The US Civil WarA Nation Divides

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Civil War BeginsFort Sumter

Causes of Civil WarEconomic, Social, and Political

Strategies for VictoryUNION STRATEGIES

CONFEDERATE STRATEGIES

Battle of Bull RunA Battlefield Bridge

Where the battle took place

Monitor vs. Merrimack (Virginia)

Battle of Antietem

Above: General Lee and his Confederate troops are

represented by the Red, McClellan and his Union

troops, blue

Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863

African American Contribution54th Massachusetts Regimen under General Robert Shaw

The Fall of Vicksburg

Above: Notice the Mississippi River, Confederates in the Red, Union in the Blue

Union Victory at Gettysburg

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Grant’s Plan of AttritionTotal War

Battles of the WildernessSHENANDOAH VALLEY MARCH TO THE SEA

Left: General Phillip Sheridan

Right: General William

Sherman

Lincoln Re-ElectedSecond Inaugural Address

Appomattox Court House

Above: Lee surrenders to Grant

Cost of WarLives, Money, Slavery Abolished