south
• Waste time searching for good generals
• Have to travel & attack the south
South Weaknesses
• A million people
• Unaware of attack
• Mississippi could split the confederacy in 2
• Economy could not support a long war
• Few factories to produce gun & supplies

25
23
20
15
10
5
9
0
Union confrderate millions
How many more people lived in Union states than in Confederate states?

2,25
2,5
2
1,5
Union
Confederate
1
0,75
0,5
0
About how many times more square miles of land did Union states have compared to
Confederate states?

90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
84%
16%
71%
29%
Manufacturing
Plants
Iron Production union
Column3
Which side---the Union or the Confederacy---had greater manufacturing and iron production?

25 000
22 000
20 000
15 000
Union
Confederate
10 000
5 000
9 000
0
Miles
About how many times more railroad track did the North have than the South?

400 000 000
350 000 000
300 000 000
250 000 000
200 000 000
150 000 000
100 000 000
50 000 000
0
189 000 000
47 000 000
346 000 000
76 000 000
Money In Banks Bank Asset
Which side---the Union or the Confederacy---had greater financial resources?
Union confederate

The Union
 President Abraham Lincoln
 General Winfield Scott
 General Irvin McClellan
 General George McClellan
 Admiral David Farragut
 General Ulysses S. Grant
 General George Meade
 General William Sherman
The Confederacy
 President Jefferson Davis
 Joseph E. Johnston
 General Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson
 General Robert E. Lee
 General George Pickett

Union- Abraham Lincoln
Confederate-Jefferson Davis

25
20
20
15
10
5
8
Union
Confederate
0
Hundreds of Thousands
How many more troops did the Union states have than the Confederate states?

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Summary and Outcome
Leaders
 Bull Run/Manassas July 1861
 McDowell was sent to take confederate capital in
Richmond, VA
 Need to control RR Junction in
Manassas Virginal
 Confederate troops were waiting at Bull Run creek near
 Union pushes passed creek
 Confederate got back up
 Confederate won 1 st battle
 North lost of a quick war
 Union
 Irvin McDowell
 Confederate
 Pierre Beauregard
 Joseph Johnston
 Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson

Summary and Outcome
 September 17 1862- Battle of Antietam
 Lee went into Maryland joined his side
 Lee left his battle plan
 North won
 Bloodiest one day battle in the U.S History
Leaders
 McClellan
 Robert E. Lee

 September 22, 1862 Emancipation
Proclamation
 At the heart of the bloody struggle were millions of enslaved African Americans
 Abolition urged president Lincoln to free them


Summary and Outcome
• July 1-3 1863 of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania day 1
• Confederate army pushed union back
• Both got reinforcement day
3
• Confederate attacked union, union helped them off & confederate retreated
Leaders
• George Meade
• Robert E Lee
• George Rickets

• Union soldiers moved the confederate troops back toward Richmond
• Grant plans to take the confederate capital
• Try to keep the troops going and pumped up
• Paused the Union soldiers and told his commitment to win the war
• Lincoln makes space at new Gettysburg

Summary and Outcome
• Spring 1862 December 1862
• Sherman marched troops from
Tennessee to Atlanta, George destroying everything into dust on the way
• Captured Atlanta
• Destroyed R.R farms, livestock, corps, factories along the way
• Captured savannah but mad south very angry at the war tactics
Leaders
• General William Sherman
• General Joseph Johnston

Summary and Outcome
 April 9,1865
 Union army had trapped confederate army
 Union & Confederate Generals met in Appomattox courthouse
 General Robert E Lee surrender to General Grant ending the war
 Lee signs surrender document
 Grant promise to take care of confederate army
Leaders
 Union
 William Sherman
 Ulysses Grant
 Confederate
 Robert E Lee

350
300
250
300
240
200
150
100
50
0
Thousands
Who had more war casualties, the North or the South?
How many more did they have?
Union
Confederate

60 000
50 000
40 000
30 000
20 000
10 000
0
51 112
34 624 35 732
27 399
20 160
Gettysburg
Chickamauga
Chancellorsville
Spotsylvania
Antietam deaths
About how many total people were killed at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville,
Spotsylvania, and Antietam?

1) The Civil War had deep and long-lasting effects
2) 620,000 American lost their lives during the four years of fighting
3) The south would end slavery there
4) The majority former slaves, however they had no homes or jobs