Civil War Review

​Reason for Fighting:   

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1)  To keep the Union together.

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2)  In the beginning, abolishing _______________

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​Reason for Fighting: 

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1)  Believed they had a

right to leave the Union

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2)  Keep their traditional

way of life, including

slavery

​Originally the war was fought to save the Union not end SLAVERY

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• “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I  could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1862

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On January 1, 1863

Lincoln issues the

Emancipation

Proclamation

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​The Emancipation Proclamation ​freed slaves ONLY in

the Confederacy

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Could slaves really be freed with this??  

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Why?? 

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The Emancipation Proclamation changed the PURPOSE of the war.

NOW, Union troops

are fighting to end

slavery.  AS WELL AS

to save the UNION.       

​New Technology:

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CONE-SHAPED bullets

made rifles twice as accurate.

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Improved cannons hurled

shells several miles.

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​The most common form of surgery was....?

​Sanitary conditions were poor and minor wounds

​became infected. 

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Disease/Infection 

killed more men than

guns or cannons.

Grant's plan for ending

the war:  TOTAL WAR

Destroy the South’s ability

to FIGHT. Destroy food,

equipment, and anything

else they found that might

be USEFUL tothe enemy.

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​Robert E. Lee becomes trapped by Union troops and SURRENDERS on April 9th, 1865 (Appomattox Court House)