Civil War 1861-1865PERSIA

North• Politics• Economics• Religion?• Social• Intellectual• Arts

South• Politics• Economics• Religion?• Social• Intellectual• Arts

Advantages & Disadvantages• North

Advantages:• 1. Extensive railroad network• 2. Strong industrial base• 3. Superior Navy• 4. Larger population• 5. Abundant supply of food

Disadvantages:1. Shortage of experienced & skilled military commanders

2. A divided population that did not fully support the war

• SouthAdvantages:

• 1. A defensive war fought on their home territory

• A long coastline that would be difficult to blockade

• 3. An important cash crop in cotton

• 4. A group of experienced and skilled military commanders

• 5. A close economic relationship with Great Britain

Disadvantages:1. A smaller population than the North2. A smaller industrial base than the North

Border States• Importance:

– Strategic

location– Important

industrial and

agricultural

resources

Key border

states=

Kentucky and

Maryland

Battles & leaders

• Key battle to know= Antietam– Why? – This Union victory

persuaded England and France to remain neutral. While both European powers saw advantages in a divided America, they followed a cautious policy toward both the North and South

– This Union victory enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• HINT– APUSH writers generally

ignore the battles and leaders of the Civil War. Need to remember Antietam for sure though. But…150 year anniversary of Civil War was last year…sometimes that makes a difference

Turning Points

Vicksburg– West– Siege of city– Took Mississippi River and split Confederacy

Gettysburg-Confederate move into North again

-most crucial battle & bloodiest

-South CAN be beat & never regain offensive again

Emancipation Proclamation• Lincoln delayed issuing it because he didn’t

want to antagonize the slave owners in the border states

• North originally went to war to preserve the Union. The EP strengthens the Union’s moral cause

• The EP rallied anti-slavery support in England and France

• The EP did NOT free slaves in the border states• The EP freed only slaves in the Confederate

states that were still in rebellion

HINT- It is important to focus on what the EP did and did not do. It did Significantly enhance the Union’s moral cause. However, it did not actuallyfree a single slave. Much stronger on proclamation than on emancipation.Slavery was legally abolished by the 13th Amendment.

Key Political Actions-put the “P” in PERSIA!

• Congressional Actions– National banking system to

provide a uniform national currency

– Chartered two corporations- the Union Pacific RR and Central Pacific RR- to build a transcontinental RR connecting Omaha, NE with Sacramento, CA

– Homestead Act of 1862- offered cheap & sometimes free land to people who would settle West and improve the land

– Passes high tariffs to protect American industry from foreign competition

• Expansion of Presidential Power

• Lincoln found the war required active & prompt presidential action

• Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus for everyone living between D.C. and Philly

• Decide whether you think justified? National security? Abuse of power?

Reconstruction Amendments13th Amendment- 1865

*Abolished slavery & involuntary servitude

*Completed the work of the EP

14th Amendment- 1868

*Made former slaves citizens, invalidating the Dred Scott decision

*Provided equal protection of the laws for all citizens

*Enforced congressional legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

15th Amendment- 1870

*amendment provided suffrage for black males

*stirred controversy among women’s rights advocates….

*but some supported it like Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe & Frederick Douglas

*others opposed like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton- tried for universal suffrage amendment-failed

Radical Reconstruction

• Causes:– Former Confederates

elected to Congress– Black codes enacted

in South– Race riots in New

Orleans & Memphis– Attempts in the South

to undermine the 14th Amendment

• Programs, Policies and Achievements:– Military occupation of South

permitted– Punishment of Confederate

leaders became policy– Restrictions placed on power

of President Andrew Johnson– House of Rep impeached

Johnson because he obstructed enforcement of the Reconstruction Acts

Achievements-Public school systems in the

South were improved-African Americans were elected

to the House & Senate

Plight of African Americans

• From slaves to sharecroppers:– Majority of freedmen

entered sharecropping arrangements with their former masters

– Sharecropping led to a cycle of debt & depression for Southern tenant farmers

– Freedmen DID NOT receive 40 acres & a mule in the South- where?

• Black Codes:– Codes passed by Southern

state legislatures– Intended to place limits on

the socioeconomic opportunities & freedoms open to Black people

– The codes forced Black Americans to work under conditions that closely resembled slavery

– Jim Crow segregation to follow quickly to separate races