American History I Unit 5 Crisis and War Day 7 The Civil War (cont.)
Chancellorsville (May 1863) Lincoln hired another General = Joseph Hooker Virginia Confederate victory Robert E. Lee Confederacy Union army was nearly lost Stonewall Jackson shot by his own men o His left arm was amputated and later died from complications from pneumonia
Lee Makes a Move General Hooker was fired by Lincoln after his loss at Chancellorsville Lee decided to press forward with an invasion into PA Ulysses S. Grant began to move to the Mississippi hoping to pull Lee away from the North
***Gettysburg (July 1863) Pennsylvania Northern victory General Meade - Union General Lee Confederacy **Turning point of the war: o o North starts to dominate the war No more attempts to invade the north by the south Over the three day battle: o o 23,000 Union soldier casualties 28,000 Conf. soldiers casualties
Gettysburg (cont.) Lee s worst defeat General Meade didn t pursue Lee o Guess what happened to him? o Meade was removed by Lincoln Lincoln needed a general who would fight and win!
Vicksburg (July 1863) Mississippi North wins Ulysses S. Grant Union General Confederacy is divided Union has control of the Miss. River o 2 nd goals of Anaconda accomplished o What s left?
Gettysburg Address (November 1863) Lincoln dedicates the Gettysburg battlefield as a national cemetery delivers his famous speech Four score and seven years ago (Declaration of Independence) A new birth of freedom What doe he urge the American people to do? Video - The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
We will read the passage and listen to an audio clip As we watch, we will work to answer the discussion questions on the back of the reading
Election of 1864 Republicans joined with the War Democrats to form the Union Party (Lincoln) o His VP was Andrew Johnson Democrats ran George McClellan The war wasn t going well at the time and Lincoln could lose
Election of 1864 (cont.) Thanks to victories by the army and navy, Lincoln would win Gave loyal soldiers furloughs to come home to vote in states without absentee ballots The Confederacy hoped for a Lincoln defeat that would end the war
Lincoln s Post War Plan for the South: The 10% Plan Plan for the south after the war to readmit the southern states The Radical Republicans said it was too easy
Lincoln s Second Inaugural Address With malice toward none; with charity for all The Union would treat the south benevolently
What was the purpose of Lincoln s Gettysburg address? How does he continue to try and reunite the country? What were the parts of Lincoln s 10% plan for readmission of the Confederacy? Who objected?
Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Vicksburg