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1.Lincoln ran against Democrat General McClellan. Lincoln won 212 electoral votes to 21, but the popular vote was much closer. (Lincoln had fired McClellan from his position in the war.)
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Election of 1864
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2.After Lincoln was elected, but before he was inaugurated, seven Southern states seceded. Buchanan, the lame duck president, decided to leave the problem for Lincoln to take care of.
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Buchanan and the Secession Crisis
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3.The North was much richer than the South, and financed the war through loans, treasury notes, taxes and duties on imported goods. The South had financial problems because they printed their Confederate notes without backing them with gold or silver.
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Financing of the war effort by North and South
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3.A desperate measure to prevent the Civil War, introduced by John Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, in December 1860. The bill offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves. Republicans, on the advice of Lincoln, defeated it.
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Crittenden Compromise proposal
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4.In his acceptance speech for his nomination to the Senate in June, 1858, Lincoln paraphrased from the Bible: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." He continued, "I do not believe this government can continue half slave and half free, I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do believe it will cease to be divided."
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House Divided Speech
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6.Nominated by pro-slavers who had seceded from the Democratic convention, he was strongly for slavery and states' rights.
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John Breckinridge
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8.Democrat - James Buchanan (won by a narrow margin). Republican - John Fremont. Know- Nothing Party and Whig - Millard Fillmore. First election for the Republican Party. Know- Nothings opposed immigration and Catholic influence. They answered questions from outsiders about the party by saying "I know nothing".
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Election of 1856
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9.1860 platform: free soil principles, a protective tariff. Supporters: anti-slavers, business, agriculture. Leaders: William M. Seward, Carl Shulz.
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Republican Party
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First engagement ever between two iron-clad naval vessels. The two ships battled in a portion of the Cheasepeake Bay known as Hampton Roads for five hours on March 9, 1862, ending in a draw.
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Monitor and the Merrimac
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Battle sites of the Civil War.
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Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, Appomattox Battle sites of the Civil War. Gettysburg
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21.After Lincoln was elected, but before he was inaugurated, seven Southern states seceded. Buchanan, the lame duck president, decided to leave the problem for Lincoln to take care of.
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Buchanan and the Secession Crisis
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22.The pro-slavery constitution suggested for Kansas' admission to the union. It was rejected.
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Lecompton Constitution
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24.Lincoln suspended this writ, which states that a person cannot be arrested without probable cause and must be informed of the charges against him and be given an opportunity to challenge them. Throughout the war, thousands were arrested for disloyal acts. Although the U.S. Supreme Court eventually held the suspension edict to be unconstitutional, by the time the Court acted the Civil War was nearly over.
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Suspension of habeas corpus
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Union generals in the Civil War.
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Grant, McClellan, Sherman and Meade
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47.Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War, he wanted to keep Britain from entering the war on the side of the South.
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Charles Francis Adams
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48.As chief justice, he wrote the important decision in the Dred Scott case, upholding police power of states and asserting the principle of social responsibility of private property. He was Southern and upheld the fugitive slave laws.
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Chief Justice Roger B. Tanney (pronounced "Tawny")
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