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34 Cards in this Set
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South Carolina seceded |
December 20th 1860 |
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the CSA |
First capital of Montgomery Alabama President Jefferson Davis vice president Alexander Stephens |
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The Crittenden Compromise |
Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky presents to plan for compromise, extending the 36-30 line to the ocean compensation for owners of escaped slaves Constitutional Amendment protecting slavery |
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Fort Sumter |
Confederate attack on the federal fort in Charleston South Carolina first shot of the Civil war |
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second wave of secession |
Because of Lincoln's call up for troops, Virginia Arkansas North Carolina and Tennessee also seceded |
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Robert E Lee |
Opposed slavery and was not a southern nationalist he fought for Virginia out of loyalty |
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Northern advantages |
Population, industry, railroad mileage and Lincoln's leadership |
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Southern advantages |
Fighting a defensive War, fervent cos, and Military leadership |
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Northern strategy |
Anaconda Plan, Winfield Scott, blockade Coast take Mississippi River take Richmond |
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southern strategy |
Offensive defensive, primarily defensive, but go on attack when the opportunity arose |
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conscription |
A draft was passed by both North and South in 1862 |
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the confiscation Acts |
A series of laws intended to liberate the slaves in the Confederacy |
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Ex parte merryman 1861 |
Chief justice Rodger Taney ruled that habeas corpus could only be set aside by Congress, 864 people were held without trial during the first nine months of the war, Lincoln ignored Tony's report |
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Antietam |
1862, became the bloodiest single day of the Civil War |
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Antietam gave President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
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the Alabama |
Confederate purchased from Britain it's ink 62 Union ships |
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the Trent affair |
Two Confederate officials were taken captive before the British ship, Trent, Britain threatened war with the North, Lincoln had them released he said one War at a time |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Gave the South 100 days to stop fighting without losing their slaves and freed slaves in Rebellion territory went into effect January one 1863 day of Jubilee |
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54th Massachusetts colored regiment |
Black unit originally Payless first used as non-combative roles |
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13th Amendment 1865 |
abolish slavery |
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Enrollment Act of 1863 |
Created a giraffe, could hire substitutes for $300 |
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the New York City draft riots |
Mainly Irish - American workers burn draft offices, the homes of leading Republicans and an orphanage for black children, they also lynched more than a dozen innocent blacks, 120 deaths |
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Copperheads |
Northerners who advocated peace at any cost |
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Gettysburg and Vicksburg |
To Union victories both on July 4th 1863, marked the turning point of the war |
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the Gettysburg Address |
Lincoln short speech attracted little attention at the time, became one of the most important speeches in history |
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General William Tecumseh Sherman |
March to the Sea through Georgia |
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Sherman burned Atlanta and captured Savannah |
Gave Lincoln Savannah as a Christmas gift |
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General Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the McLean house in Appomattox Courthouse Virginia |
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater |
Only five days after Lee surrendered |
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The moral Tariff of 1861 |
Increase tariffs to help businesses because of the poor economic conditions |
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the Homestead Act of 1862 |
Gave 160 acres of land free two people that would form the land for at least 5 years |
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Morrill land-grant Act of 1862 |
Encourage states to use the sale of federal land grants to support colleges |
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The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 |
Gave land to companies for a Transcontinental Railroad |
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Ex parte Milligan 1866 |
Suspension of habeas corpus was lawful but military tribunals did not apply to citizens |
