Foreign Intervention

So What's the Big Deal?

Northern and Southern Advantages

Major Battles

Northern and Southern Disadvantages

The Issue of Slavery

The South hoped that cotton would be enough to gain British diplomacy...they were wrong

First and Second Battles of Bull Run....Successes for the South early on

Fort Sumner...the first shot fired in the war....started by Cinfederate army

Antietam.....Lee is pushed back by McCllelan...Lincoln is made that Lee's army wasnt eliminated outright

Vicksburg and Gettysburg.....major Union victories....Confederate army suffers major losses...later surrenders at Appomattox Court House

North contains majority of industry and manufacturing

South grows the staple crop of the nation...COTTON!

South has the most experienced generals

North has the population logistics on their side

North had 22 million to the south's 5.5 million people

McCllellan was ready for Lee becuase Lee had dropped a map of his battle plans

The South lacked a Navy and therefore control of the sea

The Noth was not fighting a battle to protect but rather to attack

The South had a high morale becuause they were protecting a way of life

The South lacked the capability to print money and an adequate railroad system

Britiain and France were the two main nations whose intervention would have been game changing

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln later in the war

It actually freed zero slaves at the time

Lincoln was cautious of proposing the proclamation becuase he didnt want to scare off Northern soldiers

13th Amendment.....Actually abolished slavery

4 million slaves were now free

Confiscation Acts allowed slaves to freely pass North and not have to be returned

Blacks who fought in the war were in segregated units

Britain stayed neutral becuase of two things

1.) They supported abolishionism

2.) The South's loss at Antietam

Britain almost sold powerful ramming ships called Laird Rams to the south but decided against it at the last minute

Had either side recieved foreign aid, the war would have undoubtably swung their way

Morill Tariff Act- raised tariff rates to increase revenue

Homestead Act- promoted great Plains settlement

Morill Land Grant Act- encouraged use of federal land grants to maintain colleges

Pacific Railway Act- Transcontinental railroad

Women now entered the workplace to replace men killed in battle

War cost over 3 billion dollars

North financed its operations using 2.6 dollars worth of federal bonds