The American Civil War

Situation :

American independence in

1783 with the Treaty of Paris

Causes :

1854 : the Republican Party was born1860 : Lincoln won the election

February 1861 : a new independent state, the Confederate States with Jefferson Davis

Taxes in the North

Lincoln president

Slavery in the South War

Causes :

Union CSA

Total population 22,100,000 (71%) 9,100,000 (29%)

Slave population, 1860 400,000 3,500,000

Soldiers 2,100,000 (67%) 1,064,000 (33%)

Manufactured items 90% 10%

Bales of cotton in 1860 Negligible 4,500,000

Bales of cotton in 1864 Negligible 300,000

Causes :

12 April 1861 : Confederate artillery fires at Fort Sumter near Charleston

During the war:11 states inhabited

by 9 million people (South)

23 states inhabited

by 25 million people (North)

Reconciliation :

1 April 1865 : Battle of Five Forks that forced Lee to evacuate Richmond-Petersburg, the Confederate capital.

Reconciliation :

1865 : Defeat at Sayler Creek, it became clear to Robert Lee that the fight against the Union is tactically and logistically impossible!

Consequences :

In 1807, the abolition of the

slave trade.

In 1865, slavery is abolished by the

thirteenth amendment .

Birth of Protestant supremacist

groups like the Ku Klux Klan, …

Questions

1- What was the central source of tension in the 1850’s?2- Who were the opponents?3- Which event marked the beginning of the war ?4- When did the war begin?5- Who was the American president?6- Who was the Confederate (southern) army's leader?7- When did it end? 8- When have slavery been abolished?9- What has happening, then?10- Had Blacks and whites the same rights?