THE AMERICAN CIVIL

WAR
BY
EASHAN
 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
• The war was fought because the southern states left the
Union (on the issue of secession)
• Millions lost their lives during the war
• At the end of the War, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the
Union general, Ulysses Grant on April 1865
WHAT CAUSED THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR?
• American Civil War was the culmination of the
struggle between the advocates and opponents
of slavery
• Conflict between Northern states and
slaveholding Southern states had been tempered
by a series of political compromises
• The election of Abraham Lincoln, a member of
the antislavery Republican Party, as president
in 1860 precipitated the succession of 11
Southern states, leading to civil war
 WHO WON THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR?
• The Union won the American Civil War
• The war effectively ended in April 1865 when
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his
troops to Union General Ulysses S.
Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
• The final surrender of Confederate troops on the western
periphery came in Galveston, Texas
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED DURING THE
CIVIL WAR?
• It is estimated that from 752,000 to 851,000
soldiers died during the American Civil War
• This figure represents approximately 2
percent of the American population in 1860
• The Battle of Gettysburg, one of the
bloodiest engagements during the Civil War,
resulted in about 7,000 deaths and 51,000
total casualties
IMP FIGURES IN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR?

ABRAHAM ROBERT E LEE ULYSSES S

LINCOLN
The 16th president of the Grant’s counterpart GRANT
The most successful and
United States in the Confederacy prominent general of the
Union
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