online class presentation

By Seth Tripp

• Factors that attributed to the start of the Civil War

• The Two Sides

• Major Players in the Civil War

• How the Union Accomplished Victory

• The Compromise of 1850

a. All states above the 35th parallel would be Free States

While the ones Below would be slave states.

b. Slavery would be decided in new states by popular

sovereignty, which means that state governments

should hold a vote to decide weather or not to be a

slave state.

c. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed: it said that any

runaway slaves from the south to the north should be

returned to their masters.

d. The Slave Trade would be Eliminated

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• The States Rights Debate

a. Slavery- Sothern's believed that slave ownersshould be able to take slaves in to other statesbecause they were property and even if moved tothe north the slave would still have to remain aslave. The North believed that it would be breakingthe Compromise of 1850.

b. The Dred Scott Case- Dred Scott was a slavewho’s owner moved to Maryland, a free state andwanted his freedom and the owner did not want togive him up, and when it was sent to SupremeCourt, the judge ruled that Dred Scott would remainin the possession of His Master.

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• The election of Lincoln

was the last straw for

the south because

they feared that

Lincoln would end

slavery in the south

because the ant-

slavery republicans,

which was Lincolns

party affiliation now

had the majority in

Congress.

The Union

• Consisted of all of the states above Virginia excluding Missouri.

• Anti-Slavery States

• President: Abraham Lincoln

• Generals: Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman

• Population: 22,342,2312

• Army Size at highest point: 1,000,516

• Main source of revenue: Manufacturing

• Major Victories: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh

• Total Casualties: 664,928

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• The Confederate states Consisted of all the States South of Virginia and the Ohio River including Missouri.

• President: Jefferson Davis

• Main Leaders: Robert E. Lee P.T. Beauregard

• Population:9,101,090 plus slaves

• Army Size at Highest point: 304,015

• Main Source of Revenue: Agriculture

• Major Victories: Chickamauga, Chancellorsville

• Total Casualties: 483,026

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Union

Advantages

• Banking Factories, Ships

• Experienced Government

• Higher Population

• Large Navy

• More railroads and infrastructure

Disadvantages

• No unification over slavery

• Lost a lot of Officers to the South

• Going into Unknown Lands

ConfederacyAdvantages

• Better trade relationship with Europe

• Best Military Officers

• Long Coast lines make it difficult to blockade

• Fighting on own soil

• Land in South is heavily wooded making easy ambushes and retreats

Disadvantages

• Lower population

• Little to no Industry

• Long Coastline with little Navy to Defend it

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• Born: April 27th 1822

• Graduated from U.S. Military Academy in 1843

• Leader of the Western Front and Later On would become Leader of the Union Army, and would lead Operation Overload which would lead to the Union defeat of the South.

• Great Victories: Vicksburg, Shiloh and Chattanooga

• Would later go on the be the 18th President of the U.S.

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• Born Feb. 8 1820

• First leader to use the Total War strategy; destroying moral in South

• Won The First Battle at Bull Run.

• Lead the Sherman Campaign which crippled the south and devastated the Southern peoples hopes of victory

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• Born January 19, 1807

• Commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and Overall lead general of the Confederacy.

• Major victories included: The second Manassas, Fredericksburg, and would Successfully defend Richmond, the capital of the South in 1864, and although he lost and surrendered at Appomattox to Grant he is still considered one of the best Generals in U.S. History.

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• Born January 21st 1824

• Generational leader whose family served in every single previous American War.

• Best general after Lee

• Won Victories in the first and second Manassas, and Fredericksburg, and Antietam

• Was killed accidently by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville, devastating the General Corps of the Confederates

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• Would start with the capture of Atlanta in 1864 and would leave a path of destruction to Savannah in which Total war would be implemented upon the South.

• After marching to the Sea Sherman Would take the his army north the trap Robert E. Lee in between him and General Grant

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• Lead By General Ulysses S. Grant the Overland Campaign was series of battles between Grant and Lee around Richmond which lasted until Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox. Lee strategically won many of the battles but Grant was still able to pursue Lee and confront him again and again until Lee become worn down and tired and eventually gave up.

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• This may have been one of the biggest factors that lead

to the fall of the Confederacy.

• Although Two Countries, France and Great Britain,

considered sending military help they could not give

because of either their issue with the Confederacy and its

stance on Slavery which Britain had done away with in all

of its colonies, or the fact that the other countries had

better relations with the Union because they were more

experience.

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• The War was started over the issue of states rights and

the unwillingness of either side to come to a long term

compromise on slavery.

• The South was way less well supplied, educated and

populated.

• Although the South had more General’s the

overwhelming numbers of the Navy and the Army of the

Union overcame their strategic abilities

• Slavery was banned in America after this time

• Online Sources

- Wikipedia.com

- Google.com

- http://www.victoriana.com/civilwar/soldiers.html

- http://www.shmoop.com/civil-war/statistics.html

- http://www.phil.muni.cz/~vndrzl/amstudies/civilwar_stats.htm

- http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

- http://www.historycentral.com/bio/UGENS/Index.html

- http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_strengths_and_weaknesses_of_the_Union_and_the_Confederacy_in_preparation_for_the_Civil_Wa