War and Reconstruction

Chapter 2 Lesson 1

Advantages and Disadvantages

• Northern supporters believed they were fighting to preserve the Union

• Southern supporters believed they were fighting to preserve their way of life.

(No mention of slavery yet!)

Advantages

• Southerners believed that their more rural way of life would better prepare soldiers for war.

• Many Southerners hunted and were familiar with weapons.

• The South also had a history of producing military leaders.

Advantages

• The Northern states produced more than 90 percent of the country’s weapons, cloth, shoes, and iron.

• The North also produced more than half of the country’s corn and 80 percent of wheat.

• The Union also had far more railroads, canals and roads to move supplies and troops.

• The Union also spent more than double the money on the war than the South!

Advantages

Advantages

Strategies

• Winfield Scott planned a strategy with three parts to help the North win the war.

• The first part was a blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Confederacy. (A blockade is the shutting off of an area by troops or ships).

• The second part was to capture the Mississippi River and split the Southern states in two.

• The third part was to attack the South from both east and west. (Squeeze the South like an anaconda!)

Strategies

Strategies

Strategies

• The Confederate government had its own plan for victory.

• First, it believed that the South only had to defend its territory until the North got tired and gave up. (Defensive Battle)

• Second the South believed that Britain would assist it in the war because British clothing mills depended on Southern cotton.

Strategies

Early Battles

• Early battles were fought in the north, and many of these were won by the South.

• Antietam was an important victory for the Union. After defeating the South, Great Britain ended its support for the Southern States.

Technology and War

• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-war-technology/videos#civil-war-rifle-demonstration

• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-war-technology/videos#civil-war-cannons-aim-load-and-fire

Technology and War

• The Civil War was the first Modern War.• Soldiers used rifles that could shoot farther and

more accurately than guns used in previous wars.• Railroads moved troops and supplies more quickly.• Confederates even built several submarines!• Ironclad, iron covered ships, that cannon balls

bounced off of• These new technologies resulted in huge numbers

of deaths and casualities!

Technology and War

Technology and War