American Civil War

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American Civil War

• Key events, issues, and individuals relating to
  the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil
  War

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Introduction to the Civil War

• Summary for chapter 7
• Serves as a study guide for chapter 7
• Anything covered in this presentation CAN be
  presented to you in the Test!!!!!

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Quick Quiz

• Put these in order
• Dred Scott Case
• John Browns Raid
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Shermans March
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Secession of Confederacy
• Battle of Gettysburg

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Abolitionist Movement

• American Anti-Slavery Society
• William Lloyd Garrison
• The Liberator
• Abolitionist literature
• Fredrick Douglass

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Facts about slaves

• Almost one-third of all Southern families owned
  slaves.
• Total number of slaves in the Lower South
  2,312,352 (47 of total population).
• Total number of slaves in the Upper South
  1,208758 (29 of total population).

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Key People of the Confederacy

• President Jefferson Davis
• (Picture below)
• General Robert E. Lee
• (Picture to the right)

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Key People of the Union

• President Abraham Lincoln
• (Picture below)
• General Ulysses S. Grant
• (Picture to the right)

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Dred Scott Case 1846

• St. Louis Circuit Court
• 11 year legal dispute decided in the Supreme
  Court
• Result Scott still a slave
• Contributed to rising tension between the states

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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Railroad
• Free or slave area?
• Created two new territories
• Northern abolitionists formed the Emigrant Aid
  Society
• Southerners formed the Blue Lodge
• Bleeding Kansas

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John Browns Raid

• Harpers Ferry 1859
• Army of 21
• Federal Armory and Arsenal and Halls Rifle Works
• Local Militia and U.S. soldiers under Robert E.
  Lee
• 10 of Browns men killed
• Hastened the advent of the Civil War

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Southern Secession

• Completed by 1861
• Confederate States of America formed
• President Jefferson Davis
• Attack on Fort Sumter
• South Carolina first to leave
• Decision of Robert E. Lee

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Battle of Bull Run July 1861

• Manassas Junction, Virginia
• Formal opening of the war
• Expectations of the Union Army
• Spectators stood by with picnic baskets prepared
  to see the show
• 32,500 Confederate soldiers, 1,982 casualties
• 35,000 Union soldiers, 2,869 casualties

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Bull Run Pictures

• View of the battlefield,First Bull
  Run,Virginia, July 1861

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Battle of Antietam

• September 17, 1862
• Bloodiest single day of the Civil War
• McClellans mistake
• Nearly 4,000 casualties and 17,000 injuries
• Ambrose Burnside

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Issued by Abraham Lincoln
• January 1, 1863
• Third year of the war
• All persons held as slaves within
• the rebellious state shall be free
• Applied only to states that seceded from the
  Union
• Slavery was untouched in the Union

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Battle of Gettysburg July of 1863

• Greatest battle of the War
• Confederate Army
• Lead by Robert E. Lee
• 75,000 men
• Union Army
• Lead by George G. Meade
• 97,000 men
• Over 51,000 human casualties

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Before Gettysburg

• Six officers of the 17th New York
  BatteryGettysburg, Pa.June 1863

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Shermans March to the Sea

• September-November 1864
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Savannah, Georgia
• Columbia, South Carolina
• Major-General W. T. Sherman
• Wheelers Calvary
• Map of Shermans march (picture to the right)

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Answer to Quiz

• Dred Scott Case 1846
• Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
• John Browns Raid 1859
• South Secedes 1861
• Emancipation Proclamation January 1863
• Battle of Gettysburg July 1863
• Shermans March 1864

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Works Cited

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  us es.html

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Works Cited Cont

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Works Cited Cont

• Premier Internet, Inc. The Civil War. 20 May
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About Me

• Timothy Peavy
• Secondary Math Education Major
• Subject U.S. History The Civil War
• Grade Levels 9th-12th
• GPS Standard SSUSH9