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Christian Bubat Marc Krämer
Arrangement
• Reasons
• Initial position
• Development 1. half of war+ Coloured troops
• Turning point Ghettysburg+ CSS Hunley
• ResultsSources:
www.wikipedia.de
www.americancivilwar.com
Reasons
Ecomony
+ Influence
+ Slavery
=>Splitting
Initial situation
• Advantage South– Leading
– Weapons
– Training of Troops
– Navy
Confederated Union
Troops
Begin of War
• Secession of South States
• New President, Constitution and Goverment
• Failed peace conference
• Attack on Fort Sumter
Development 1. half of war• First attack of North failed
– Training
• Success in the West +Missisippi region
• South looses
• Cut of Texas and Arkansas
• >Gettysburg
Coloured troops
• Proclamation of
17th July 1862 by Lincoln
• Freedom for
3 Million Slaves
• 180.000 coloured Soldiers
The battle of Ghettysburg
July, 1863
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)
first day
second day
third day
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
50.000 dead men
23.000 union and 28.000 confederated soldiers
the CSS Hunley
first submarine used in a naval war
1864 submerged the USS Housatonic
in the harbour of Charleston
The Hunley sunk on it´s way home!
Nobody knows how!
burial of the Hunley-crew
lifted 2000
• 9 men with broken neck (probably because of the explosion) were found
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