Log Question #13

What would the country be like today if the South had won the Civil War? Would we have as many freedoms and liberties?

Unit 1/Day 10

The Civil War Ends

Reconstruction

Grant vs Lee

•Graduate from West Point, 1843

•Served in the Mexican War

•Shoe salesman before the War

•Successful in Western Theater

•Appointed by Lincoln in 1864 to command all Union

forces

•The Butcher

•Unconditional Surrender Grant

•Supported “total war” concept

•Graduate from West Point, 1843

•Served in the Mexican War

•Shoe salesman before the War

•Successful in Western Theater

•Appointed by Lincoln in 1864 to command all Union

forces

•The Butcher

•Unconditional Surrender Grant

•Supported “total war” concept

•Graduate from West Point, 1829

•Served in the Mexican War

•Arrested John Brown

•Lincoln asked Lee to head up the Union Army

•Refused because of loyalty to Virginia.

•Defeated Union in battles from 1861 to 1863 in the

Eastern theater

•Excellent in military strategy

•Graduate from West Point, 1829

•Served in the Mexican War

•Arrested John Brown

•Lincoln asked Lee to head up the Union Army

•Refused because of loyalty to Virginia.

•Defeated Union in battles from 1861 to 1863 in the

Eastern theater

•Excellent in military strategy

Grant commanded the Army of the Potomac in the East and

was instructed by Lincoln to force General Lee to surrender.

Gettysburg, PA – The most decisive battle of the War.

Fighting lasted for three days – 51,000 killed or wounded.

Lincoln gives famous ‘Gettysburg Address’

Vicksburg, MS – Important due to its position along the bluffs of the Mississippi River. Falls in

May of 1863.

Sherman’s March Grant appointed his 2nd in command

General William T. Sherman to head up the Army of the West.

It is here that Lincoln, Grant and Sherman devise a new strategy of

“total war.”

Total War - To make war as horrible and destructive as possible to force

your enemy to surrender.

Total war brings the civilian population into the war to demoralize

the enemy and force them to surrender.

Total War 1

Total War 3

Picture: Richmond

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Horrors of War 3

Horrors of War 1

Surrender at Appomattox

April 3rd, 1865 – Lee and Grant meet in a private home in Appomattox, Virginia to arrange a Confederate surrender.

Chart: Total Deaths

Iraq 2,900

Persian 300

Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the official end of the war.

Throughout the winter of 1864–1865, a group of Southern conspirators in Washington, D.C., had plotted to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war.

After several unsuccessful attempts, their leader, John Wilkes Booth, assigned members of his group to assassinate top Union officials and took out Lincoln himself.

Goodbye Lincoln

Sketch of Lincoln’s death

• 1865-1877 – The rebuilding of the nation after the Civil War.

• Lincoln’s plan called for Confederate states to be allowed to form new governments and elect officials.

• Some northern Radical Republicans oppose this plan as they want to eliminate slavery.

•Remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War.

•Lincoln chose him as his VP to help with the

South’s Reconstruction.

•Was a democrat, southern, and unpopular

with Congress.

•Was the wrong man at the wrong time to be U.S.

president….

•Impeached for removing Edwin Stanton from Sec. of

War position. John Picture background info

Scalawags and Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags – Southerners who joined the North Republicans.

• Carpetbaggers – Northerners who moved to the South.

Hiram Revels

• Attended Knox College in Illinois.

• Recruited blacks to fight in the Civil War.

• The first African American U.S. Senator.

Ku Klux Klan• Opposed Reconstruction.

• Attempted to destroy the Northern Republican Party.

Key Amendments

• 13th Amendment – Outlawed slavery.

• 14th Amendment – Gave constitutional rights to ALL citizens.

• 15th Amendment – Gave all naturalized males – regardless of race – the right to vote.

Homework

• Page 183 #1

• Page 189 #1

• De tomorrow.