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28 Cards in this Set
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Battle of Bull Run
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1st major military battle of civil war
- confeds attacked feds and won. the feds fled to dc - shatters northern assumption that they would win easily, thought war would only last a few weeks |
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3 pronged fed strategy
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Anaconda Plan
- use US navy and block southern coastline - divide confederacy into 2 @ mississippi river and cut off texas and Louisiana and Arkansas - raise and train an army of 500,000 to take Richmond, VA- the confederate capital |
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union only gets like 2 victories all year
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mhm
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second battle of bull run
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- confederate attack
- Pope trapped Jackson's men - sent wave after wave - when Jackson's men were low, Lee sent Longestreet's men and it made Pope retreat |
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Antietam
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- bloodiest single day in the war
- ends in southern retreat, but no winner really bc so many ppl died |
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south want political and economic help
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they look to britain and france
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Trent Affair
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2 confederate diplomats
- traveled on the trent (a boat) to britain - a union warship stops them - locks the two in jail |
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Britain
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- just found other places to get cotton
- south was still relying on cotton diplomacy - |
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for the union,,
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its important to keep the border states
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who is behind the abolitionist movement
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the youth
- we have to step lightly about this |
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- if slaves are runaways, Benjamin Button says
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they are not free but they are not slaves
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Confiscation Act
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- permitted the confiscation of any property, including slaves, being used to support the confederate independence effort
- This meant that all slaves that fought or worked for the Confederate military were freed whenever they were "confiscated" by Union troops. |
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2nd Confiscation Act 1862
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- It stated that any Confederate official, military or civilian, who did not surrender within 60 days of the act's passage would have their slaves freed.
- However, this act was only applicable to Confederate areas that had already been occupied by the Union Army. |
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the slave labor within the confederacy is aiding the war up
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mhm
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first 2 years of war suck for union
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also ensures that Britain and France wont be helping out the confederacy
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July 1862
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- lincoln decides freeing slaves was necessary
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emancipation proclamation
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- lincoln had been building up to this for a while
- lists all states considered in rebellion - sets all slaves in those states free - commits US to a policy of abolition - only frees these states in theory; bc it frees states that are out of union control, so they cant actually enforce the proclamation - gives union troops more inspiration to fight bc theyre fighting against slavery |
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dec 1856, 13th ammendment passes
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- abolishes slavery
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Chancellorsville
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- confederate economy is in shambles
- affects military efficiency |
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vicksburg mississipii
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- major union victory
- bombarded city w artillery till they surrendered |
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2nd big union victory
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gettysburg
- started w confederate offensive - july 1, confederates surprise union at gettysburg - bloodiest battle in the war - union still prevails - confederates fled to Va - union kept upperhand for rest of war |
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by 1864- Ulysses S Grant has proved himself to Lincoln
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yup
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Sherman's March
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- william tecumsah sherman
- campaign of deliberate destruction in the south - cotton fields, barns, houses |
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election of 1864
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- lincoln prevails, reelected
- andrew johnson- vp - lincoln sweeped victory |
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Spring 1865
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confederate forces have been reduced to be around Richmond, Va
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April 19 1865
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confederate military surrender
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April 14 1865
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Lincoln is assassinated
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post war years
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- we dont have lincoln anymore
- how are we gonna deal w this? - need to watch out for freed slaves - north depended on south for crops til now |
