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29 Cards in this Set
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Secession - The original 7
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SC, TX, GA, AL, FL, MS, LA
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The First Capital - CSA
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Montgomery , Alabama
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Last attempts at compromise
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Crittendon proposals, VA Peace Convention
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Opening shots - April 12, 1861
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Fort Sumter
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Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers
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VA, AR, NC, TN join the Confederacy
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Loyal slave states
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DE, MD, KY, MO
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Advantages of the North
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Greater population, industrial base, superior resources
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Advantages of the South
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Cotton, superior military leaders
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Gradual compensated emancipation
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Lincoln’s original idea for Emancipation
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Emancipation Proclamation - Sept. 22, 1862
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Slaves freed in states in rebellion as of 1/1/1963
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Union financing of the war
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National Bank Act of 1863, taxing borrowing, legal tender “greenbacks”
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Confederate financing of the war
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Taxes, bond issues, paper money
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Total casualties ( deaths )
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over 600,000
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Casualties in all of U.S. wars
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Less than 600,000
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Lee surrenders to Grant
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Appomattox Court House, 4/9/1965
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Lincoln Assassinated
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April 4, 1865
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Lincoln’s 10% plan
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restored a seceded state upon request of 10% of 1860 voters
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Lincoln’s provisional governments restored
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NC, MS, GA, TX, AL, SC, FL
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Wade-Davis Bill
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restored a state upon request of majority of voters - Lincoln gave it a pocket veto
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Johnson reconstruction policy
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General amnesty to all except ex-confederates and rebels whose wealth exceeded $20,000; must swear allegiance to U.S. and ratify 13th Amendment
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Johnson governments
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VA, LA, AR, TN
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Congress refuses to seat Johnson governments
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Failure of Lincoln-Johnson Presidential reconstruction
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Thadeus Stevens, Charles Summer;
Ben Wade (Radical Republican Reconstruction) |
Radical Republican Leaders
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Joint Committe on Reconstruction
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proposes radical reconstruction measures, including the 14th Amendment
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Established to protect rights of freed slaves
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Civils Rights Act of 1866
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confers citizenship and legal equality
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Command of the Army Act
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Divides South into 5 Military districts
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Tenure of Office Act
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Forbade President to dismiss cabinet officers without Senate approval
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Johnson impeached for “highcrimes and
misdemeanors” chiefly for violation of
the Tenure of Office Act of 1867
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Senate failed to convict and remove from office
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