AMERICAN CIVIL WARCivil War Video Clip

The Civil War was tough on both sides.

NorthNortherners ranging from the abolitionist  William Lloyd Garrison to the moderate Republican leader Lincoln emphasized Jefferson's declaration that all men are created equal. Lincoln mentioned this proposition in his Gettysburg Address.The North also had an advantage over the South because all of the industry and factories that were located in the North.

SouthNinety-five percent of African-Americans lived in the South, comprising one third of the population there as opposed to one percent of the population of the North, chiefly in larger cities like New York and Philadelphia. Consequently, fears of eventual emancipation were much greater in the South than in the North.

States RightsEveryone agreed that states had certain rights—but did those rights carry over when a citizen left that state? The Southern position was that citizens of every state had the right to take their property anywhere in the U.S. and not have it taken away—specifically they could bring their slaves anywhere and they would remain slaves. Northerners rejected this "right" because it would violate the right of a free state to outlaw slavery within its borders. Republicans committed to ending the expansion of slavery were among those opposed to any such right to bring slaves and slavery into the free states and territories.

Abraham Lincoln-16th President of the United States of America-First Republican president-Passes the Emancipation Proclamation-Lead the North in the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

Consisted of two executive orders issued by President Lincoln during the American Civil War

The Emancipation Proclamation was criticized at the time for freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no power. Although most slaves were not freed immediately, the Proclamation did free thousands of slaves the day it went into effect

Jefferson Davis-President of the Confederate States of America-West Point graduate-U. S. Senator for the State of Mississippi

Ulysses S. Grant

• Military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.

• Under the command of Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate Military and ended the Confederate States of America.

Robert E. Lee

• A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for thirty-two years.

• He is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

Battle of Gettysburg

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

The courthouse is where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee  to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.

Lincoln AssasinatedPresident Abraham Lincoln was shot on , April 14, 1865, followed by his death the following morning. Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The American Civil War was drawing to a close, just six days after the large-scale surrender of Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee to Union General U. S. Grant. The assassination was planned and carried out by John Wilkes Booth as part of a larger conspiracy in an effort to rally the remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting.

The United States of America accepts the South’s return to the Union