The Civil War

By: Clay, Dakota, Seirra, & Thomas

General Ulysses S. GrantUnion (North)

General Robert E. LeeConfederate (South)

Abe Lincoln & Ulysses Grant

• Lincoln thought success was illegal, and was willing to use force to defend the Unions law.

• It only took 4 slave states to start the war.

• His Mom died when he was 10 years old.

• He was the leader of the Union army.

• He was the type of person who Lincoln wanted to lead his army.

• He was a good/stubborn fighter.

Northerners

Fred Douglas & Harriet Tubman• To shape USA, he

went through determination, brilliance, & eloquence.

• He had TONS of jobs, like author & publisher.

• He was committed to freedom.

• She was born 1820, in Dorchester Country, Maryland.

• She married John Tubman in 1844.

• In her early teens, she quit working indoors, & became a field-hand.

SouthernersRobert E. Lee & Jeff Davis

• He was the south's general during the war.

• He graduated from west point military academy & became a colonel.

• He was from Virginia.

• He was the Confederate president.

• He was Commander-in-Chief of the Confederates.

• He was a Colonel of the USA during the Mexican-American War.

Tom Stonewall & Joe E. Johnston

• He was born in Virginia, Jan. 21st, 1824.

• He started West Point in July, 1842.

• He got his Nickname in a Civil War battle.

• He was the Virginia native & West Pointer.

• He was National Army Quarterman for almost a year.

• He had 8 years of Artillery.

Union and Confederate States• Minnesota, Iowa,

Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Philadelphia, New York, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California, New Hampshire, & Massachusetts.

• Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Florida

Map

Flags

Stars & Bars

2nd Official Confederate Flag

3rd official Confederate Flag

Flags (Continued)

Navy JackBonnie Blue

Confederate Battle Flag

The Gettysburg Address • His father brought a new nation they

conceived. They should not die in vain god will give them new birth and freedom. They said they can’t heal the ground. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing. They brave men who lived in the dead surrogated. They also horned the dead.

Emancipation Proclamation

• During the civil war, African Americans tried to join the union army of the north they were told to keep out of it was a white mans war." At first president Lincoln said that the war was over.

Eli Whitney

• Was the inventor of the cotton gin and pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in west Massachusetts on December 8,1765 and died on January 8’ 1825.