The Civil War
US History – Chapter 10
Picture Analysis
• List six interesting details
• What historical event do you think is being
reenacted?
• How can you tell what the event is?
• What groups of Americans are
represented in this picture?
Essential Question
• How did the Civil War affect the United
States and its people?
The Start of the War
My Confederate
Cousin?
Civil War Charts and Graphs
• The next two slides show important
information about the North and South
• In your notes,
– List three things that would help the North
– List three things that would help the South
• Pick one thing that you think is the most
important difference between the North
and South
Civil War
• North • South
– More resources – Better military leaders
– More people – Defense of
– Moral cause • Way of life
• Preserve Union • State’s rights
• End Slavery? • American ideals?
Overview
of
Civil War
Strategy:
“Anaconda”
Plan
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
Emancipation in 1863
The Southern View of Emancipation
African-Americans in Civil War Battles
Gettysburg Casualties
Gettysburg Address
• “Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.”
– Purpose of the Introduction?
More Gettysburg Address
• “Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field
of that war.”
– Defense of War (Survival of the UNION)
End of the Gettysburg Address
• “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us -- that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion -- that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom -- and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth.”
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Confederate Prison Camp
at Point Lookout, MD
Planned to hold 10,000 men.
Had almost 50,000 at one time.
Point Lookout Memorial
of 4,000 Dead Rebel Prisoners
Union Prison Camp
at Andersonville, GA
Original Andersonville Plan
Planned to hold 10,000 men.
Had over 32,000 at one time.
Distributing “Rations”
Union “Survivors”
Union
Prisoner’s
Record
at
Andersonville
Burying Dead Union POWs