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Who was the president of the confederate states?

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Jefferson Davis

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What did Lincoln say in his inauguration speech?

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plea to maintain the union

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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

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April 12, 1861

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  • south opened fire, civil war began
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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

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States in the Union still with slavery.

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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delware

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Why did Lincoln complain about General McLellan?

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Huge ego but won no wars

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Who was leading the American troops in the west? What major battle?

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Ulysses Grant

Shioloh

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What general led the confederate troops?

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Robert E. Lee

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Lincoln’s attempt to hurt the south?

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-free slaves, military necessity, Emancipation Proclamtion

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How did Lincoln purpose to handle influx of slaves?

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colonization, thought 2 races live apart

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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
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Lincolns attitude change towards AA

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-gave them a chance, stop mentioning colonization

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Gettysberg Address

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  • turning point
  • 2 min
  • why they keep fighting
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13th Amendment

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End to slavery

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Attempt to end war, what does Lincoln offer

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peace, compensation, if they rejoin without union

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Where did lincoln visit in 1865

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Richmond

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18
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Lincoln reccomendention for AA

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  • vote
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Lincolns assanination

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  • April 14th, 1865
  • Fords theatre
  • John Booth
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When was Gettysberg

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July 1st-3rd

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Confederate Union leaders @ Gettysberg

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Robert E, Lee, Meed

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Little Round top

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Elevtion

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23
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When was picketts charge

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July 3rd 1863

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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?

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encourage large scale processing of cotton

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What was the mason dickson line

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The border between pennsylivana and mary land

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Uncle Toms Cabin

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  • sympthetic potrait of black slaves in racist times
  • gained northern support
  • Harriet Stowe
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Canadas role for enslaved

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  • would escape to settle there
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John Brown

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  • sized federal arsenal
  • murdered pro slavery
  • violence only way
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Missouri Compromise

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  • addmitted misouri as a slave state, and maine as a free state
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How was the new republican party created

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Northern Whigs, and Ablonist

32
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Election 1860

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-slavery fractured democrats
- 4 partys
Lincoln won
- demostrated divisions before civil war

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Compromise of 1850

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • repealled missouri compromise
  • created 2 new territories
  • produced bleeding kansas
  • raised possibility of extension of slavery
36
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Bleeding Kansas

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  • repeated outbreaks of violence
  • showed armed conflict over slavery was unavoidable
  • repealed missouri compromise
37
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Dred Scott Decsiosn

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  • Dred scott not a free person by sumpreme court
  • divide grew
  • secession from union of north
38
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What did the law in 1808 states

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illegal to bring any more slaves into country

39
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Plantaion

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  • mansion house
  • cabins shown off
  • kicthen building
  • school house
  • workshopes
40
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Why were men on both sides eager to enlist?

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north: restore union

south defend slavery

41
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Why were two sides seemingly unmatched?

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  • population of north

- only single iron works in south

42
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Advantages of South

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  • slave labour
  • aims easily achieved
  • hope for internation help
  • trained commanders
43
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Southern Blockade

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  • block ports

- starve out south resources

44
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Vicksburg

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  • captured confederate forces
45
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Women in Civil War

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north: farms, factories, store, schools, nurses
south: running plantations, nurses, mini factories in houses

46
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Shermans Atlantic Strategie

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  • burn the city, slow march, along 400 km route, fear dread
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Devastation in South

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  • ruins, ashes, economy abloshied
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Lincolns Attempt to reconstruct

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  • never condemned nor praised, 4 years of war consequences of slavery
  • only person accumulated political capital to reconcile north and south.
49
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free states

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  • massechuatts
  • new hampshire
  • rhode island’-connecticiut
  • new york
  • pennsylvania
  • new jersey
50
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slave states

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  • delware
  • maryland
  • virginia
  • north carlinai
  • south
  • georgia
51
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Border States

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-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia-

52
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Fracture of A Nation

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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

53
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American Slave Trade System

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  • 320 years

- largest scale emigration

54
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Life of Slave

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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

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  • 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
56
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Politics and Violence

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  • tensions over Kansas Nebraska Act
  • John browns raid
  • resulrs in regin of violence
57
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Drifiting Towards Civil War

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  • 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

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  • 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
59
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Where was the surrender

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Appomattoz courthouse

60
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Why had the south fallen

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  • CSA underestimated Lincoln
  • supply lines were cut off
  • King cotton Diplomacy
  • no tax
  • state right second to unity
  • slaves to help south
61
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Terms of Surrender

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  • CSA paroled
  • allowed horses
  • 25 000 rations
62
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Southern Reconstruction

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  • 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

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  • 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
64
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Congress reconstruction

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  • republicans dominated congress due to balck vote
  • civil rights act recongized black people as full citizens
  • 15th amendemt from taking away vote
65
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Share cropping

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  • a share of crop, housing
  • owner of property share profit
  • set price, only buy seeds from owner
  • indepted
66
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Who was the presidnet before Lincoln

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Buchanan, had admistration scandals

67
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Border War

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  • border state support was important to both sides, effect outcome of war
  • federal troops to sway maryland
  • Kentuckey proclaimed netural
  • General invaded states
68
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South Durning War

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  • bread riots
  • no sheriffs police
  • paided for war by borrowing
    -Erlander and Co held large confederate bonds
  • ## Gettysberg stopped Europe to stop buying bonds
69
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Medical Care

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  • unprepared
  • churches and schools as medical facilities
  • amputation usual cure
  • Joseph Barnes
  • Chimbarazo
  • Disease biggets killer
70
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Shermans March takes Atlanta and marches through Georgia

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  • sherman assumed command in west when grant promoted
  • ordered to capture atlanta
  • burned city
71
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Confederate government collapses

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April 1865, Richmond

  • people fleeing after georgia
  • no ports
  • thought england and france would help
  • monye became worthless
  • worried about each state indpendtly
72
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Who did the rebels plan to kill?

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President, Vice Presidnet, Secratary

73
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What did booth say after assinating lincoln?

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SicSempertyrannis

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