Civil War

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Themes:

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1. Increasingly difficult to compromise the slavery issue
2. Multiple causes – economics, philosophy of government, fanaticism
3. Devastating war for five years 1861-1865
4. North fought to preserve union – added war aim of emancipation
5. Lincoln the dominant figure – assassinated

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Leading up to war

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1. How to deal with slavery in the new lands from Mexico – compromise of 1850
2. Douglas reopens Kansas and Nebraska to popular sovereignty
3. “Bleeding Kansas”
4. Increased abolitionist activity – underground railroad, won’t cooperate with Fugitive Slave law
5. Dred Scott decision
6. John Brown’s Raid
7. Different economic interests – no tariff ( South) v. protective tax
8. Lincoln’s election in 1868 as a Republican scares South – they secede

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The War

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1. Devastation – 600,000 died
2. Lincoln has poor generals, but blockade. Finally won with Grant and Sherman.
3. South has Lee and Holds out for a long time – hopes for English aid but doesn’t come
4. Lincoln widens war aim with Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment
5. Ends at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
6. Lincoln assassinated – 1865