Reconstruction
Review of the Civil War
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Objective
The student will be able to state the primary
causes of the Civil War through discussion.
Do Now
• What is “a” civil war? How would this be
different from the American Civil War?
• Some say a civil war is the most brutal of all
wars. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
Vocabulary
State your best guess what the meanings are of
the following words:
• Reconstruction –
• Secession
• Confederacy
• Civil War
Vocabulary
• Reconstruction – The period during which the
U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War from
1865 to 1877, primarily how the Federal
government readmitted the southern states who
seceded from the union.
• Secession – The formal withdrawal of a state
from the Union.
• Confederacy – The group of Southern states who
seceded from the Union in 1861. They considered
themselves a new country: The Confederate
States of America.
Vocabulary (cont
• Civil War – The war between the United States
and the Confederate States between 1861 and
1865.
When was the Civil War fought?
• The war began when the Confederates
bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter,
South Carolina on April 12, 1861.
• The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee
surrendered the last major Confederate army
to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
on April 9, 1865.
Where was the Civil War fought?
• The Civil War was fought in thousands of
different places, from southern Pennsylvania
to Texas; from New Mexico to the Florida
coast.
• The majority of the fighting took place in the
states of Virginia and Tennessee.
• The Civil War was also contested on the
Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River.
How many soldiers fought in the Civil
War?
• At the beginning of the war the Northern states
had a combined population of 22 million people.
• The Southern states had a combined population
of about 9 million.
• This disparity was reflected in the size of the
armies in the field. The Union forces
outnumbered the Confederates roughly two to
one.
How many soldiers died in the Civil
War?
• Approximately
620,000 soldiers
died from combat,
accident,
starvation, and
disease during the
Civil War.
• A recent study puts
the number of
dead as high as
850,000.
What caused the Civil War?
• Uncompromising differences between the free and slave
states over the power of the national government to
prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become
states.
• When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first
Republican president on a platform pledging to keep
slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep
South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate
States of America.
• The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the
Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of
secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy
and create a fatal precedent that would eventually
fragment the no-longer United States into several small,
squabbling countries."
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