1. THE CIVIL WAR
Topic Discussion AFAS 200
By: Alyssa Goya

2. THE BEGINNING
 By Lincoln’s
inauguration, seven states
had already seceded
 Following the attack on Fort
Sumter, four more states
joined the Confederacy
 This led to concern over what
the government policy was
regarding slavery and the
union

3. POLITICAL TENSIONS
 Abolitionists and Pro-Slavery
Republicans all felt that
Abraham Lincoln was not
taking extreme enough policy
 What was the goal of the
war?

4. WHICH BLACKS WERE FREE?
 First and Second Confiscation Acts: August 1861 and July 1862
 Countering of widespread emancipation
 Voluntary emigration
 September 1862: Preliminary Proclamation
 January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation

5. THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
 Senate passed April 1864
 House of Representatives
took until January 1865 to
pass

6. BLACKS IN THE ARMY
Union forces
 Denied at start
 Employment of fugitive
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slaves: 1861
Understanding of Southern
territory
Under white command
Often more labor intensive
jobs
Few black officers on
commission
Confederate forces
 Often treated captured Union
black soldiers as escaped
slaves and not POWs
 Impressment
 Tennessee militia
 “a poor man’s fight and a rich
man’s war”

7. FREEDOM AND VICTORY
 1865 surrender of
Confederacy
 Different war won than
started
 Ratification of 13th
amendment not complete
 “Free” South