Stepping Stone to

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• Stepping Stone to
• Total War

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• Total War a war aiming at the total destruction
  of the enemy.

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• Both sides were willing to sacrifice the 4 Ms of
  Total War.
• Manpower
• Material Resources
• Money
• Minds

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• Manpower (People power)
• Advantage to the North.
• Norths population 19,000,000
• Souths population 9,000,000 (3,000,000 of which
  were slaves)

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• Before the Civil War the U.S. had never mobilized
  more than 1 of the total population.
• But during the Civil War the north mobilized 10,
  and the south mobilized 20.

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• Material Resources
• THE NORTHS BIGGEST ADVANTAGE!!!
• The north had 90 of the industry.

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• Monetary Resources (Money)
• The south relied on selling raw materials to make
  money, but when the war broke out the north put a
  blockade on all southern ports.

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• The south had to tax people and ask women to give
  up their jewelry to help pay for the war.

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• The North introduced the first income tax to pay
  for the war, and also sold war bonds in lower
  denominations so more people could buy them.

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• Minds (Propaganda)
• The south was fighting for
• States Rights.

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• The north was fighting to save the union. (When
  Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the
  north was now fighting to end slavery)

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• Total Victory

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• Neither side would give up until they had a total
  victory over the other.

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• This was the first war where a Grand Strategy
  was devised at the beginning of the War.

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• War Strategy
• for the
• North

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• The Anaconda Plan
• Blockade Southern Ports
• Take the Mississippi River (cutting the CSA in
  half)
• Capture Richmond, Virginia

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• The souths strategy was simple, they fought a
  defensive war.

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• Total Destruction
• This was planned and practiced by the North to
  defeat the south.
• Shermans March to the Sea He destroyed
  everything along a 75 mile wide path from Atlanta
  to Savanna.