Civil War and Reconstruction

Where first shot was fired that began the civil war.

Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.

Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.

during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way.

Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865

States want to limit the power and influence of the federal government (ex: nullification)

1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins

(AL) , Issued by Abraham Lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

larger population, most of the factories to make supplies, most of the railroads located in the north, strong Navy, more money, they had an established government

Excellent military leaders, strong fighting spirit, knew the land

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

(1809-1865) Sixteenth president of the United States, he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln- Douglas debates. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but he was determined to preserve the Union. He was assassinated in 1865.

President of the Confederate States of America

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln