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Section 1: A new kind of war - Coggle Diagram
Section 1: A new kind of war
The sides compared
the Union
20 million people
more factory, more railroad, more money
various crop
a lot of labor-saving
the Confederacy
9 million people (3.6 million slave)
depended on its slave
slaves might fight for the Union
It is dangerous to give weapons to slaves
tobacco and cotton
believed that the Union was so divided
think Great Britain and France would help to get the cotton
The "short war"
the Union
have to force the south to stay
have to invade south
the Confederacy
military advantages
has to declare independence
west pont textbook
decisive battle
capture enemy's capital
soldiers learn to dig in
indian tactics
skirmish
spread out into small parties
to make dispersed targets
making instant fort
get advantages of defenders
Trench
make earth itself a fort
start of trench warfare
spade became important
The rifle
flintlock musket
short range
slow to reload
replaced by rifle
rifle
longer range
accurate aim
standard weapon
caplock
chemical that make explosion
The war of exhaustion
peopel also have to cut off supplies from water
the Northern blockade
ship offshore made it difficult for the south to export
worked slowly but worked surely
'Conda'
new kind of war
European expert thinks it is not a war at all
Importance of railroad
carrying supplies
make fortification advanced
life line
Everybody's war
battles were covered by newspaper
news paper would give away info.
camera
Women at war
women played new important role
Dorothea Dix
superident of women nurses
Louisa May Alcott
worked in the hospital
cured soldiers
Clara Barton
president of American Red Cross
caring for the wounded
Identified thousands of graves at CSA
The border state
Abraham Lincoln
If Maryland succeed, Washington would be lost
imposed martial law, suepressed newspaper
suspending habeas corpus
Habeas Corpus
keep people from being held in jail without a fair trial
Taney's opinion
president had no right to suspend habeas corpus
Lincoln's opinion
have to keep Union
result
Maryland was held in the Union
Washington was saved
oppoesed with Taney
The question of emancipation
Lincoln's idea
he refused to emanciptaion slave in Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri
Save the Union