Title your next page: Image Preview

Picture #1Describe what you see in this image.

Picture #2Describe what you see in this image.

Picture #3Describe what you see in this image.

Read over your description of the images.

Now make connections: write an explanation of how you believe the 3 images are connected/related.

Making connections

Title the next part of your page:

Civil War: A Summary

April 1861 to April 1865

North vs. South OR: United States of America vs. Confederate

States of America OR: Union vs. Confederacy

The main cause of the war: the issue of slavery

Fought in America, mostly in the South– it is the largest war ever fought on U.S. soil

the Civil War: a summary

The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history with 620,000 deaths

In no other war has America lost so many people

In fact, only with our most recent wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, has the total number of deaths in ALL wars ever fought equaled that killed in the 4 years of the Civil War

For example: Civil War deaths = 620,000

Total deaths from all other American Wars (Revolutionary War to modern-day war in Iraq & Afghanistan) = 655,750

United States of America

23 states led by President Abraham

Lincoln (who was born in Kentucky)

Confederate States of America

11 states that had seceded (secede = to break away) from the U.S.

Led by President Jefferson Davis (who was born in Kentucky)

USA vs. CSA

All 11 CSA states were slave states

Most of the 23 USA states were free states– however, 4 slave states remained in the Union and did not secede: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

These slave states that stayed in the Union were known as border states

West Virginia became the 24th Union state during the Civil War, when it broke away from Virginia

It, too, was a border state– but outlawed slavery during the war

Total War

“Wounded men were brought into our house and laid side by side in our halls and rooms…carpets were so saturated with blood as to be unfit for further use.”

The Civil War is known as a total war because no American was left untouched by the conflict

Farms became battlefields

Cities became army camps & training grounds

Homes were transformed into makeshift hospitals

The Civil War is also considered the first modern war

The armies were equipped with new weapons and instruments of war:• artillery with “rifled” or grooved barrels for

greater accuracy• repeating rifles• ironclad ships• observation balloons

Modern War

The Union (North) won the Civil War

The war changed our nation in two important ways

1. It established our identity as nation that could withstand/survive any challenge– even a war between the states (and since 1865, no state has tried to secede)

2. The war helped change the laws to give “liberty for all” in the U.S.– slavery was abolished (although the road to true equality has been a long one)

Outcome of the War