Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 19, Lesson 3: The End of the War (pp. 489-493)
I. Final Battles
B. In his address at Gettysburg, Lincoln called for an end to slavery.
C. Under General Ulysses Grant, the Union armies drove through Georgia and Virginia and finally took Richmond in April 1865.
II. The South Surrenders
B. Grant treated the Confederate army fairly, allowing them to keep their horses and mules.
III. After the War
B. Before he could act on his plans, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
C. The Civil War cost the nation tremendously in money, property, and lives. Nearly as many American soldiers died in the Civil War as in all the other wars the U.S. has fought combined.
D. As a result of the war, the country remained one nation.
E. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, but African Americans were still treated unfairly.
F. Industry grew in the North after the war.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863 proved to be turning points in the war.
A. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
A. Lincoln made plans to bring the southern states back into the Union without punishing them.
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