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Get out your textbook.

1.What page does the Unit on the Civil War start on?

2.Evaluate and tell me about the art on that page. (What is going on? What is the emotion the artist is trying to convey? What kind of

people are in the picture?)

Secession & Civil War

Yes, take notes.

K-W-L (output)

What do you already KNOW about the Civil War?

What do you WANT to learn?

It’s

1860

• Large cities. New York, Boston, and other major cities tripled or even quadrupled in size from 1820 to 1860 as people left their farms to find work in the cities.

• Semipro organized baseball clubs had sprung up all over New York. First officially organized baseball game played in California was in 1860

• Professional football began in Germany

The North – New York City 1860

1860

• Most states had free public schools• Higher education became possible for women,

but they were still expected to marry and stay at home with their children.

• John Brown had just been hanged in December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The South - Charleston, SC 1860

The West - Nevada in 1860

• First white settlement in Idaho• The Pony Express begins its first run • Wiyot Massacre: 80 to 250 Wiyot people

were killed on Indian Island, near Eureka, California.

Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S.

presidential candidate for the Republican Party.

The election of 1860 had four candidates.

Yay!

The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union.

However, the South felt it no longer had a voice in the national government and did not see how it could remain in the Union.

At a state convention held six weeks after Election Day, South Carolina legislators voted to secede. It was a unanimous vote.

secede (v.): to make a formal withdrawal of membership from an organization or alliance

unanimous (adj): everyone in agreement

South Carolina was the first southern state to leave the Union.

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Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned South

Carolina’s action.

However, he did not use force to prevent it.

Within weeks, six other Southern states

followed South Carolina.

First States to SecedeSo. CarolinaDec. 20, 1860

MississippiJan. 9, 1861

FloridaJan. 10, 1861

AlabamaJan. 11, 1861

GeorgiaJan.19, 1861

LouisianaJan 26, 1861

These were all

before Lincoln

even took

office!

The others seceded: TexasMarch 2, 1861

VirginiaApril 17, 1861

ArkansasMay 6, 1861

North CarolinaMay 20, 1861

TennesseeJune 8, 1861

Fort Sumter, April 11

The others seceded: TexasMarch 2, 1861

VirginiaApril 17, 1861ArkansasMay 6, 1861North CarolinaMay 20, 1861TennesseeJune 8, 1861

Virginia split

into TWO

STATES…

West Virginia

stayed with the

Union (even

though they were

still a slave state)

The states with the largest enslaved populations seceded.

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By 1861, 11 states had seceded from the United

States.

Hey! Let’s make a

new government!

Yah-Yah!

Confederate States of America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTu1GDi_w

DixielandUnion Version :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ra9cXx1-o&feature=related

Jefferson Davis, former Secretary of War under Pres. Franklin Pierce and then Mississippi Senator, became president of the Confederate States of America

President Davis’

inauguration February,

1861

President Lincoln’s inauguration March, 1861

Compare

• closely resembled the U.S. Constitution.

• stressed the independence of each state.

• implied that states had the right to secede.

• forbid importing new slaves from other countries.

The constitution of the Confederate States of America:

Losing Control

When the Southern states seceded, they took control of post offices, forts, and other federal property in their states.

On December 26, 1860, U.S. Major Robert Anderson moved his men into Fort Sumter, a key fort in South Carolina.

The Confederacy objected; this was in the South. They demanded Anderson abandon the fort, but he refused.

Fort Sumter

Sketch in your notes…

• Major Anderson sent word to President Buchanan that supplies at the fort were almost gone, and if more supplies weren’t sent soon, the fort would be lost to Confederate control. Buchanan ignored his request. • Anderson tried again once President

Lincoln was in office.

A Tough Decision

• Lincoln had a few choices:

• He could send supplies to the fort. • He could send troops to the fort to free the

Anderson and his men. • He could choose to do nothing at all which

would mean he was giving the fort up to the Confederacy.

A Tough Decision

Talk with a shoulder partner about what Lincoln should do….

Lincoln’s ChoicePresident Lincoln decided that he should send supply ships to the fort and wait to see how Southerners would react.

Robert Anderson was an instructor at West Point Military Academy. His favorite student? ….P. Beauregard!

• On April 10, 1861, Confederate Gen. Beauregard, knowing the supply ships were on their way, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Anderson refused.

• On April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate forces opened fire on the fort.

Interesting

Note:

At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter. This event was the

start of the American Civil War.

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President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion.

Many young men jumped at the chance thinking it would be a quick 3 months battle and they would come home.

The war lasted 4 years.

April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865

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Consider the advantages/

disadvantages of the North and South.

Explain 3 reasons the

North had more advantage than

the South

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Railroad Lines, Railroad Lines, 18601860

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