The Civil War

•The First Shots

•The Strengths and Weaknesses

•The Game Plans

First Shots

Union troops were stationed in Fort Sumter,

which is part of SC

SC did not like having a foreign nation in its

territory

Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumer

Lincoln ordered the Union army to put down

the rebellion

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Other Names

No. Of States

Population

Leadership

Railroads

Union, United States of

America, USA

Confederacy, Confederate States

of America, CSA

23 11

22,000,000 9,000,000(includes 3,500,000 slaves)

Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis

75% of nation’s railroads

25% of nation’s railroads

Border State: state that allowed slavery but did not secede the Union.

Generals

Capital

Army

Navy

Cause for fighting?

Ulysses S. GrantGeorge McClellan

-inexperienced

Robert E. LeeStonewall Jackson

- well trained, experienced

Washington, D.C.Richmond, VA

(briefly in Montgomery, AL)

1,500,00 army 1,000,000 army

Large Navy which grew

larger as war progressed

No navy at war’s start

- Preserve the country

- Free the Slaves

- Maintain “southern way of

life,” which includes slavery

What is the game plan?

Strategies of the Union and Confederacy!

What’s the Strategy…

Confederate Strategy:

1.) We brokeaway. It’s upto the Union

to make us stay!All we need to do is defend!

2.) Make the war drag on. Northerners

will eventually get

sick of it!

Can you guess what the Union plan was?

What’s the Strategy…Union Strategy was the “Anaconda Plan.”

The plan wasto:

- Block off ports

-Control the

Mississippi River

- Starve the

Confederacy of

supplies

Can you guess what the Union plan was?