Name: Bill Vue

Date: 3/15/11

Period: 6

CIVIL WAR DATA

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR• In November 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.

• In December 1860 Lincoln says, as President, he will not interfere with slavery in the South and he will enforce the Fugitive Slaves Laws, BUT he will not allow slavery to spread into any of the territories

• South Carolina senators are mad and vote to have South Carolina leave the Union. 10 other southern states soon followed and created the confederate states of America.

• Lincoln is sworn into office and officially becomes president of the “Not So united States” he decides all military forts belong to the U.S. government no matter where they are North or South

• The civil war has begun

• Import guns and supplies from Europe

• Long coastline

• Big and spread out land

• Get to fight on own land

• Military generals

• Could trade cotton for war supplies with Europe

• 22 million people strong

• Had more states

• Better technology

• 90% factories

• Most of banks

• Had more farms to provides food

• Controlled sea-big navy

• 21,000 miles of railroad

• Transporting supplies and troops is easy

• Land hold iron, copper, coal, gold

BEGINNING THE WARNorth Strengths South Strengths

• 9 million people

• Unaware of attack

• Mississippi could split the confederacy in2

• Economy couldn’t support a long war

• Few factories to produce guns and supplies

• Bad transportation

• Short incomplete railroads

• Weak money

• Military Leadership work

• 1/3 of northern generals quit and went back to south

• Waste time searching for goods general

BEGINNING THE WARNorth Weakness

South Weaknesses

POPULATION IN MILLIONS

Series10

5

10

15

20

2523

9

unoin conferderate Linear (conferderate)

How many more people lived in Union states than in Confederate states?

LAND AREA

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500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,0002,250,000

750,000

Unionconfederate

About how many times more square miles of land did Union states have compared to Confederate states?

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

manufacturing plants

iron production0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90 84

71

16

29

unionconfederate

Which side---the Union or the Confederacy---had greater manufacturing and iron production?

MILES OF RAILROAD TRACK

rail mileage0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,00022,000

9,000

unionconfederate

About how many times more railroad track did the North have than the South?

FINANCES

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50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

189

346

4776

unionconfederate

Which side---the Union or the Confederacy---had greater financial resources?

MAP

PRESIDENTS

Union-Abraham Lincoln Confederate- Jefferson Davis

• President Jefferson Davis

• Joseph E. Johnston

• General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• General Robert E. Lee

• General George Pickett

• President Abraham Lincoln

• General Winfield Scott

• General Irvin McDowell

• General George McClellan

• Admiral David Farragut

• General Ulysses S. Grant

• General George Meade

• General William Sherman

LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR

The Union The Confederacy

TROOPS

states0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

2,000,000

800,000

unionconfederate

How many more troops did the Union states have than the Confederate states?

• Union

• Irvin/ McDowell in Richmond

• Confederate

• Pierre Beauregard

• Joseph Johnston

• Thomas “stonewall” Jackson

• Bull Run/ Manassas July 1861

• McDowell was sent to take confederate captain

• Needed to control RR junction in Manassas, Virginia

• Confederate troops were waiting at Bull Run creek near Manassas

• Union pushed passed creek

• Confederate got back up

• Union and led

• Confederate won 1st battle

• North lost hope of a quick victory

1ST BATTLE OF BULL RUNSummary and Outcome

Leaders

• Union

• McClellan

• Confederate

• Robert E. Lee

• September, 17 1862- Battle of Antietam

• Lee went to Maryland

• Lee traveled to people, nobody joined his side

• Lee felt his battle plan

• North won

• One day 25,000 men killed

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

Summary and Outcome Leaders

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• September 22, 1862- Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln wanted to free slaves

• Lincoln found emancipation, or the freeing slaves

• Lincoln fee slaves because they help them in the Civil War

• Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

• Made Abolitionists very happy

• Union

• George Meade

• Confederate

• Robert E. Lee

• George Pickett

• July 1-3 1863

• Lee wanted to attacks so much that the North would lose and gain help from Europe

• Confederate forces gathered in a small town outside Gettysburg

• Lincoln soldiers air there

• Confederate sent

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

Summary and Outcome

Leaders

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

• November 19, 1863

• Lincoln makes speech at the new Gettysburg cemetery

• He praised union soldiers and told

• The union leader was Lincoln

• Union

• William Sherman Winner

• Confederate

• Joseph Johnston

• Spring 1864- Dec.1864

• Pain to destroy southern railroad and industries

• Capture Atlanta

• Move on to Savannah, GA

• Destroyed RR, forms ,live stock

SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA

Summary and Outcome Leaders

• Union

• William Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Confederate

• Robert E. Lee

• April 9, 1865- Appomattox Court house

• Union and confederate generals met in Appomattox court house

• General Robert E. Lee surrender does Grant ending war

• Lee sign surrender does

SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX

Summary and OutcomeLeaders

WAR CASUALTIES

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50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

400,000

unionconfederate

Who had more war casualties, the North or the South?How many more did they have?

THE FIVE COSTLIEST BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR

deaths0

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

51,122

34,624 35,732

27,399

GettysburgChickamaugaChancellorsvilleSpotsylvaniaAntietam

About how many total people were killed at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and Antietam?

EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR1) Almost 620,000 Americans lost their lives during the four years of fighting.

2) The majority of former slaves however had no homes or job.

3) The southern economy was in ruins.

4) The slavery end in the south.