Transcript Civil War Summary

1. Differences between the North and South
2. Missouri Compromise
Forbid Slavery above the 36 30’ line
Kept N&S states equal in the Senate
3. The Dred Scott Decision
Angered the North
Decided by the Supreme Court
Supported slavery
4. Abraham Lincoln’s Election
1860 became president
1st Republican President
Anti-Slavery
Won with only 40% of the vote
5. Abolitionists
Fought against slavery
Mostly from the North
Underground Railroad
1. South Carolina seceded from the Union.
10 other states followed.
2. Ft. Sumter
Northern Fort in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina
1st shot fired by South
War declared by North after Ft. Sumter
3. North needed to keep the border states in the Union to
protect Washington D.C.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia
4. Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the war was to preserve
the Union.
1. 1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)- both sides
realized it would be a long war.
Southern Victory
2. Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) – Afterward
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Declared freedom for all slaves in the Confederacy; not for
slaves in the northern border states.
Union Victory
3. Southern Victories
Ft. Sumter
Chancellorsville
2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
4. Northern Victories
Gettysburg (turning pt.)
Vicksburg – Took control of the Mississippi
Atlanta
5. Leaders
North
• Ulysses S. Grant : also known as “the butcher”
• William T. Sherman : famous for his “March to the Sea”
and slash and burn policy
South
• Robert E. Lee : didn’t believe in secession, but went with
his home state of Virginia.
1. General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court
House
2. About 600,000 people died; about 2% of the total population
3. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the end of the
war.
4. Andrew Johnson becomes president
5. The Reconstruction begins