美国南北内战课件

1、American Civil War,1 different economic systems 2 slave problem 3 political conflicts,Three Significant causes,The dispute between the south and the north,With American territorial expansion,the friction(矛盾） of the north and the south became hairtrigger(一触即发的）.As we all know ,the economic system of

2、the north was capitalist economic system,while ,the south was plantation economy system(种植园经济体制）,which meant an unavoidable war.(essential reason ) At the same time,the capitalist called for the abolition of slavery,while the south objected to abolishing it in that they required more cheap labour. 1

3、860,Abraham Lincoln was elected as American president ,Lincoln represented interest of the northern capitalists,so this election annoyed the south.(the direct cause of war,The debate of the abolition of slavery,After Democratic Party failed in election ,the south began to prepare rebellion and found

4、ed the Confederate States of America(美利坚联盟国）;the Republican Party(共和党）, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campainged aganist the rebellison and founded United States of America(美利坚合众国,So this is the lady who started the Civil War. - Abraham Lincoln,Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 1896,President Abraham Lincol

5、n on Jan, 1, 1863, declared the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all the slaves! President Lincolns 4 brother-in-laws were Confederates. He was the 1st president to wear a beard,In US Civil War period, President Lincoln made bigs contributions to maintenance country unification ,he helped foundi

6、ng and lead the Republican Party .Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy and made it his first priority to reunite the nation. To do that he had to overthrow slavery as well, which he did through the Emacipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. He took personal charge of Reconstructi

7、on, seeking to speedily re-unite the nation. He was opposed by the Radical Republicans who advocated much harsher policies. Lincolns assassination as the war ended made him a martyr and icon of American nationalism,The result of civil war,Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Gra

8、nt at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865，theUnited States of America won in the war,and the country was united,The Significances of the Civil War,The economic significance,The political significance,The economic significance:It wiped out a remnant of the feudal times, which set back the economy

9、 of capitalism developed. Second, modern system of agricultural capitalism was set up.Third, the north struggled against southern plantation economy;Fourth, the Homestead Act announced in1862 made many poor people could get their own land. These actions were very meaningful to the poor people then.

10、Meanwhile, encouraged people fight with the south. What is the most important is boosting the capitalist economy development,The economic significance,The political significance,First, the most obvious is the war safeguard national unity and ethnic solidarity. Second, freed the black slaves encourag

11、ed Americans democracy.Compared with before, they have much more rights and freedom,Significance of the mental and culture,The spirits about honest, brave, adamancy, responsibility and sense of duty and honor have great effect on American people ever since. Meanwhile, as a very complex and important

12、 modern war, it offered subject for the later literature. It amazing that in many literary outputs, the south slave owners and military officers are real positive characters. For example, Gone With the Wind, Gods and Generals,The negative opinion,It brought enormous damages. According to statistics,

13、 the injured and the dead people were about 1095000 in total. About 64000 northern people were killed, the rest were the south. The courses of the death were various, for instance, illness, murder, drowning, poison and so on. Civil War Monument written that this war last 4 years, about 620000 people we