American Civil War Photography

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American Civil War

- Also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War. Fought from 1861 to 1865. Between the
United States (the "Union" or the "North")
Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South") several Southern (del sur) slave states that had declared their secession and formed this.

SECESSIONSeparation for part of a territory or a group of people to the whole of a nation.
Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values ​​of the North and South. Increased between 1800 and 1860:
  -North, less slavery, industrialized and urbanized and prosperous farms
  -South concentrated on plantation agriculture based on slave labor, together withsubsistence farming for the poor whites.
Moreover, as the demand for cotton grew the price of slaves increased
REASON
Republicans wanted to end slavery.
The Confederacy obligation to maintain slavery for their self protection, economic and social. With tabac and cotton soil, the South believed that slavery needed to expand.
Many supporters of the union fought to keep the unity of the nation.Not against slavery.
INTRODUCTION
in the presidential election of 1860, Republicans led (liderados) by Abraham Lincoln opposed expanding slavery into the territories.
Abraham Lincoln became President of the Union of the United States of America in March 1861. Founding member of the Republican Party in the state of Illinois in 1862 suppressed slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.-Lincoln won but before his inauguration on March, 1861, seven cotton-based slave states formed the Confederacy.
Seven in 4 of Februar 1861 were: Carolina Sur (showed more opposition), Misisipi, Florida, Georgia, Lusiana, Texas y Alabama. With Jefferson Davis as president.

Republicans rejected the legality of secession.
-A Peace Conference failed to find a compromise.
-Both sides prepared for war.-The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on "King Cotton" for its industry that they would intervene; none did and none recognized the new Confederate States of America.

INITIATION FIRST ATTACK
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired to Fort Sumter, a important fort (fuerte) control by Union troops in South Carolina.
After this Lincolncalled for the creation of an army to retake it. Lincoln called 75,000 three-month volunteers.
meanwhile, four border slave states joined the Confederacy, bringing their total to eleven.
Its were: Virginia, Arkansas, Carolina norte, temesse.
The Union soon controlled the border states and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The Fall 1862 Confederate campaign intoMaryland ended at the Battle of Antietam, dissuading British intervention.
In summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy.
In 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Confederate incursion north ended at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Union calculated material and human resources to attack the Confederacy from all directions, and could have the luxury of fight battles of attrition(batallas dedesgaste= through the ground campaign (campañas terrestes) to Richmond. The Confederate army defending not conducive to Lee's surrender (rendicion) to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
CONCLUSION
he American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons (arms).
The mobilization of civilian factories, minesshipyards (astilleros), banks, transport and food provided (suministrada) all presaged the World War I. The deadliest (mortifera) war in American history resulting the deaths of an estimated 750,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilians.
10 % deaths of Union solfiers males 20–45 years old,
30 %of all Confederacion white males aged 18–40.
RESULT
Union Victory
Territorial integrity...