Warm Up

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Warm Up

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• Read Pages 15 16

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I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty
land will never be purged away but with blood.

• John Brown at his execution

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Lincoln Takes Office

• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be
  enemies. Though passion may have strained, it
  must not break our bonds of affection

• Message mix of toughness and reconciliation

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After Ft Sumter

• Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to save the Union
• VA, NC, TN and AR vote to join Confederacy

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The Border States

• MD, DE, KY, MO
• Held vital positions
• Lincoln had to keep on side of Union
• What might Lincoln have done?

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1861

• Military Strategy and Leadership

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Leaders - Union

• Abraham Lincoln
• Sec. Of War Edwin Stanton
• Sec of State Wlm Seward

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Lincoln

• 1861 Becomes president
• Rejects Confederate Peace Proposals
• Confederate secession is legally void
• Constitution is a more perfect union
• Orders organization of Army
• Calls for 75000 3 month recruits

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Leaders - Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

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                   1st National Flag"Stars and Bars"                    2nd National Flag"Stainless Banner"                    3rd National Flag
                   CSA Naval Jack1861-1863                    CSA Naval Jack1863-1865                    Battle Flag"Southern Cross"

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Pre-Civil War

• US Army 16,000 Soldiers and Officers
• Navy 42 Warships

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Officers Pick Sides

• US Military split
• Army Mostly comprised of and led by Southerners
• Navy Mostly Northerners, but few armed ships

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Strategy

• What does the North have to do to win?
• Conquer and Destroy Souths ability to fight
• Destroy Southern Institutions
• What does the South have to do to win?
• Win a Defensive War
• Make it too costly for North to want to continue
• Gain foreign support / win battles

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At the Top - North

• Winfield Scott General-In-Chief
• April 19 1861 Winfield Scott urges Lincoln to
  commission Robert E Lee

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The Anaconda Plan

• Winfield Scott
• As little bloodshed as possible
• Union Blockade
• Divide and Conquer

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The Anaconda Plan

• Blockade
• Union had 3 ships that could blockade
• Steam power
• Old Father Neptune

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Homework

• Complete Map Activity 2