The Civil War

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The Civil War

• What if the South won??

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What Happened.

• It all started when I was first landing
  back on Earth. I was getting out of my space ship
  and I heard some kind of cannon. There were
  people shooting guns and they all had knives.
  This couldn't have been the right planet!
• So I thought.

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Some of the major events that took place during
the war are

• In February 1861 the south created a government.
  In March 1861, Lincoln's inauguration took place.
  In April 1861, the attack on Fort Sumter began
  and shots were fired, Fort Sumter ended up
  surrendering to South Carolina.
• On June 1861, the state Virginia was born and
  was admitted into the union as a state of West
  Virginia.

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• On January 1862, Lincoln issued a war ordering
  the union to launch a coordinated aggressive
  action against the confederacy.
• On June 1862, there was a war called The Battle
  of Seven Pines, this is where the confederate
  army attacked the federal forces at seven pines.

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• On September 17, 1862, Confederate forces were
  caught by General McClellan by Sharpsburg,
  Maryland.
• 2,108 Union soldiers were killed
• 9,549 wounded
• 2,700 Confederates were killed
• 9,029 wounded
• This battle did not have a certain winner, but
  the General Lee withdrew to Virginia. This was
  the bloodiest day of war.

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• On July 2, the confederates withdrew from
  Richmond and this ended the Peninsular Campaign.
  This is where General McClellan's troops left for
  Virginia.
• The Fall of Confederacy took place in January
  1865. Transportation problems and blockades
  caused severe shortages of food and supplies in
  the southern parts.

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• On March 1863, an act was passed that made all
  the men between ages 20 and 45 liable to be
  called for military service. You would not be
  called if you paid a certain fee.
• In June- July 1863 something called the
  Gettysburg Campaign happened. General Lee
  defeated union forces at Winchester, Virginia
  and all through Pennsylvania.
• Grant again attacked Confederate forces at Cold
  Harbor and he lost over 7000 men in 20 minutes.

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• On April 14, 1865, Lincolns Assassination took
  place. He was watching a play called Our
  American Cousin and was shot by John Wilkes
  Booth. A union soldier shot Booth eleven days
  after he was cornered in a burning barn. The
  four other people involved in the Assassination
  were hanged, imprisoned, and acquitted.

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The Outcome of the war was

• Many men were absent in the army and the women
  began to assume larger responsibilities in the
  workplace.
• Approximately 4 million black slaves were free.
• Still, blacks did not have equal rights until
  long after the war.
• The war set the south back at least a generation
  in industry and agriculture.

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The significant Constitutional changes made
were

• 4 million blacks became free and women kept
  gathering more responsibilities.

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How did the economy change after the war?

• The south was working slowly in their businesses.
  White farmers suffered losses and blacks started
  traveling north and west. Many slaves worked on
  farms owned by previous masters to become tenant
  farmers.

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How did the government change after the war?

• The republican party was worried that the
  Democratic Party would regain power and they
  would lose their position.

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How were the peoples' rights affected?

• Blacks in the south had the right to vote.
• They became more free and got to have a say in
  what was going on around them!

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What individuals made key contributions to the
state and the country during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln was the president during the
  Civil War and the union ended up winning.

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What political and military developments occurred
during the Civil War? What effect did those
developments have on the outcome of the war?

• The political and military were split up
  equally. The effects this had was that it changed
  many peoples lives.

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• As you can tell, a lot of things have happened
  since the Civil War. If the South won then you
  wouldnt have ever heard about any of this.
  Luckily, the Union won! Could you even imagine
  the South winning?

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Thanks for Watching

• By Shannon F.