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Chapter 13 Lesson 1 Hawon - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 13 Lesson 1 Hawon
The sides compared
The Union (North)
More factories, money, ships, steel
Had many kinds of crops
22,000 miles of railroad
Had a lot of labor-saving devices
had 20 million people
The Confegeracy (South)
9000 miles of railroad
had few tobacco, cotton, rice
Had to export to obtaon all the things it lacked
9 million people (3.6 million were slaves)
Depended on labor of its slaves
Southern states that did not seceded
Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
Slaves
South
Slaves can help the North
Didn't use slaves in armed force
Slaves can take up arms and attack the whites in the south
North
Use slaves in the armed force
South thought France and Great Britain will keep trading for cotton
But Noth had blockade
The Short War
North thought it will be a short war ("Six month's war)
North had more advantages
Mass forces, invade the enemy's land, win the battle or take over the capital
North had to attack the South to keep them in the Union
The Rifle
New: Rifle
Inside of its barrel was rifled
cut with spiral grooves
When the bullet pushed out it was set spinning
Longer range
More accurate aim
New: Caplock
can also be used in wet weather
Used new chemical enclosed in cap
Make explosion that sent the bullet
North had old fashioned weapons
Smoothbore flintlock musket
Had short range
slow to reload
Inaccurate
Soldiers learn to dig in
South used the Indian tactics
North had to make instant forts
dig earth
Start of the trench warfare
The importance of Railroad
railroad was quick and easy to cut
enemy would have to stop fighting
carry supplies for ammunition, food, bandages
Civil war became a war aimed at the enemy's communication line
Like in the Battle of Petersburg
The war of exhaustion
Northern ships blockaded the southern ships
"Conda"
kept merchant ships from reaching the southern port
North also had to capture the waterway and the highway
A new tactic:
Destroying the resources until the resist was gone
Everybody's war
"People's War"
Everyone was influenced and included in the war
Women at war
few figures:
Louisa May Alcott
Worked with Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Founded and became president of the American Red Cross
Cared for the sick during the war
1st female clerks in Washington
searched for missing Union soldiers
Dorothea Dix
Appointed as the 1st Superintendant of Women Nurses
Women helped set up the US Sanitary Comission
Distributing supplies
More female clerks
both in the North and the South
Women had to take over business, farms, and plantations
The border states
Lincoln thought the contitution can be bend to save the union and washington
Supressed newspapers
arrested civilians
suspending the writ of hebeas corpus
Imposed martial laws in Maryland
Lincoln ignored Chief Justice Taney
Washington was surrounded by 3 sides of Maryland (Slave state)
Tried to protect wasington by sending troops but failed
Through this action:
Union sentiment within the states grew
Maryland was filling its quota of enlishment in the US army
Lincoln saved washington
Saved Missouri and Kentucky
The Question of Emancipation
He refused to emancipate the slaves
To keep in the union the border of slave states
Lincoln always wanted the keep and save the union
Lincoln worked to get everyone's support