ReconstructionReview of the Civil War

Tuesday, September 8, 2015Objective

The student will be able to state the primary causes of the Civil War through discussion.

Do Now• What is “a” civil war? How would this be

different from the American Civil War?• Some say a civil war is the most brutal of all

wars. Do you agree or disagree, and why?

Vocabulary

State your best guess what the meanings are of the following words:• Reconstruction –• Secession• Confederacy• Civil War

Vocabulary

• Reconstruction – The period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877, primarily how the Federal government readmitted the southern states who seceded from the union.

• Secession – The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.

• Confederacy – The group of Southern states who seceded from the Union in 1861. They considered themselves a new country: The Confederate States of America.

Vocabulary (cont

• Civil War – The war between the United States and the Confederate States between 1861 and 1865.

When was the Civil War fought?• The war began when the Confederates

bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

• The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

Where was the Civil War fought?

• The Civil War was fought in thousands of different places, from southern Pennsylvania to Texas; from New Mexico to the Florida coast.

• The majority of the fighting took place in the states of Virginia and Tennessee.

• The Civil War was also contested on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River.

How many soldiers fought in the Civil War?

• At the beginning of the war the Northern states had a combined population of 22 million people.

• The Southern states had a combined population of about 9 million.

• This disparity was reflected in the size of the armies in the field. The Union forces outnumbered the Confederates roughly two to one.

How many soldiers died in the Civil War?

• Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War.

• A recent study puts the number of dead as high as 850,000.

What caused the Civil War?

• Uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.

• When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.

• The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries."

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