After Bull Run

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After Bull Run

• Warm Up
• Grab a Confederate or Union Sheet and Complete

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Critical Thinking

• How does a loss at Bull Run affect the Union?
  The Confederacy?

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Not a 90 Day War

• Union loses, retreats in shambles to DC
• Confederates morale boosted
• Why?

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Lincoln Needs A Leader
Who would have thought, that I should be so soon
called upon to save my country?

• Irvin McDowell reassigned and Scott forced to
  resign
• Hires George McClellan

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Emboldens the Confederacy

• Believe they can defeat the Union Army at will

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MeanwhileIn The West

• Ulysses S. Grants star on rise
• Sought a commission
• Initial battle not a success, would bring
  victories

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Late 1861

• July - Blockade Begins
• Coastal Forts in SC taken
• First slaves freed

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Anaconda Plan

• Naval Blockade seeing success by 1862
• Strangling Southern Economy
• Union fleet growing
• Includes ironclads

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A Full Out War

• The Union is now forced to call for 3 year
  enlistments
• Will eventually rely on the draft for soldiers

• The Economy switches to a war economy
• The common citizen will have to step up and fight
  for his country

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