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A COUNTRY TORN
THE CIV IL W AR
November 9
Michael Yoon
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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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Iron production
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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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THE COLLECTOR!
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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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Hooker
While the battle itself was a loss for the union - Stonewall Jackson did get killed. General Lee was never able to replace him
Grant
Lee
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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.
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THE HOMEFRONT!
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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)
In general, life in the North was much better than that of life in the South
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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
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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>.