American civil war(1861 – 1865)

Josef Šrejber

11th October

North

Union

23 states

Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant

2 200 000 men

South

Confederate

11 states

Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee

1 100 000 men

Causes of war

slavery on the south

southern states wanted autonomy

different evolution of the states

Battles of the civil war

12th April 1861 – Fort Sumter

9th March 1862 – Monitor and Merrimack

6th April 1862 – Siloh

1st – 3rd July 1863 – Gettysburg

Result of the war

victory of the Union

970 000 dead

end of slavery on Southern farms

the United States are togethers again

Abraham Lincoln

1809 – 15th April 1865

16th president of the USA

Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

lead the Union in the civil war

assassinated in the Ford‘s theathre

Jefferson Davis

1808 – 1889

president of the confederation

accused of treason

1869 - pardoned

Battle of Gettysburg - reconstruction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuZltjisSE&feature=fvwrel