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American Civil War Background: In the mid-19th century, while the United States was
experiencing an era of economic growth. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well
established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South's economy was
based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves in cotton and
tobacco plantations. Abolitionist sentiment grew in the North after the 1830s and northern
opposition to slavery's extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that
the existence of slavery in america (the base of the economy in the southern States)was in danger.
The Facts: The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States
after several Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of
America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The states that remained were known as the "Union"
or the "North". After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed
much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the
difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed
slaves began.
Volunteer ACTIVITIES.
1. A brief biography of Lincoln: a presentation with the most important facts of his life.
2. A description of Abraham Lincoln's Monument in Washington D.C.
ACTIVITIES.
1. Why the southern States proclaimed the Confederacy?.
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2. Why southern States were confident of their victory?.
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3. What were the economic differences between North and South before the Civil War?.
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4. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?.
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5. What proclaimed the 13th Amendment?.
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6. What happened on April 15th 1865?.
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7. True or false, convert false sentences into true.
Ulyses S. Grant was the commander in chief of Half million of people died in the American
the Union Army. Civil War.
13th Amendment was passed by unanimity in the 150.000 african-americans volunteered in the
Congress and Senate. Union Army.
John W. Booth stabbed Lincoln in the Carnegie's South's economy was based on large-scale
Theatre. plantations of custard apples and tomatoes.