Civil War Flashcards
1
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Who was the president of the confederate states?
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Jefferson Davis
2
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What did Lincoln say in his inauguration speech?
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plea to maintain the union
3
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How did Lincoln react to situation in Fort Sumter?
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- sleepless nights
- reinforce sumter,send food, wont fire the first shot
4
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April 12, 1861
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- south opened fire, civil war began
5
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Lincoln’s initial actions after war break out?
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- slavery is not the only issue
- arrest southern sympthenizers
6
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States in the Union still with slavery.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delware
7
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Why did Lincoln complain about General McLellan?
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Huge ego but won no wars
8
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Who was leading the American troops in the west? What major battle?
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Ulysses Grant
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9
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What general led the confederate troops?
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Robert E. Lee
10
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Lincoln’s attempt to hurt the south?
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-free slaves, military necessity, Emancipation Proclamtion
11
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How did Lincoln purpose to handle influx of slaves?
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colonization, thought 2 races live apart
12
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How did people in the North react to the Emancipation Proclamation?
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- race riots
- Soldiers no
- Abolitionists yes
13
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Lincolns attitude change towards AA
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-gave them a chance, stop mentioning colonization
14
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Gettysberg Address
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- turning point
- 2 min
- why they keep fighting
15
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13th Amendment
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End to slavery
16
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Attempt to end war, what does Lincoln offer
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peace, compensation, if they rejoin without union
17
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Where did lincoln visit in 1865
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Richmond
18
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Lincoln reccomendention for AA
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- vote
19
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Lincolns assanination
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- April 14th, 1865
- Fords theatre
- John Booth
20
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When was Gettysberg
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July 1st-3rd
21
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Confederate Union leaders @ Gettysberg
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Robert E, Lee, Meed
22
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Little Round top
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Elevtion
23
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When was picketts charge
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July 3rd 1863
24
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2 fundamental ideas US based upon
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- freedom
- right to maintain property
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How did cotton gin revoloutionize industry?
encourage large scale processing of cotton
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What was the mason dickson line
The border between pennsylivana and mary land
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Uncle Toms Cabin
- sympthetic potrait of black slaves in racist times
- gained northern support
- Harriet Stowe
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Canadas role for enslaved
- would escape to settle there
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John Brown
- sized federal arsenal
- murdered pro slavery
- violence only way
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Missouri Compromise
- addmitted misouri as a slave state, and maine as a free state
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How was the new republican party created
Northern Whigs, and Ablonist
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Election 1860
-slavery fractured democrats
- 4 partys
Lincoln won
- demostrated divisions before civil war
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Compromise of 1850
- consist of 5 laws
- delt with slavery and territorial expansion
- California upset free/slave balance
- fugitive slave act
settled boundary despute
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Fugitive Slave Law
- allowed for the capture and return of runway slaves
- sparked large migration to Canada
- free balcks illegally captured and sold
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
- repealled missouri compromise
- created 2 new territories
- produced bleeding kansas
- raised possibility of extension of slavery
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Bleeding Kansas
- repeated outbreaks of violence
- showed armed conflict over slavery was unavoidable
- repealed missouri compromise
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Dred Scott Decsiosn
- Dred scott not a free person by sumpreme court
- divide grew
- secession from union of north
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What did the law in 1808 states
illegal to bring any more slaves into country
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Plantaion
- mansion house
- cabins shown off
- kicthen building
- school house
- workshopes
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Why were men on both sides eager to enlist?
north: restore union
| south defend slavery
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Why were two sides seemingly unmatched?
- population of north
| - only single iron works in south
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Advantages of South
- slave labour
- aims easily achieved
- hope for internation help
- trained commanders
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Southern Blockade
- block ports
| - starve out south resources
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Vicksburg
- captured confederate forces
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Women in Civil War
north: farms, factories, store, schools, nurses
south: running plantations, nurses, mini factories in houses
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Shermans Atlantic Strategie
- burn the city, slow march, along 400 km route, fear dread
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Devastation in South
- ruins, ashes, economy abloshied
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Lincolns Attempt to reconstruct
- never condemned nor praised, 4 years of war consequences of slavery
- only person accumulated political capital to reconcile north and south.
