civil war leaders and battles part 2.pptx

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EOCT Review Questions


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Unit 4: A Nation Divided

Lesson 5: Civil War Leaders andBattles part 2


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Warm Up!

1. Why do you think the

Unions population was somuch larger than the

population in the

Confederacy?

2. What Union advantages areportrayed in these graphs?

3. Why would the loss of lives

in the Battles be so

devastating to the

Confederacy?


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arm p1. What Union advantages

are portrayed in thesegraphs?

2. After looking at thesegraphs, why do you thinka Union blockade on theSouthern ports was a

good strategy?

3. Why would the loss of thecontrol of the MississippiRiver hurt the

Confederacy?


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Antietam: September 1862 Robert E. Lee marched into Maryland hoping that a

Southern victory would convince the North to settle forpeace, gain support from the British, and find food for hismen

The two armies fought at Antietam, which became the

bloodiest one-day battle in American history (26,000 dead,16,000 wounded)

Lee is forced to retreat back into Virginia

The Union victory led

Lincoln to issue theEmancipation

ProclamationWhat might have happened if

Lee defeated the Union Army

at Antietam?
http://www.history.com/videos/the-battle-of-antietamhttp://www.history.com/videos/the-battle-of-antietam


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Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln, amid growing war casualties, used the Unionvictory at Antietam to issue the Emancipation

Proclamationin September 1862 and to punish therebelling states.

The Proclamation:-freed only those slaves in the states in rebellion

-did not free the slaves in the border states-gave the Union

Army another

reason to fight: the

liberation of slavesWhich slave stateswere unaffected bythe Proclamation?Why did Lincoln plan

this?


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Gettysburg (PA): July 1st-3rd 1863 Lee retreated on July 4th, having lost 1/3 of

his entire fighting force The loss forces the South to fight a

defensive war and strengthened the will of

the North to continue the fight Leads to Gettysburg address

Why do you think

Gettysburg is consideredthe turning point of the war?
http://www.history.com/videos/the-battle-of-gettysburghttp://www.history.com/videos/the-battle-of-gettysburg


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Vicksburg (MS) May -July 1863

By 1863, Vicksburg was the last major

Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River Ulysses S. Grant launched a siege of the city in

May 1863 cutting off its food supply and placing itunder constant bombardment

The Confederate forces surrenderJuly 4th 1863

gave the Union complete control

of the Mississippi River and cut theConfederacy in halfWhich Confederate states were isolated

from the rest of the South with the fall of

Vicksburg?
http://www.history.com/videos/the-union-siege-of-vicksburghttp://www.history.com/videos/the-union-siege-of-vicksburg


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Surrender Terms Lincolns Decision

No need to further separate the

Union Lees soldiers were paroled

and sent home

Was there a lot of punishmentinvolved?


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Social Changes

Emancipation Proclamation onlyfreed who???

Lincoln wanted ConstitutionalAmendment to abolish slaverydidnt pass in 1864

1866 Congress ratified the 13thAmendment


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Costs of War

Human lives 360,000 Union Soldiers died 260,000 Confederate Soldiers

died 500,000 Total Wounded

10% of population in military

Monetary Costs $3.3 Billion


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Civil War Casualties

Union 360,000Confederate 260,000

TOTAL 620,000

here were nearly as many casualties

in the Civil War as in all of

America's other wars combined.


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