History Final: The Civil War

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What happened in November 1860 (Election of 1860)

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Lincoln becomes president

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What happens December 1860-Febrauary 1861?

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7 states secede from the Union

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What happened March 4, 1861?

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Lincoln's Inaugural Address. *Before this, some states already seceded

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Border states

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States that had slaves, but were still apart of the Union
Separated the Union with Confederacy
Consisted of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, and Missouri (slave states)

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Abraham Lincoln's goal

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To get the Confederacy back into the Union and he said he would do whatever it takes to make it happen

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Which side is Lincoln keeping the border states with?

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Keeping the border states with the union

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Who created the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Lincoln

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Gettysburg Address

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Lincoln said:
Honored the dead on both sides
Coming together: Unity
America is being tested to see if a nation that is free and values liberty can survive
If we lose the war then a nation that is free and values liberty can not last, so we need to win. We need to prove to the other countries that we can survive.

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Advantages of the Union

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21 million people lived in 23 Northern states
The north had an enormous industrial advantage
The seas were in control of the union since the north controlled the navy
Had a lot more railroads to travel and go places

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Advantages of the Confederacy

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South claimed just 9 million people- including 3.5 million slaves- in 11 Confederate states
They had a great nucleus of trained officers
Seven of the eight military colleges were in the south
Their greatest strength was the fact that it was fighting on the defensive in its own territory

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Disadvantages of the Union

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They were not in their own territory
They had to invade, conquer, and occupy the South

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Disadvantages of the Confederacy

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They did not have an industrial advantage
There was not one rifle work int he entire south

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Anaconda Plan

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1. Blockade the South
2. Divide the Confederacy by capturing the Mississippi RIver
3. Capture Richmond, VA

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What did the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation say?

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On January 1st of the New Year, Lincoln will free all the slaves in the Confederacy unless the Confederate sates join back the Union and are no longer in rebellion. When this date comes, the people from the states in the Confederacy must have elected their people for Congress, then they will no longer be in rebellion again.

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Why does Lincoln announce the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September?

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Because he wants to give the states that are part of the Confederacy time to make up their minds

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When does Lincoln announce the Emancipation Proclamation and what does it say?

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January 1st 1863
Says slaves in the Confederate states are free but any slave states in the Union are allowed to keep their slaves.
Limits are that it only freed slaves from states that he designated.
Lincoln does this so the Confederate states can either rejoin the Union and keep their slaves or not be part of the Union and lose their slaves.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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July 1st-3rd 1863
Leaders: Robert E. Lee (C) and George Gordon Meade (U)
Greatest single battle in Western hemisphere
More men did in the battle of Gettysburg than in the entire American Revolution
Union victory

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Battle of Vicksburg

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Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant (U), Robert E. Lee (C), "Fighting Joe" Hooker (U)
Grant's army fought 5 battles in 3 weeks, isolated Vicksburg, and then began a siege on the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
Stonewall Jackson died in the fight against Hooker
Lee invaded the North in hope of getting foreign recognition
Union victory

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First turning point of the Civil War

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Battle of Antietam
Union victory causes Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Now the war is being fought for the Union to end slavery

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Second turning point of the Civil War

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Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
After these battles, Union develops a new strategy
Total war/war of attrition: wear them down, make them unwilling to put forth the effort to fight, they'll eventually surrender, carried out until Sherman's March

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Sherman's March

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1864
Leaders: Grant (U), William Tecumseh Sherman (U from South)
Happened in Georgia
Union troops go from Atlanta to Savannah
They burn and destroy anything on their way
Once they capture Atlanta they burn the city, so the Confederacy can no longer use it anymore

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Draft Riots

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Severe race riots in New York City afte the draft began
Rioters feared that, while they were fighting to free blacks, blacks would take their jobs