5.2 Sectionalism, 1850

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5.2: Sectionalism from 1850-1860 & The Civil War (1861-1865)

along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successful on the GHSGT” (pg. 92-96)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry

increased The incident at Harpers Ferry’s greatly ___________ tensions between the North and South (a)

Sectionalism 1857-1860

Sectionalism 1857-1860

By 1860, the Republicans elected Lincoln without even campaigning in the South!

Secession & the Effects of Fort Sumter Civil War was not technically between slave states & free states (the “border states” of MO, KY, DE, MD did not secede)

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

In April 1861, a skirmish at Fort Sumter, SC led to the 1st shots fired of the Civil War

Advantages of the Union & Confederacy

Antietam, 1862: Convinced England & France not to join war with CSA & convinced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg, 1863: The “turning point” of the Civil War

Vicksburg, 1863: Cut off Southern access to Mississippi River & led to Ulysses Grant’s promotion

The Civil War

Emancipation in 1863 The border states could keep their slaves (until 13th amendment passed in 1865)

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was a famous Union general during the Civil War.

Confederate lines around Atlanta were some of the most fortified of the War. General Johnston hoped to inflict unacceptable losses upon Sherman if he should try to take the city.

Sherman’s first step was to capture the Confederate rail hub of Atlanta. He assaulted the Confederate positions at Kenesaw Mountain, the key to the rest of the area.

Peachtree Street in Atlanta after the Federal bombardment of the city. Marietta Street runs to the left and Decatur Street to the right.

Soldiers destroy a railroad during General Sherman's march to the sea.

By the end of the Civil War, most of the South's locomotives had been destroyed.

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