WAGING TOTAL WAR Chapter 15 Part 5 THE

WAGING TOTAL WAR Chapter 15 Part 5

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • After Antietam, Lincoln needed to justify the _________. • Issued Emancipation Proclamation to take effect ___________. • Only freed slaves in ______—did not free all the slaves. • If any Confederate state quit fighting before January 1, they could ______— _______ quit.

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Gave the Union an ______—why were they fighting? • Originally, the answer was to “_______”. • Now, the answer was “________”. • Encouraged slaves to _______ from the South. • Ended any remaining hope of _______ helping the South—it would look like they would be supporting slavery; they had already outlawed it.

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION • Blacks now given _________—to help free the slaves. • Capture meant _____ • Treatment still ______ to whites in North, however.

DESTRUCTION THE SOUTH THE OF • Grant willing to do whatever it would take to win the war. • This meant fighting waging a war of _____—wearing down the enemy and ______ if necessary. • Two parts of the _______ had been accomplished • Time to __________…

DESTRUCTION THE SOUTH THE OF • North weary of war. • Lee sent men north to cause ________ to take advantage of North’s weariness. • These raids led Grant to send ________ into the Shenandoah Valley. • Importance of Shenandoah Valley = ________________. • _____ destroyed the valley.

BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA • The South’s retaliation • Grant leading Union forces in Chattanooga, TN. • Confederates just south in _________, TN. • Chickamauga = Cherokee word meaning “______” • Gen. Bragg (Confederate general) attacks Union army • Breaks through Union lines • Union army regroups, _________, and takes control of Tennessee

SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA • (Confederate) General Hood then started a battle against Sherman in Atlanta (GA). • Hood ____; quickly _____ Atlanta • Sherman realizes maintaining control of Atlanta and fighting battles elsewhere impossible. • Gets permission to _________.

SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA • Atlanta _______. • Divided army into four columns spread out over 60 miles and sent them on four different roads to Savannah (GA) which sits on the Atlantic Ocean • Thus the name “_________” • Sherman ordered commanders to “forage liberally on the country during the march”—in other words, whatever they didn’t need, ________. • Everything destroyed—______ fell easily too.

THE ELECTION OF 1864 • North tired of war; wanted _______. • ________, angry over the war, ran against Lincoln; ran favoring peace and letting Confederacy go. • Lincoln smart; picked _______, a TN Democrat as his vice-president – _____ would appeal to the Southern states and could help them rejoin the Union. • Union beginning to ______; helped Lincoln’s cause. • ______ wins election.