Christian Bubat Marc Kr

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Christian Bubat Marc Krämer
American Civil War 1861 - 1865
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Arrangement

• Reasons
• Initial position
• Development 1. half of war
• Coloured troops
• Turning point Ghettysburg
• CSS Hunley
• Results

Sources www.wikipedia.de www.americancivilwar.com
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Reasons

• Ecomony
• Influence
• Slavery
• gtSplitting

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Initial situation

• Advantage South
• Leading
• Weapons
• Training of Troops
• Navy

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Confederated
Union
verus
Troops
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Begin of War

• Secession of South States
• New President, Constitution and Goverment
• Failed peace conference
• Attack on Fort Sumter

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Development 1. half of war

• First attack of North failed
• Training
• Success in the West Missisippi region
• South looses
• Cut of Texas and Arkansas
• gtGettysburg

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Coloured troops

• Proclamation of
• 17th July 1862 by Lincoln
• Freedom for
• 3 Million Slaves
• 180.000 coloured Soldiers

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The battle of GhettysburgJuly, 1863
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• In July, 1st, 2nd and 3rd of 1863
• Army of northern Virginia
• (General Robert E. Lee, 75000 men)
• Union Army of the Potomac
• (General George Meade, 97000men)

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first day
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second day
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third day
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• It remains the great battle of the war although
  it did not end the war

There fought and died more men than in
any other battle of the war
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50.000 dead men23.000 union and 28.000
confederated soldiers
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• the CSS Hunley

first submarine used in a naval war
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1864 submerged the USS Housatonicin the harbour
of Charleston

• The Hunley sunk on its way home!
• Nobody knows how!

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burial of the Hunley-crew
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lifted 2000

• 9 men with broken neck (probably because of the
  explosion) were found

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Results of the war

• 620.000 killed soldiers
• End of slavery
• 4 million slaves set free
• economic adjustment of southern states
• beginning of imperialism
• 3 billion Dollar debt for the union
• centralization of the USA