STRATEGIES OF THE CIVIL WAR
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T H E A RT S O F D E AT H
STRATEGIES OF THE CIVIL WAR
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FOCUS QUESTION
• What do teams need to do in order to win a game?
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OBJECTIVES
After today’s lesson, you will:• Outline the major strengths and weaknesses of
both sides in the Civil War• Describe the strategies of the two sides during
the Civil War
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BREAKDOWN OF THE UNION
• Military commanders in the South turned over U.S. forts and arsenals to Southern forces• Allowed growth of the Confederate Army• Left the Union weak in the South
• By April 1861, the Union held three forts in the South
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FORT SUMTER
• Bombing of Fort Sumter starts the war• Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers• “Put down the insurrection”• Three month enlistment
• Four states in the Upper South secede
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FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
• “One Big Battle” mentality• Met in Northern Virginia on July 21, 1861• Southerners proved victorious• Victory was not decisive
• Both sides hunkered down for a long war
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Prepare a chart comparing the advantages of disadvantages held by the North and the South(see pp. 360-362 in your texts)
• Identify three advantages held by the North• Identify three advantages held by the South• Identify three disadvantages held by the North• Identify three disadvantages held by the South
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
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ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
NORTH
SOUTH
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STRATEGIES OF THE WAR
Union Plan• Anaconda Plan• Designed by Winfield Scott
1. Blockade the South2. Seize control of the Mississippi3. Capture Richmond
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STRATEGIES OF THE WAR
Southern Plan• “Active Defense”
1. Defend Southern territory2. Attack when holding the advantage3. Encourage foreign support
• Prolong the War
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RESULTS
• Northern strategy and economy defeated the South• Union able to set the pace of the war• Union used its superior economy to defeat the
South• War effectively ends on April 9, 1865 with the
surrender at Appomattox Court House
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SUMMARY
• Explain in two-three sentences how this lesson could be improved