IDS midterm

Question 1

emancipation proclamation

Answer 1

after the union defeated lees army at antietan, Lincoln released this document that released 0 people, but changed the frame of the war. this move kept great Britain out of the war because it then became a war over slavery. Northerners became more willing to fight and southerners didn’t get British supplies

Question 2

election of 1860

Answer 2

Lincoln, Douglass, breckridge and bell. Lincoln: no expansion
Breckridge: pro slvery
Douglass: pop sov
bell: ignored it
Lincoln won in November and the south would soon succed

Question 3

fort sumpter

Answer 3

when: april 1861
where: fort sumpter, sc
who: Lincoln, anderson, beauregard
why: Lincoln wants Anderson to restock fort
what: battle against sc and Anderson
HS: creates tension between north and south, unofficially the start of civil war—–> 2nd wave of succesion

Question 4

March to the sea

Answer 4

1864
grant left to prepare an attack on lee in va
Sherman led a march in ga from Atlanta to Savanah, instruction union soldiers to destruct everything in t here patch
introduced total war =- war without regard to h human life or property
ultimately led to lees surrender

Question 5

antietam

Answer 5

who: lee vs mcellen
Where: sharpay, md
what: battle
Lee was trying to invade the north in order to get fighting out of va and get supplies
hs: Bloodiest single day battle, north won and emancipation proclomation