Chapter 13 – Civil WarChapter 13, Section 1

Here comes the war…

Welcome to War….The American Civil War left over ___________ dead (_________war in US History).Close to ½ of all men who fought became _________ (killed or wounded).Southerners saw it as a war of independence over a new __________ ___________. Northerners saw it as a war to restore a __________ union and apply morality to a dysfunctional South.

A new kind of war…

After Fort Sumter fell, Lincoln sent __________to put down a “___________”.___________were still in doubt but the rest were not – the South succeeded and the North prepared for war.

Comparing the Sides…NORTH SOUTH

____________people _________ people(includes 3.6 mil _______.)

22,000 miles of _________ 9.000 miles of _________More factories, factory workers, money, more bank credit, more ships, more locomotives, more steel, more iron, more farm machinery, more firearms

Glutted with staple crops – tobacco, cotton, and rice. Had to export it.

In 1862, used freed blacks to fight (185,000 did)

Did not employ blacks in military

Southern Delusion…

South lived deluded lives. They believed that “________ ________”. And they thought the British and French would break through the Northern _________ to get their _____ But it didn’t happen.They also thought that Southern men could easily whip the less ________ North. Again with the modernization of war fair it didn’t happen.

Comparing the Sides…NORTH SOUTH

Capitol – ____________ Capitol – ______________

President ______________ President _____________

Primary General – __________________________________________

Primary General – ______________________________________

How they gonna win…The North expected a _________(6 months max) but that didn’t happen either. Ended up lasting 4 years!The North would have to actually __________ ______the South, all the South had to do was walk-away and break free to win

The RifleThe smoothbore flintlock muskets were replaced by the “_____” (so called because of the barrel was “rifled” – cut with spiral grooves, to spin the bullet and made it more accurate up to 500 ft. instead of 150 ft.). Also the “______” – which used a new chemical (fluminate of mercury) enclosed in a cap to make the explosion. Also instead of muzzle loaded they were “_______ ________” (loaded from back – breech)

IMPORTANCE OF RR

Railroads became extremely important in the area of supply lines and during the war the focus shifted from fighting men to destroying lines of RR and the __________(of goods and men) and communications they allowed.Making it a War of ________The North’s blockades called “_______”after a Anaconda

People’s War

First time in history a war was covered in depth by the ______.I.E. – ______________ alone had 40 men in field and ½ mil. $ spent____________and his large crew took photos his “___________ ______” was a wonder.

Opportunities for the Fairer Sex

With many historical wars – while the men run out to fight, opportunities for women become available and advancement is made._____________– (1861) 1st Superintendent of Women Nurses.______________worked as a nurse for Miss Dix

Clara Barton___________________, after

war spent 4 years searching for missing Union soldiers, identified 1000s of graves at ______________ (Confederate Prisoner of War Camp in Georgia)Eventually would be a founder of the ________ ____________

Border StatesWho were they (page 340). There were ‘border states’ that stayed in the Union (________ _______) even though many in the states had many conflicting alliances, some had slaver, some fought for the confederacy, nearly all had conflict.

Lincoln holds Maryland

DC was surrounded on 3 sides by _____.Lincoln knew he would have to suspend some parts of the __________ to save the whole thingIn MD – he imposed ___________, supressed Newspapers, arrested civilians, and evne refused to let them appear before a civilian judge (suspending ______________________– which allows a judge to free an individual who is unfairly incarcerated.

Suspending Writ of Habeaus Corpus

______________issued a writ of HC for a secessionist named Merryman, and said Lincoln couldn’t suspend it only Congress. Lincoln basically said too bad and he _________ it – trying to keep insurrections down.MD __________ a Union state through these type of actions though deeply divided.