THE NATION TESTED:The Civil War

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The Civil War

The Civil War A war between the states of America. America

was divided into two: Confederacy and The Union.

CONFEDERACY South Carolina  Mississippi  Florida  Alabama Georgia Louisiana  Texas  Virginia  Arkansas  Tennessee North Carolina 

THE UNION California Connecticut Delaware* Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky* Maine Maryland* Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri* Nevada

New Hampshire

New York New Jersey Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia* Wisconsin

The Civil War

It lasted from April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865 (last shot ended June, 1865)

It was The Union’s Victory

The Great central fact during this period was the war between the States. The questions of slavery and of states rights had become national issues very soon after 1800. War came and , and for 4 years the soil of America was drenched with the blood of her choicest sons, North and South.

The years preceding the war were years of spiritual ferment, of religious unrest and of social reform.

The Mormon

movement was started in 1830

by JOSEPH SMITH

The Abolition movement came to a focus under the leadership of WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, receiving powerful aid later through the writings of Whittier, Lowell and Stowe.

Unitarianism came into being in New England as a protest against the strictness of Puritanism. In the hands of Emerson and the influential group of thinkers living in Concord, Massachusetts, arose a new philosophic doctrine, TRANSCENDENTALISM

TRANSCENDALISM

Transcendentalism was highly idealistic. It valued people more than things, the soul more than the body, character more than wealth.

Political Letter and SpeechABRAHAM LINCOLN

From a letter to Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley is the famous editor of the

influential New York Tribune. On August 20, 1862, he publish an address to the president under the title “The Prayer of 20,000,000 people”

The Second Inaugural AddressDelivered March 4, 1865

Abraham Lincoln

The Short StoryNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The Ambitious Guest Based on a tragedy which took place in the

famous mountain pass in the White Mountains of New Hampshire known as the Notch

David SwanHawthorne relates three thrilling incidents that

never took place.

Nathaniel Hawthorne