Chapter 17 Section 4:
Civil War

STRENGTHS/weaknesses of the North (Union)

• weaknesses: Lincoln was not able to recruit Ulysses S. Grant and was on the offensive in unfamiliar taritory
• Strengths: the union was strong in its numbers of troops and had lots of factories and crops for the soldiers

Strengths/weaknesses of the south

• weaknesses:the south had little factories and crops for soldiers. also had a small a small mass of soldiers for a total compare to the north
• strengths:they had a defensive advantage against the invading union. also they had a great leader,Ulysses S. Grant

MARTIAL law

• ruled by the army instead of the elected government

habeas corpus

• the right to not got to jail without trial

inflation

• it is the rise in a price of a product and a decrease in the value of money

battle of shiloh

• The battle of Shiloh was the first battle fought after the dispersal of the union army east and west
• the Union won but had more losses than the confederacy
• April 6–7, 1862

battle of chancelville

• This battle was won by the confederacy because of the rising hope that the Union would lose because of there many casulties
• April 30, 1863 – May 6, 1863

battle of fredricksburg

• This battle was a offensive for the Confederacy who had wanted to press the union and send them on the deffencive
• December 11-15, 1862

SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES of the civil war

• new canons, bullets, and ships caused more damage
• tactical defenses/offences won battles and utimatly the war

effects of the emancipation PROCLAMATION

• The Union was now fight not just for the unity of the union but to free slavery in the south not the borderstates
• As Union troops came closer to a plantation slaves would flee to the union and to freedom

victories of the union

• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Getyesburg

victories of the south

• the battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Chancellorville

how the union ACHIEVED its war goals

• The Union was able to achieve its war goals through strategic planning
• new inovations
• Also Lincolns well spoken speeches and plans

early civil war battles

• Fort Sumpter
• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Antietum

how the south DEALT with economic problems

• As the price of cotton went up the value of slaves went up
• There was inflation to help the output and the input of the econamy

description of the early days of civil war

• The early days of the Civil War was not as bad as it got in the middle of it because of the new technologies and the "up to date" medicine and antiseptics
• not as much men were dead

contribution of slavery during the war

• They helped serve the confederate soldiers
• they helped with the collecting of the dead
• They help in hospitals on both sides

contribution of african americans

• Freed slaves wanted to be apart of the Union army to help there fellow captive slaves