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free states
- massechuatts
- new hampshire
- rhode island'-connecticiut
- new york
- pennsylvania
- new jersey
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slave states
- delware
- maryland
- virginia
- north carlinai
- south
- georgia
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Border States
-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia-
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Fracture of A Nation
Secontonlism: economic, social, elections, north, south, west
Slavery: slave trade, abonlinist movements, free vs slave, railraod
Key Events: Emanicpation Proclamtion, Gettysberg Address
Reconstruction: slavery ends, what does freedom mean
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American Slave Trade System
- 320 years
| - largest scale emigration
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Life of Slave
37% of south population was slaves
- severats or artisans
- field hand
- task system ( rice) each slave had a specfic task
- gang system ( cottan) all day in the field, threat of physical punishment
- loss of dignity
- famillies broken up
- christanity
- psychological and physical torment
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Fight Against Slavery
- abolonist movement: north move to aboloish slavery
- William Loyd Garrison: American Anti Slavery Society
- Fredrick Douglas: escaped slave, excellent speaker
- Back to Africa movement
- Harriet Tubman underground railroad
- Uncles Tom Cabin
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Politics and Violence
- tensions over Kansas Nebraska Act
- John browns raid
- resulrs in regin of violence
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Drifiting Towards Civil War
- nations economy grew: tech, factories, labour supply
- public land could be purchased for cheap, 2/3 nation in agriculture
- immigrants encouraged
-addition of new states ( free vs slave)
- Slavery brought to head election
- Seven deep south states voted for secession between election and inaguration
S. carolina, Miss., Flordia, Texas, Alabama, Gerogia, Lousiana
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Canadites in elction of 1860
- highlight divides
- Rep. A.Lincoln : morally opposed, blacks inferior
- S. Dem. J.Breckinridge, slavery = states right
- N. Dem S.Douglas: anti slave, pro popular sovereighty
- Constiutional Union Army. J. Bell: comromise is cruciel
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Where was the surrender
Appomattoz courthouse
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Why had the south fallen
- CSA underestimated Lincoln
- supply lines were cut off
- King cotton Diplomacy
- no tax
- state right second to unity
- slaves to help south
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Terms of Surrender
- CSA paroled
- allowed horses
- 25 000 rations
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Southern Reconstruction
- freed slaves worked as share croppers
- created viscous cycle of debt
- Northers moved to south for profit ( carpet baggers)
- KKK developed
- system of segrigation know as Jim Crow Laws
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Presidental Reconstructio
- amendment abolishes slavery
- Lincoln assinated
- issued amensty proclamation, pardoned most rebels, returned land, individual pardons
- policy prevented freed balck people from recieving land in the soyth
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Congress reconstruction
- republicans dominated congress due to balck vote
- civil rights act recongized black people as full citizens
- 15th amendemt from taking away vote
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Share cropping
- a share of crop, housing
- owner of property share profit
- set price, only buy seeds from owner
- indepted
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Who was the presidnet before Lincoln
Buchanan, had admistration scandals
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Border War
- border state support was important to both sides, effect outcome of war
- federal troops to sway maryland
- Kentuckey proclaimed netural
- General invaded states
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South Durning War
- bread riots
- no sheriffs police
- paided for war by borrowing
-Erlander and Co held large confederate bonds
- Gettysberg stopped Europe to stop buying bonds
-
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Medical Care
- unprepared
- churches and schools as medical facilities
- amputation usual cure
- Joseph Barnes
- Chimbarazo
- Disease biggets killer
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Shermans March takes Atlanta and marches through Georgia
- sherman assumed command in west when grant promoted
- ordered to capture atlanta
- burned city
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Confederate government collapses
April 1865, Richmond
- people fleeing after georgia
- no ports
- thought england and france would help
- monye became worthless
- worried about each state indpendtly
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Who did the rebels plan to kill?
President, Vice Presidnet, Secratary
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What did booth say after assinating lincoln?
SicSempertyrannis
