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STANDARD VUS.7a-c

Civil War

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Mounting sectional tensions and a failure of political will led to the Civil War.

What were the causes of the Civil War? 7a.

O Sectional disagreements and debates over tariffs, extension of slavery into the territories, and the nature of the Union (states’ rights)

O Northern abolitionists versus Southern defenders of slavery

O United States Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case

O Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

O Ineffective presidential leadership in the 1850sO A series of failed compromises over the expansion of

slavery in the territoriesO President Lincoln’s call for federal troops in 1861

Assignment: “Issues”O Which issue was the leading cause of

the Civil War? Why?O Political O SlaveryO Economic

O Acrostic Poem for your issue.

What were the major military and political events of the Civil War?

7b.O Election of Lincoln (1860), followed by the

secession of several Southern states that feared Lincoln would try to abolish slavery

O Fort Sumter (SC): Opening confrontation of the Civil War

O Emancipation Proclamation: issued after Battle of Antietam (MD)

O Gettysburg (PA): Turning point of the Civil War

O Appomattox (VA): Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

1) Election result 1860

2) Fort Sumter: Opening confrontation of the Civil War

3) Emancipation Proclamation issued after Battle of Antietam

4) Gettysburg: Turning point of the Civil War. 166,000 men/46,000 casualties/27,000 killed North Victory

5) Appomattox: Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

Who were the key leaders of the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln: President of the U.S. (insisted that the Union be held together, by force if necessary

Jefferson Davis: President of C.S.A

Ulysses S. Grant: Union military commander

Robert E. Lee: Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia (Lee opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should be held together by force)

Frederick Douglass: Former enslaved African American who became a prominent abolitionist( urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved African Americans to fight in the Union army )

How did the ideas expressed in the Emancipation Proclamation and the

Gettysburg Address support the North’s war aims?

O Freed those slaves located in the “rebelling” states (Southern states that had seceded)

O Made the abolition of slavery a Northern war aim(why we are fighting this war)

O Discouraged any interference of foreign governments

O Allowed for the enlistment of African American soldiers in the Union Army

What was Lincoln’s vision of the American nation as professed in the

Gettysburg Address? 7c

O Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal” and that was ruled by a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

O Lincoln believed America was “one nation,” not a collection of sovereign states. Southerners believed that states had freely joined the Union and could freely leave.