Standards for The Civil War SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War. SS5G1 The student will locate important places in the United States. SS5E2 The student will describe the functions of four major sectors in the U. S. economy.
Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War was not over slavery, it was a war over States Rights. The South wanted to preserve their way of life. Slavery is an underlying cause of the Civil War and the South felt that the states themselves should have the right to choose if it should be a slave state or a free state, not have the National Government tell them what the states should be.
Abolitionists, such as John Brown, take matters into their own hands in order to end slavery.
Harriet Tubman helped leed many slaves our of slavery using the underground railroad.
The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, gave Northerner's a glimpse into slavery. The lead many people to become abolitionists.
Even though the North and South could not see eye to eye on how new states were admitted into the nation; it was not until the election of Lincoln that the South decided to seceded. Thus, the beginning of the Civil War.
The Civil War
Leaders of the Union
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the Union.
Ulysses S. Grant was the leader of the Union Army.
William Sherman was a General in the Union Army who burned Atlanta.
Leaders of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy.
Robert E. Lee was the leader of the Confederate Army.
Robert "Stonewall" Jackson was a general of the Confederate Army.
Lee brings the war to the North. Gettysburg becomes the turning point of the war.
The Emancipation Proclamation makes the war about slavery and ends slavery in the Confederate States.
Sherman takes Atlanta, which is the beginning of the end for the South.
The Civil War ends with Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee was the General of the Confederate Army.