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109 Cards in this Set
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opinion in north is divided |
some think we should let them go |
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lincoln says... |
we can work this out, no violence wanted |
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lincoln picked good cabinet members who think... |
they're better than him |
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Fort Sumter |
charleston, sc; on an island; commander anderson wanted it gone, like al qaeda based in nyc |
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fort sumter troops allegiance was towards... |
north |
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the reason they didn't give up sumter was... |
lincoln didn't wanna give up anymore gov land |
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on sumter, lincoln said.. |
protect x defend, no force, sen food relief x ammo |
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when the sc militia began to fire on sumter... |
34 hrs, no men injured, horses maybe injured, we started to fight back |
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as a result of sumter, |
four more states seceded (va, nc, tn, ak) |
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the capital of the south moved from... |
Montgomery to Richmond |
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lincoln gave command of the Northern armies to... |
R E Lee |
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RE Lee was good until... |
VA seceded, at which point so did he. |
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four slave states remain... |
border states/MO, KY, Maryland, DE |
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we need the remaining slave states... |
so lincoln has a severe limit on what he can and can't say x do |
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Anaconda Plan... |
four step plan to defeat richmond |
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steps to anaconda plan... |
1. blockade the south 4. capture Richmond |
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highest number of volunteers were from... |
Indiana (held at indy before sent to DC) |
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we had... |
30k boys in blue in DC |
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the civil war was supposed to take... |
six weeks, took months instead |
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the north got tired of the war and just... |
wanted to throw in the towel |
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from DC our boys set out for... |
richmond |
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Battle of Bull Run |
Stonewall Jackson was southern general |
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during BoBR, the south |
chased us right back to dc |
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Northern army during BoBR was... |
Army of the Potomac, led by George McClellan |
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Southern army during BoBR was... |
Army of Northern VA, led by RE Lee |
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McClellan was fired bc... |
never prepped army bc knew lee would win |
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mcclellan took... |
10k men to richmond where they were attacked by RE Lee and 70k men
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the south was convinced... |
it'd be easy to win the war (they were obvs wrong) |
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____ replaced McClellan and did a ____ job at ____ |
Pope, horrible job, Battle of Saratoga |
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At Saratoga, Lee... and then... |
invaded the north, started the Battle of Antietam |
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After the Battle of Antietam, |
McClellan was rehired (he beat Lee w his own plan) |
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George McClellan |
v political, ran for pres in 1864 |
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McClellan found cigars wrapped in.. |
Lee's battle plan |
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Battle of Antietam was... |
bloodiest, +24 straight hours, highest death toll, an excuse for the Emancipation Proclamation |
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In the Battle of Antietam, Lee... |
escaped, got McClellan fired again even tho he held the field |
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there was a strained relationship between... |
irish and free blacks |
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Ulysses S Grant |
changed name from Hirem U Grant (HUG) |
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Grant had a... |
shitty career as officer in great plains, easily bored, resigned from army, became shopkeeper |
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TN was crucial to... |
parts 2 x 3 of the Anaconda Plan |
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Grant worked his way... |
down the mississippi river |
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meanwhile, Farragut (N. Navy leader) worked his way... |
up the mississippi river |
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Farragut and Grant met at... |
Vicksburg, july 4th, "dawn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" |
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grant moved his men to... |
eastern TN, made war on civilians |
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General Sherman turned his troops north in... |
Savannah (raped, pillaged, plundered) |
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McClellan got fired again and was this time replaced by... |
Ambrose Burnside |
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Burnside invented... |
sideburns |
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At Fredericksburg we lost... |
10,000 men |
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Burnside was fired and replaced by |
Joe Hooker (attracted "campfollowers" for his men) |
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Hooker got out-generalled by ___ and ____ |
Lee, was fired |
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George Meade |
replaced Hooker, sent Lee running |
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Lee wanted a big victory so that... ; met up with Meade at... |
England would enter the war; at Gettysburg (either July 2nd or 6th or 1863) |
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Gettysburg ft... |
modern weapons, hella dudes, hella deads, Matt Brady (1st photographer) |
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Lee went running bc... |
it wasn't a tough fight but he wasn't well equipped |
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Meade was fired because... |
Lee got away again |
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Peace Party started in the North with... |
no general bc Lincoln the fuccboi fired Meade |
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Grant replaced... |
Meade, willing to kill N soldiers not willing to fight (meatgrinder warfare) |
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Cold Harbor |
Richmond, Grant lost 7k in 3 hrs, union soldiers prepped for death, 10s of k's went and were never heard from again |
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Appomattox |
Lee and Grant met in parlor of dude who moved from BoBR |
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Civil war lasted... |
April 61 to April 63 |
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non-military things: |
diplomacy, laird ships, czarist russia, etc. |
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There was a constant worry about how to... |
keep england out of war |
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Napoleon III wanted... |
the south to win (anti-democrat, anti-tariff, anti-america), won't do anything unless british do first, invades MX, makesMaxas the Emperor of Mex |
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England was... |
against the Monroe Doctrine, gov x upper classes like south, lower classes more democratic
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Trent Affair |
almost caused US/UK War, slidell involved, |
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Laird Ships/Shipyard |
bought scots' ships, pissed off south |
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czarist russia favored north bc
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they disliked us but the h a t e d britain. spite.
