Civil War

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Civil War

• Jake Minchew
• For Mrs. Cowart

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Causes

• States Rights
• Trade Imbalance
• Slavery

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States Rights

• States have rights.
• The U.S. government has rights.
• Which are more important?

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Slavery

• North wanted to prevent the spread of slavery.
• Issue was over whether the federal government
  could tell states what to do.

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Fort Sumter

• The firing on Ft. Sumter was the start of the
  shooting conflict between the north and the south.

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Issued after the start of the war
• Written by President Lincoln
• Met mixed reactions
• Ordered the slaves to be freed
• This didnt happen until the war ended.

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Shermans March to the Sea

• Army marched from Atlanta to Savannah
• Path was 50 miles wide
• Burned and destroyed everything

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Lees Surrender at Appomattox

• April 9, 1865
• Ended the Civil War
• His men were allowed to return home.

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Abraham Lincoln

• 16th President of the United States.
• His election led to several southern states
  leaving the Union.
• Served as President of the U.S. during the Civil
  War.
• Wrote Emancipation Proclamation
• Was assassinated

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Ulysses Grant

• Commander of the Northern Army at the end of the
  war.

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Jefferson Davis

• Former Secretary of War for the United States and
  Former U.S. Senator from Mississippi
• President of the Confederate States of America.

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Robert E. Lee

• Leader of the Confederate Army.
• Known as great military mind.
• Was offered command of the Union Army by
  President Lincoln at the start of the war.
• Turned down that offer to defend his home state
  of Virginia.

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Frederick Douglas

• Former slave who escaped
• Learned to read and write
• Great speaker

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Harriet Tubman

• Former slave
• Escaped slavery
• Conductor for the Underground Railroad
• Helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom

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Life on the Battlefield

• Only officers had tents
• Carried all their belongings on their backs
• Very boring when not actually fighting
• Played games
• Wrote letters

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Life on the Homefront

• Women had to run farms and businesses
• Worried about soldiers
• Wrote letters
• Worked as nurses
• Often lost everything

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Effects of the New Amendments

• 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
• Slavery outlawed
• States rights
• Everyone had right to vote

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Reconstruction

• Had to rebuild things that were destroyed
• Freed slaves had to learn how to live on their
  own
• Soldiers returned home

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In Shermans march to the sea how wide was his
path?
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Which is more important Federal government or
U.S. government?
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What was the cause of the shooting conflict
between the North and the South?
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Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
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When did the Civil War end?
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Who was the former Secretary of the war?
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What did women have to do?