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| 2 MAJOR OUTCOMES |
1. Fed Gov is supreme
-1st draft
-1st income tax
-greenbacks, NBS
-welfare system
2. NOrth is supreme
-Congress passed legislation
-high tariffs
-millionarie class
-transportation |
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| CONSEQUENCES OF WAR |
1. slavery banned
2. industrial surge
3. expanded fed powers of taxation
4. national banking system; print currency
5. army
6. federal courts
7. Freedman's Bureau |
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| North Economic Boom |
more prosperous
millionaire class
dishonest agents
sewing ma chines, measurements
GRAIN sent cotton packing |
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| Jefferson Davis |
view on central gov vs S's view of states rights |
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| Pacific Railway Act |
authroized the building of a transcontinental RR over N route to link economies of CALI and W territories with E states |
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| Morrill Land Grant Act |
enouraged states to use the sale of federal land grantes to maintain agricultural and technical colleges |
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| Homestead Act |
promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering acres of land free to w/e person or family who would farm it |
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| Morril Tariff Act |
riased tariff rates to increase revenue and protect Am manufacturers |
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| National Banking System |
manage all added revenue moving in and out of Treasury
first unified banking network since BUS |
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| N financed war |
raising tarriffs (Moririll Tariff of 1861)
adding excise taxes
first income tax
US treasury issued Greenbacks |
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| Riots against draft |
Irish Am mod attacked blacks and wealthy whites |
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| Conscription Acts |
made all men liable for military service
-avoid service by finding sub or pay exemtion fee |
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| Civil Liberties |
gov is more concered with war than protecting citizen's rights
-suspended writ of habeas corpus
EX PARTE MILLIGAN
civilians had been subj to military trial
procedures only used when regular civilia courts were unavailable |
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| Peace Dem & Copperheads |
opposed war and wanted peace |
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| Political Factions |
radical: those who campained immediate abolition
moderate: free soilers who cared about economic opportunities for whites |
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| 3 Events |
Sheridan takes Shenandoah Vally
Admiral Farragut takes Mobile Bay, AL
Sheridan takes Atlanta & March |
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| Assassination of LIncoln |
2nd inaugral speech
John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre killed Lincoln
last chance at lenient welcome to Union |
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| Surrender at Appomatox |
Lee was forced to surrender at the court house |
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| Election of 1864 |
Dem's nominee: McClellan
called for peace, wide appeal for voters who've had enough of the war
Republicans renamed to Union party to attract votes of "War Democrats"
chose Lincoln as pres and Johnson |
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| Sherman's March |
led force from TN to Georgia then S Carolina
destroyed everything
took Atlanta in time to help Lincoln's reelection
destroyed Confederacy's will to fight |
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| Grant uses attrition |
Battles: Wilderness, Spotsylvania, & Cold Harbor |
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| Gettysburg |
Lee again tried the offensive side (Maryland and Penn)
-hoped to force N to call for peace or gain foreign aid
-S Army surprised Unikno in Gettysburg
Pickett's charge |
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| Vicksburg (Spring 1863) |
Union forces controlled New Orlnans and most of MIss Riv
Union artillery bombarded Vicksburg for 7 weeks b4 Confeds surrendered city |
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| Freedman Army |
54th Massachusettes Remines
Army of Freedom |
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| 13th Amendment |
abolishing slavery |
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| Confederate Raiders |
Alabama raider captured 60 vessels b4 being sunk
Britain agreed to pay the US for damages cuased by teh S's raiders |
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| Trent Affiar |
Britain came close to siding w/ Confed
James Mason & John Slidell were Confed diplomats that traveled to England on The Trent to gain recognition
A Union warship stopped the British ship, taking the two men and brought them as POW
Lincoln released them to British demands |
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| David Farragut |
captured New Orleans |
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| Grant and Missisipi |
capture Fort Henry and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River
Albert Johnston's Confed army surprised Grant at Shiloh, TN
Union army held its ground and forced Confed to retreat
Draw |
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| Monitor vs. Merrimac |
Confed ironclad ship: Merrimac
Union ironclad ship: Monitor
5 hour duel in Virginia
Monitor prevented the S's ironclad ship from challenging US naval blockade
DRAW |
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| Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia |
General Ambrose Burnside replaced McClellan
Attacked Lee's army
Draw |
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| Battle of Antietam (Sept 1862) |
Lee led armyb across Potomac into enemy Maryland
wanted to win victory on home turf to get attn from foreign powers
Lincoln let Mc command Union army b/c knew battle plan
BLOODIEST COMBAT 22,000 killed/wounded
Lincoln again removed Mc for last time
draw but Confed didn't get recognition or aid from foreign power
led to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Second Battle of Bull Run |
Lee drew Pope into a trap in N Virginia
Southern victory |
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| Peninsula Campaign (March 1862) |
-McClellan insisted that his troops be given a long period of training and disipline b4 battle
-Lincoln became impatient b/c delayed
-Mc's army invaded Virginia but was stopped by Confed Robert E. Lee
-Mc was replaced by John Pope
-Sourthern victory |
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| Union Strategy |
Winfield Scott deveised a three part strategy for winning long war
1. use the US navy to blockade Southern ports (Anaconda Plan)
2. Divide Confed in two by taking control of Mississippi Riv
3. Raise and train an army strong to take Richmond |
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| First Battle of Bull Run |
marched from Wash DC->Bull Run Creek @ Manassas Jujnction, Virginia
Union loss
General Thomas Jackson Stonewall: S commander |
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| Confed faced shortage of money |
-tried loans, income tax, and impressment of privat property
-revenues paid for only a small part of war's cost
-gov was forced to issue inflation paper money |
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| Constitution of Confederacy |
6 year term for Pres
denied the Confed congress teh powers to levy a protective tarriff and to appropriate funds for internal improvements
prohibit foreign slave trade |
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| Sorth Political Advantage |
wanted to turn Lincoln andRepubs to quit war b/c too costly |
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| North Political Advantage |
well established entral gov
experienced politicions w/ popular base |
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| South Economic Advantage |
hoped that overseas demand for cotton would bring recognition and financial aid
outside help is essentil if successful war for independence |
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| North Economic Advantage |
controlled banking and capital of country
skills for logistical spport of large military operations |
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| South Military Advantage |
fight defensivee war
move troops and supplies shorter distances
long, indented coasdtline that was difficult to blockade
experienced military leaders and high troop morale |
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| North Military Advantage |
more population
immigrants enlisted in Union
af am in Union
loyal us navy |
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| Border States |
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, & Kentucky
stayed b/c of shrewd federal policies
loss of border states would increase Confed pop and weaken N's strategic position for war
reluctant to push emancipation of slaves |
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| Lincoln had power as both chief executive and commander in chief w/o authorization or approval of congress b/c not in session |
called for volunteers
authorized spending for the war
suspended writ of habeas corpus
supervised voting in BOrder States |
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| First Battle? |
Fort Sumter
Charleston, S Carolina
-cut off from vital supplies & reinforcements by s control of the harbor
-Lincoln sent provisions of food |
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