Chapters16/17- Civil War Causes

Things to Remember

  1. Union/ North-
  2. Led by Abraham Lincoln
  3. Wanted to just keep U.S. together
  4. Had to keep Maryland in the Union because of Washington D.C.
  5. Strategy was to block Southern ports to prevent sale of cotton (King Cotton)
  6. Border states= Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
  7. Union did not require every man over 18 to serve in the military
  8. Attributes
  9. Had more railroads then south (twice as many miles)
  10. Had most of the nation’s industry but did have agriculture
  11. Confederacy/ South
  12. Believed sale of cotton would get European aid (King Cotton)
  13. Mostly agricultural
  14. Advantage
  15. superior military leadership (Robert E. Lee)
  16. Disadvantages
  17. Did not have the industry of the north
  18. Slavery reduced men who could serve in the army
  19. Poor internal transportation (less railroad)
  20. Civil War/ Battles
  21. New technology made weapons for farther with more accuracy (more casualties)
  22. Minie ball
  23. Rifle
  24. Iron clad
  25. Start in 1861=Southern attack on fort in harbor of Charleston, S.C. (Fort Sumner)
  26. Antietam- most casualties in ONE DAY
  27. War was most destructive in South because most battles were there
  28. Southern surrender was at Appomattox Courthouse
  29. Vicksburg siege cut Confederacy in two at Mississippi River
  30. After loss at Gettysburg in 1863 the South would never cross into Union territory again
  31. War ended in 1865 with Lee surrender to Grant
  32. Confederate officers could leave with everything except weapons
  33. Lincoln
  34. Stated in 2nd address he planned to work toward peace and unity rebuild the Union
  35. Primary goal was to preserve the Union
  36. Exercised Judicial Review by ignoring Justice Taney’s ruling
  37. Unlike Davis, Lincoln didn’t believe the states had the right to leave the union
  38. Emancipation Proclamation
  39. Gave freedom to slaves living in the Confederacy
  40. shifted his goal in war from restoring peace to ending slavery
  41. led to 13th amendment of ending slavery
  42. Gettysburg Address
  43. Similar to the Declaration of Independence because it supported ideas of self-government human rights for ALL
  44. End of War
  45. More power was given to federal government
  46. People
  47. Carney, Bazaar, and Chamberlain all minorities who won a Congressional Medal of Honor
  48. Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederacy
  49. Alexander Stephens and Charles Sumner had differing ideas on slavery