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Chapter 15: Secession and the Civil War Flashcards

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December 20, 1860

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Convention was held in Charleston declaring unanimously the union of the United States of America was dissolved

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“Government of the people…”

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Gettysburg Address
The only cause great enough to justify the enormous sacrifice of life on the battlefields was the struggle to preserve and extend the democratic ideal

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Cooperationists

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Slave states should work as a unit.

If they triumphed, secession would have been delayed in the hopes of making peace with the north.

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Confederate States of America

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Established by the Deep South in Montgomery, Alabama.

Think about all the things the Articles did wrong.

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederates

Moderate

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Alexander Stephens

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Vice-President of the confederates

Moderate

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“Fire Eaters”

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Extreme Radicals
Yancey and Rhett
Denied place in office

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Crittenden Compromise

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Written by John Crittenden from Kentucky.

  • extend the Missouri compromise line
  • federal compensation to owners of escaped slaves
  • law that stated that the government could not control or abolish slavery in the slave states
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“Firm as an Oak”

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Lincoln refused the Crittenden Compromise and would not budge

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Star of the West

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A ship sent by Buchanan to reinforce a garrison in Charleston Harbor.
Was fired on, and turned back

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Fort Sumter

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Inside Charleston Harbor.
The Confederacy demanded that it surrender.
Lincoln have to decide whether not to let it fall.
He decided to send supplies.
Sooner so I was a hostile act and started to attack the fort on April 12

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April 12, 1861

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Confederates begin firing on Fort Sumter no one died but they surrendered under Maj. Robert Anderson.
Beginning of Hostilities

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Richmond VA

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Capital of the confederation

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Border Slave States

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Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Kentucky was neutral, until the south invaded, then they were northern
Maryland was under martial law to suppress confederate sympathizers.
Missouri, aided with the pro-Union German population, did not secede.

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Robert E. Lee

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Neither a defender of slavery or a southern nationalist. Stayed with VA in secession because he was loyal to state sovereignty.

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George Thomas

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Chose the union because it was indissoluble.

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Total War

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A war that involves all aspects of society because the north had to defeat the south so thoroughly that the south could not stand on its own.

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Offensive Defensive

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Southern commanders put it into effect.

Defend but also attack

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On to Richmond

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War could be won quickly and easily if we capture Richmond.
That isn’t how it went down.
Lard concentration of the Confederate army

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Winfield Scott

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Commander at the “On to Richmond”

Used the anaconda policy

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Anaconda Policy

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Blockade the southern coasts, seize the Mississippi, and cut off the south from food and supplies.

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Two Front War

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Keep the pressure on VA

Also advance down the Mississippi valley

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Conscription Law

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Passed to solve the problem of reenlistment among the short term volunteer soldiers. Used by the confederates.

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The Red Badge of Courafe

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Josiah Gorgas

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Director of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau.

Was able to produce/procure the southern army

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Greenbacks

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The money printed by the Union treasury.

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Martial Law

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Declare by Lincoln on Apr. 27, 1861.

Military arrested citizens suspected of aiding the enemy.

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Habeas Corpus

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Lincoln suspended the right to a trail in the area between Philly and Washington.

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Peace Democrats

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Restoration of the union via negotiations not force.

Ran for office, elected, and presented their views to the public.

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Johnston and Beauregard

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Were denied the commands they deserved because Davis and they did not get along

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Braxton Bragg

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Allowed to keep a major command, because he was a favorite of Davis, even after demonstrating his incompetence.

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Governors Brown and Vance

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Governors that opposed Davis, as he lost his popularity, on all Confederate issues that went against state sovereignty.

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Irvin McDowell

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Led an army of poorly trained troops under the “On to Richmond” thingy.

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Manassas Junction

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Where the confederate army gathered.
Near Bull Run Creek.
The Union attacked here, but the confederates held their own after the reinforcements arrived.

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Stonewall Jackson

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General Thomas J. Jackson

Held his ground at Bull Run and counterattacked the union.

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George McClellan

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First replaced McDowell, then replaced Scott (after his retirement).
Spent the winter drilling the troops.
Lincoln got impatient with him because he was taking so long.

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Forts Henry and Donelson

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Both were western forts captured by Ulysses S. Grant.

Confederates were forced out of Kentucky and middle Tennessee.

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David Farragut

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Naval Officer

Captured New Orleans and started the beginning of the events that led to control of the Mississippi.

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Virginia v. Monitor

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Monitor was a union and turreted gun ship.

It defeated the Virginia, which sank many a union vessel.

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Peninsula Campaign

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McClellan moved his troops, by water, to a peninsula off of Yorktown. Yorktown fell, and he moved his troops 20 miles out of Richmond to wait for more troops. none came, because Lincoln wanted to protect the capital.

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Battle of Seven Pines

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McClellan just barely survived the battle with Stonewall Jackson until reinforcements crossed to save the day.
Jackson was wounded during this battle, so he was replaced by Robert E. Lee.

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John Pope

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McClellan moved to slowly.
Lee got to Pope before he did and fought the second battle of Bull Run.
Lee is a great strategist.
Pope fled the the safety of the capital.

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Antietam

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Bloodiest one day battle of the war.
Lee was trying to cut off Washington from the Union.
McClellan caught up to him and, though the end result was a draw, pushed him back.
McClellan was slow in pursuit and was blamed for letting Lee escape.

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Ambrose E. Burnside

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Replaced McClellan because he was infected with “the slows”

The fuck was aggressive, but also daft.

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Fredericksburg

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Burnside launched a direct assault on an entrenched enemy on higher ground, and expected to win.

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