T H E A RT S O F D E AT H

STRATEGIES OF THE CIVIL WAR

FOCUS QUESTION

• What do teams need to do in order to win a game?

OBJECTIVES

After today’s lesson, you will:• Outline the major strengths and weaknesses of

both sides in the Civil War• Describe the strategies of the two sides during

the Civil War

BREAKDOWN OF THE UNION

• Military commanders in the South turned over U.S. forts and arsenals to Southern forces• Allowed growth of the Confederate Army• Left the Union weak in the South

• By April 1861, the Union held three forts in the South

FORT SUMTER

• Bombing of Fort Sumter starts the war• Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers• “Put down the insurrection”• Three month enlistment

• Four states in the Upper South secede

FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN

• “One Big Battle” mentality• Met in Northern Virginia on July 21, 1861• Southerners proved victorious• Victory was not decisive

• Both sides hunkered down for a long war

Prepare a chart comparing the advantages of disadvantages held by the North and the South(see pp. 360-362 in your texts)

• Identify three advantages held by the North• Identify three advantages held by the South• Identify three disadvantages held by the North• Identify three disadvantages held by the South

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

NORTH

SOUTH

STRATEGIES OF THE WAR

Union Plan• Anaconda Plan• Designed by Winfield Scott

1. Blockade the South2. Seize control of the Mississippi3. Capture Richmond

STRATEGIES OF THE WAR

Southern Plan• “Active Defense”

1. Defend Southern territory2. Attack when holding the advantage3. Encourage foreign support

• Prolong the War

RESULTS

• Northern strategy and economy defeated the South• Union able to set the pace of the war• Union used its superior economy to defeat the

South• War effectively ends on April 9, 1865 with the

surrender at Appomattox Court House

SUMMARY

• Explain in two-three sentences how this lesson could be improved