The Civil War

Causes of the Civil War The tariff on imported goods from Europe helped the North’s economy but hurt the South .

States’ Rights (nullification)

Slavery

The Election of 1860 – Lincoln was elected without any Southern electoral votes

Secession

The act of withdrawing from a country

Northern AdvantagesMore railroads

More factories

More population

More large cities

Southern AdvantagesFighting on home soil

The best generals – trained at military schools in the South

Abraham Lincoln

16th President.

Held the Union together during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy

Robert E. Lee

Confederate General

Fort Sumter

Federal fortress in South Carolina.

Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired when Confederates attacked

Antietam A creek near Sharpsburg Maryland Battle lasted from dawn to dusk 23,000 casualties No decisive victory for either side Lee escapes back into Virginia Lincoln relieves McClellan of his

command War continues for 2 more years

Battle of GettysburgJuly 1863

3 day battle in Pennsylvania

28,000 Confederate casualties ended Southern hopes of

winning the war

Gettysburg Address

Speech delivered by Lincoln in a ceremony to dedicate the field as a cemetery for the Union dead of the battle

Gettysburg Address

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. . . .

Gettysburg Address(continued)

. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Appomattox Court House

Village in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the war on April 9, 1865