Christian Bubat Marc Krämer

Arrangement

• Reasons

• Initial position

• Development 1. half of war+ Coloured troops

• Turning point Ghettysburg+ CSS Hunley

• ResultsSources:

www.wikipedia.de

www.americancivilwar.com

Reasons

Ecomony

+ Influence

+ Slavery

=>Splitting

Initial situation

• Advantage South– Leading

– Weapons

– Training of Troops

– Navy

Confederated Union

Troops

Begin of War

• Secession of South States

• New President, Constitution and Goverment

• Failed peace conference

• Attack on Fort Sumter

Development 1. half of war• First attack of North failed

– Training

• Success in the West +Missisippi region

• South looses

• Cut of Texas and Arkansas

• >Gettysburg

Coloured troops

• Proclamation of

17th July 1862 by Lincoln

• Freedom for

3 Million Slaves

• 180.000 coloured Soldiers

The battle of Ghettysburg

July, 1863

In July, 1st, 2nd and 3rd of 1863

Army of northern Virginia

(General Robert E. Lee, 75000 men)

Union Army of the Potomac

(General George Meade, 97000men)

first day

second day

third day

It remains the great battle of the war although it did not end the war

There fought and died more men than

in any other battle of the war

50.000 dead men

23.000 union and 28.000 confederated soldiers

the CSS Hunley

first submarine used in a naval war

1864 submerged the USS Housatonic

in the harbour of Charleston

The Hunley sunk on it´s way home!

Nobody knows how!

burial of the Hunley-crew

lifted 2000

• 9 men with broken neck (probably because of the explosion) were found

Results of the war

• 620.000 killed soldiers

• End of slavery

• 4 million slaves set free

• economic adjustment of southern states

• beginning of imperialism

• 3 billion Dollar debt for the union

• centralization of the USA