Civil War

Ch 2.4

Monday, February 13, 2012

• Daily goal: Understand the North’s strengths and the significant events of the Civil War.

• Notes Analysis:• Uses your Ch 2.2 notes and explain how Manifest

Destiny divided the North and South and what problems it created for Native Americans.

• Your response must include: manifest destiny, Missouri compromise and trail of tears.

Notes Analysis Sample

• Manifest Destiny pushed the country west and created an imbalance in power between the North and South. The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled this dispute. Manifest Destiny also influenced pushing the native Americans off their land in the trail of tears.

War objectives

• North-wanted to preserve the Union.• South- protect slavery by any means.

Where are the Republicans?

Abe wins, SC secedes, other Southern states follow pg.172

Lincoln’s election

• Believed slavery was morally wrong, but promised he would not get rid of it.

• The Southern states distrusted Lincoln and began their secession from the US.

• They then formed their own country called the Confederacy.

Lincoln suspends Habeus Corpus

• Lincoln suspended writs of habeus corpus, which is a court order that the gov’t must either charge a person with a crime or set them free.

• The gov’t could then indefinitely imprison people without trial.

Casualties on Both Sides

Civil War Casualtiesin Comparison to Other Wars

Attrition War

• The Civil War was an attrition war which was won by the side who had the most resources and could out last their opponent.

• The North’s economy and resources far surpassed the South’s.

Emancipation Proclamation

Sept. 1862 – Emancipation Proclamation 4 months to rejoin the Union States who rejoined the Union would

have their “right” to own slaves untouched

Jan 1, 1863 – Emanc. Proc. effective Freed slaves in the Confederacy – NOT

in the border states that remained with the Union

Did it really end slavery in Confederate states?

Emancipation in 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln issued the decree freeing all enslaved persons in the rebelling states.

• Slaves in border states still loyal to the Union were not freed.

• The war was now to end slavery.

SAVANNA, GEORGIA

Sherman’s March to the Sea

• General Sherman brought total war to the South destroying everything in his army’s path as it marched through.

• Sherman wanted to pressure the South to quit.

The South Surrenders

• General Robert E. Lee surrendered for the South at the Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865 ending the war.