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A COUNTRY TORN
THE CIV IL W AR

November 9

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My plans are perfect,

and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none. -General Joe Hooker

The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in American History
Table of Contents
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Cover Page Resources of the North The North Prepares The Leaders of the Union Major Battles Minority Groups in the War Camplife The Homefront Effects of the War Reconstruction Bibliography
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RESOURCES OF THE NORTH!

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Resources of the North vs. the South (ratio)

Naval Ship Tonnage

Iron production

1 15
Production of firearms

Because the North was industrialized, it had far greater resources in almost every way possible people, guns, railroads, ships, food etc.

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Grey - North Brown - South

Source: Textbook page 339

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The North Prepares

The North called for 75000 men, who would serve for three months. However, these men were often very inexperienced, as evident at Bull Run

THE COLLECTOR!

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The Leaders of the Union

GENERAL MEADE WINFIELD SCOTT ABRAHAM LINCOLN

General Meade General Meade is most famous for being the commander of the Union forces at Gettysburg. The battle went well for the North, and it is generally considered a turning point in the war.

Wineld Scott A Mexican war hero, Wineld Scotts most important contribution to the North was his Anaconda Plan. This strategy, though initially shunned, was eventually employed by the North.

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the president of the North during the Civil War. In fact, his election was the nal straw that caused the South to secede. He was responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all slaves in the Confederacy to be free.

MAJOR BATTLES!
CHANCELLORSVILLE

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BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS COLD HARBOR

Chancellorsville - rough approximation

Hooker

While the battle itself was a loss for the union - Stonewall Jackson did get killed. General Lee was never able to replace him

Jackson Cold Harbor Lee

This was a terrible battle for General Grant. Despite outnumbering the enemy vastly, Grant lost. He attacked a heavily fortied position, and it cost him dearly.

Battle of the wilderness

This battle was the rst clash between General Grant and General Lee. Though many died, it was an indecisive battle.

Grant

Lee

MINORITY GROUPS IN THE WAR!

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African Americans Fight a War to End Slavery

In 1862, African Americans were allowed into the army. With the Emancipation Proclamation, however, many started to sign up in droves.

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% of non-African Americans (North) % of African Americans (North)

10% 90%

Due to immigration, the North many more people to ght the war.

% of non-African Americans in the army (North) % of African Americans in the army (North)

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Camp Life
[war is] short periods of intense fear and long periods of intense boredom - J C Smuts.

Soldiers lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions with bad food and often inadequate supplies. The North did, in general, have better, and more numerous supplies than the South. Men who deserted were hunted down and executed.
300000

Disease Battleeld

225000

150000

75000

0 Death by disease vs. death on the battlefield

Did no survive being wounded Survived being wounded

THE HOMEFRONT!

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The North Economy Booms

Due to a need by the government for weapons, food, clothing etc. the manufacturers that produced these things made large prots.

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Unfortunately, wages did not rise with prots, and looked something like this: (Note: This is a visualization, not an actual data graph)

Abraham Lincoln: Fighter for Justice or a Tyrant?

Abraham Lincoln, in order to combat disorder in the Union (riots, spies, etc.) took away many liberties in places, like Habius Corpus and enforced marshal law

In general, life in the North was much better than that of life in the South

EFFECTS OF THE WAR!

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The North is changed

The economy boomed for the North. In addition, the Federal Government became even more powerful, and started the rst income tax. While slavery was forever banned, equality would take a very long time to get.

After the growth of federal p o w e r, n o s t a t e e ve r threatened to secede again. The state and local governments both lost power

"A rich man's war and a poor man's ght..." -Shelby Foot

Hundreds of thousand of Northerners died

Killed Wounded Total

125000

250000

375000

500000

RECONSTRUCTION!

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The Freedmen Must be North enacted many Protected The 15th amendment, hatlaws, like the 14th and protected African
Americans by protecting their rights.
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. Honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth." -Abraham Lincoln

Lincolns assassination may have caused the reconstruction to not go as smoothly. He had tried to forgive and forget. Had he been p re s i d e n t , L i n c o l n c o u l d h ave l e d t h e reconstruction, and the nation, far better than Johnson.
Resentment and racism grew as a side effect of protecting African Americans. Every right that Freedmen got, White Southerners saw as an insult.

http://www.kidport.com/reib/usahistory/civilwar/Slavery.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHY!
Works Cited

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American Studies @ The University of Virginia. Web. 08 Nov. 2011. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/CRANE/ chancellorsville/section2.html>. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2009. Print. "Battle of Cold Harbor: The Folly and Horror." Civil War Trust: Saving America's Civil War Battlefields. Web. 08 Nov. 2011. <http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/coldharbor/cold-harbor-history-articles/>. "History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Episodes." History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home. Web. 08 Nov. 2011. <http://historyengine.richmond.edu/ episodes/view/4748>. Library of Congress Home. Web. 08 Nov. 2011. <http://www.loc.gov/index.html>.