CIVIL WAR
• 2. IMMEDIATE:
• A. LINCOLN'S ELECTION AS
PRESIDENT
• B. SOUTHERN STATE'S DECISION TO
SECEDE
• C. SOUTHERN FORCES' FIRING ON
FORT SUMTER
Rating the North & the South
Slave/Free States Population,
1861
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources: North & the South
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Soldiers’ Occupations:
North/South Combined
The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
Buy Your Way Out of Military Service
The North Initiates
the Draft, 1863
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
A “Pogrom” Against Blacks
Emancipation in 1863
African-American Recruiting Poster
The Famous 54th Massachusetts
Inflation in the South
1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
Presidential
Election
Results:
1864
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)
The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
The Assassination
WANTED~~!!
The Execution
CONSEQUENCES:
1. ECONOMICALLY THE SOUTH WAS
DEVASTATED; POLITICALLY IT WAS SUBJECT TO
DOMINATION BY A CONGRESS CONTROLLED BY
NORTHERNERS
2. SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED: ALL AFRICAN
AMERICANS WERE FREE CITIZENS OF THE U.S.
3. THREE IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS WERE
ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION
13TH - FREED SLAVES
14TH - CITIZENSHIP
15TH - RIGHT TO VOTE CANNOT BE DENIED
BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN
4. THE NATIONAL UNION WAS PRESERVED
5. THE FEDERAL SYSTEM WAS UNDERSTOOD TO BE
ONE IN WHICH NATIONAL LAWS WERE SUPREME;
SECESSION OF A STATE WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE
SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED
6. DEEP RESENTMENT ON THE PART OF THE
SOUTHERN STATES
7. APPROXIMATELY 620,000 DIED
A. NORTH - 360,000(ABOUT) - 22 MILLION
B. SOUTH - 1/4 OF ITS SOLDIERS DIED - 9.5
MILLION
8. SPURRED ECONOMIC GROWTH