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BYRDs
I. Spread of Slavery?
A) Compromise of 1850
C)
Results?
1. Only 7 of 44 Democrats survived the next
election in Congress
2. Republican Party became Relevant Again
(anti-slavery stance)
3. Civil War among people in Kansas
D) Lincoln
Lincoln quoted Mark
3:25 A house
divided against itself
cannot stand
Election of 1860
Lincoln Republicans
win, only because of
a divided Democratic
II. War!!!
The election of Lincoln was received as a
declaration of War in the South
South Carolina: Succession fires on Fort
Sumter
A) Escalation of War
Jefferson Davis is elected President of
the Confederate States of America.
7 states succeed to join S.C.
C) Advantages
C) Advantages
D) Strategery!
Anaconda Plan! ***
Northern Battle Plan
1. Blockade the Coast (no
supplies to South)
2. Capture / Control the
Mississippi River
3. Capture Confederate
Capitol: Richmond
D) Strategery Cont.
Defensive
SURVIVE!
III. 1861
Results
Confederates: Overconfident
Union: Demoralized; McDowell fired!
George B. McClellan promoted
IV. 1862
Civil War: 1861-1865
A) Peninsular Campaign
Peninsular Campaign
Peninsular Campaign
U.S.S. Monitor
US. Ironclad
Rotating turret with two cannons
Battled the Merrimac for 4 hrs.
U.S.S. Monitor
No winner
Monitor prevented Merrimac from
destroying US fleet
C) Valley Campaign
C) Valley Campaign
E) 2nd Manassas
Lee sends J.E.B. Stuart to raid
Union Rear
Lee sends Stonewall Jackson to
attack Popes flank
Lee then hits him head on and
wipes Popes army out
F) Antietam
Invade Maryland
F) Antietam
F) Antietam
F) Antietam
F) Antietam
12,000 10,000
G) Fredericksburg*
G) Fredericksburg
V. 1863
Civil War: 1861-1865
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville