Hybridoma Technology ( Production , Purification , and Application )
The Civil War (USHC 3.2)
1.
2. Summarize the course of the Civil
War and its impact on democracy,
including the major turning
points; the impact of the
Emancipation Proclamation; the
unequal Treatment afforded to
African American military units;
the geographic, economic, and
political factors in the defeat of
the Confederacy; and the
ultimate defeat of the idea of
secession.
3. “A House divided against
itself cannot stand.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
5. Causes of
Southern Secession
• Conflicting views about federal authority and
states’ rights
• Economic and cultural differences between the
agricultural South and the industrializing North
• Debates over the expansion of slavery into the
western territories
• The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
6. Confederate States of America
(CSA)
First National Flag of the CSA
Jefferson Davis,
President
1861-1865
8. Confederate Advantages
• More Competent Generals
– Southern Military Tradition
• “Home Field Advantage”
• DEFENSE as objective
– NOT conquest
• HIGH STAKES
– Survival as objective
11. Decisive Battles
of the Civil War
Battle Year
Victor
SignificanceUnion Confed.
Fort Sumter
1861 X Began the Civil War
Antietam
(Sharpsburg) 1862 Tactical Draw
Union Strategic
Bloodiest Single Day of War
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
(PA) 1863 X Lee’s first tactical defeat
Vicksburg
(MS) 1863 X
Confederates lose control of
Mississippi River
Appomattox
Court House
1865 X Lee surrenders to Grant
12. Antietam
Lee and McClellan
fought to a tactical
draw in the bloodiest
single day of the war.
Afterwards,
Lee retreated to VA.
STRATEGIC VICTORY
for the Union
September, 1862
CASUALTIES USA CSA
13. The Emancipation Proclamation
"That on the first day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any State or designated part of a
State, the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, shall be
then, thenceforward, and forever free….
“Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, by virtue of the power
in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of
the Army and Navy of the United States in
time of actual armed rebellion against the
authority and government of the United
States, and as a fit and necessary war
measure for suppressing said rebellion…”
1/1/1863
DOCUMENT
16. Lincoln’s #1 War Aim
Preserve the Union
–All other goals were
secondary
–Emancipation a goal IN
ADDITION
17. Engagement State Victory
Chancellorsville VA Confederate
Gettysburg PA Union
Vicksburg MS Union
1863
Decisive Engagements
Lee
In 1863, Lee won
his greatest victory
and suffered his
greatest defeat.
19. After his victory at
Chancellorsville, Lee
invaded Pennsylvania
in hopes of gaining a
decisive victory on
Northern soil.
Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
20. Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
CASUALTIES UNION CONFEDERATE
After three days of
fighting, Lee failed to
defeat the Union Army.
LEE’S FIRST
TACTICAL DEFEAT
22. A Turning Point...
The back-to-back losses at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
were severe blows to the
Confederacy.
What effect did these battles have
on the Copperhead movement in
the North?
27. The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground, which depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry Regiment at the attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863.