b. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg,
Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast,Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea,
and Andersonville
• Civil War
• Lasted from April 1861 until April 1865
• Was between Union (North) and Confederate (South)
• Underlying causes were States Rights, Slavery and Economic differences between the North and South
• Immediate causes were John Browns Raid and the Election of Abraham Lincoln
• Important Battles:
– War Started at Ft Sumter South Carolina
– Antietam – Union victory Bloodiest one day battle of War, almost 25,000 killed
– Gettysburg- Union Victory, turning point the war, South did not win another Major battle afterwards
– War Ended at Appomattox Courthouse with surrender of Lee (Confederate) to Grant (Union)
• War In Ga
• Union General Sherman left Chattanooga Tennessee and attacked Ga headed for Atlanta.
• Ga was the stronghold of the Confederacy supplying the MOST supplies of Confederate State. Ga had the Most factories and better Railroads. Sherman knew that if he could break GA than the war would be over.
• Sherman laid siege (surrounded) to Atlanta, captured it, and eventually burned it to the ground. At this time the population of Atlanta was about 15,000 people.
• Sherman then marched to Savannah, captured the city and “gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.”
• Andersonville was the most famous civil war prison in the South. It held Union prisoners of war and had extremely horrible conditions in which many soldiers died.(Compare to Camp Douglas in North)
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The war was NOT going well for the North and Many northerners wanted to let the South GO AWAY.
• Lincoln, in an effort to “rally” the north, turned the war into a MORAL war to End slavery.
Although Lincoln was NOT against slavery, shortly after the Battle of Antietam, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared “ALL slaves in the Rebelling States are declared FREE.” He did not declare slavery illegal in the United States.
Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast,Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea,
and Andersonville
• Civil War
• Lasted from April 1861 until April 1865
• Was between Union (North) and Confederate (South)
• Underlying causes were States Rights, Slavery and Economic differences between the North and South
• Immediate causes were John Browns Raid and the Election of Abraham Lincoln
• Important Battles:
– War Started at Ft Sumter South Carolina
– Antietam – Union victory Bloodiest one day battle of War, almost 25,000 killed
– Gettysburg- Union Victory, turning point the war, South did not win another Major battle afterwards
– War Ended at Appomattox Courthouse with surrender of Lee (Confederate) to Grant (Union)
• War In Ga
• Union General Sherman left Chattanooga Tennessee and attacked Ga headed for Atlanta.
• Ga was the stronghold of the Confederacy supplying the MOST supplies of Confederate State. Ga had the Most factories and better Railroads. Sherman knew that if he could break GA than the war would be over.
• Sherman laid siege (surrounded) to Atlanta, captured it, and eventually burned it to the ground. At this time the population of Atlanta was about 15,000 people.
• Sherman then marched to Savannah, captured the city and “gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.”
• Andersonville was the most famous civil war prison in the South. It held Union prisoners of war and had extremely horrible conditions in which many soldiers died.(Compare to Camp Douglas in North)
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The war was NOT going well for the North and Many northerners wanted to let the South GO AWAY.
• Lincoln, in an effort to “rally” the north, turned the war into a MORAL war to End slavery.
Although Lincoln was NOT against slavery, shortly after the Battle of Antietam, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared “ALL slaves in the Rebelling States are declared FREE.” He did not declare slavery illegal in the United States.
