The Civil War Advantages and Leadership The Civil

The Civil War Advantages and Leadership

The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865

Two Sides The Union & The Confederates

Union Army Confederate soldiers sometimes refereed to the Union soldiers (nicknames) as: Yankees, Yanks, Blue, Billy Yank, Jayhawkers (originally Kansas men only but Confederates came to use it more widely), Redlegs (for Kansas irregulars only), bummers, Dutch (applied to any German-American troops), Blue Bellies, Licolnites or abolitionists

Confederate Army Union soldiers sometimes refereed to the Confederate soldiers (nicknames) as: Rebels, CSA (Confederate States of America, Butternut, reb or rebs, secesh= short for secessionist, grayback.

Popular Sovereignty The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will. American History. (before the Civil War) a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery. -In other words: the people of the territory decide whether a territory is free or slave

Lincoln’s Election Cause of Secession South Carolina was the first state to secede the Union

Advantages of North vs. Advantages of the South at the start of the Civil War North Advantages • • • A larger population More manufacturing A stronger Navy South Advantages vs. • • Better Military leaders “Home-field” advantage Slaves that could do manual labor Knowledge of the land they were fighting

Leadership of the Civil War Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln

Military Leaders William Tecumseh Sherman-North Ambrose Burnside-North George Mc. Clellan-North Jefferson Davis-South Robert E. Lee-South Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (got his nickname because he held his lines like a stonewall) South