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pressure to volunteer bc otherwise
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youre drafted (unless pay 300)
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the south can't ... and has a problem with ...
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arm the slaves, problem w desertion
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pensions cost
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more than the war
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the north sold,printed
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2.6 mil in bonds, printed .5 mil not backed on anythimg
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the north sold,printed
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2.6 mil in bonds, printed .5 mil not backed on anythimg
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Milligan
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indiana guy, arrested for treason (spoke out), tried by IN army, went to supreme ct and got released
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1864 election
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lincoln vs mcclellan
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64 Lincoln
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55% winning, thinks he'll win, dissolves repub party, creates union party, picks up Johnson as VP from TN
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lincoln's death
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april 12th in theater
My American Cousin conspiracy John Wilkes Boothe |
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john wilkes boothe
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group of me trying to wipe out north gov, actor, only one who succeeded in killing target
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lincoln was replaced by... who was...
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johnson, shitty president
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johnson was selected bc
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hates blacks, rich white southerners, poor white southern boy, republican, northern, tailor, drunk at innauguration
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reconstruction
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south never rebuilt, treated like 3rd world country for years
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lincoln plan/10% plan
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"put rosewater on the south but itll still stink"
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wade davis bill
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pocket veto (10 days before congress breaks)
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black codes
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restore social order as close as possible to before the war
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many ex slaves were
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arrested for vagrancy and sold as labor
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north didnt see enough
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contrition from southerners
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freedman's bureau
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taught 200k ex slaves how to read, helped union groups in south
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johnson said
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excercise your franchise
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johnson plan
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13th amendment, abolishes slavery eeverywhere in US
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johnson plan cont.
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repudiate debts, leaders from before becoome leaders after war
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wade davis
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normal x radical republicans make policy led by speaker of house
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radical republican plan
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johnson plan + 14th amendment + 15th amendment
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johnson plan
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get rid of slavery
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14th amendment
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extend civil rights to all men
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15th amendment
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right to vote can't be denied on r a c e
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carpet baggers
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northerners who went south to make profit
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scalawags
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southerners who supported north
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rad re0ublicans and johnson
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tried to get rid of each other
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Tenure of Office Act
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johnson tried to fire sec of war stanton, was impeached, 7 republicans voted to keep him, he was kept
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1868 election
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Grant was v corrupt, reelected in 72
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grant wasnt corrupt but
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his friends x relatives were
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1876 election
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US was embarrassed by corruptness, nominated Rutherford B Hayes and Lemonade Lucy
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hayes didn't allow any
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drinking in the white house
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1876 democrats nominated
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tilden (honest, prosecutes liars, loses)
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rad republican congress
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looked at 4 states (one vote in oregon had residency problem) (entire return from 3 states changed)
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pop vs electoral 1876
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popular = tilden, electoral = hayes
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compromise of 1877
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15 men, 8/7 vote for hayes, "Old 8-7"
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hayes promised to
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end reconstruction, take a southerner into cabinet, withdraw northern army from south
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grandfather clause
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loophole
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south stuff
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ex slaces will lose it all,white supremacy will rise again, south returns as democrats (Solid South till 65)
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in compromise of 1877 who gets what?
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repub = white house, dem = congress
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