Lecture 10 Flashcards
Who are the copperheads?
These are people that quit- as many officers resigned commissions, as they were not fighting for the slaves but for the Union.
What is chancellorsville?
As Lincoln, is in need for a desperate victory, he needs to battle in which Lincoln is muttering to himself, ways in order to have the nation say, what will the nation say, ( in whihc many people leave to Chancellosiville) - as for the first time that there could beon the brink of new depression.
Committee of Nine ?
A number of congress men ready to try to mess up the power dynamic between the government.
The Fire in the Rear?
this was the conspiracy around Lincoln,
Lincoln is desperate for soldiers and creates the first federal government draft?
introduced Enrollment Act of Conscription (signed into law March 3, 1863), in which he gets people from the age of 20-45 to join hib,
Who is Clement Vallandigham?
Was a former Ohio congressman named Clement L. Vallandigham, in which he told people to leave and dessert “ king Lincoln’s Army, as he was a pro-slavery and went aganist Lincoln’s ideas.
Who are those exempted in the draft?
o Draft law exempts men in certain jobs (lawyers, government officials [certain kind], etc. & disabilied people including teethless as you need them to load the muskets-rifles)
What happens in the course of those that how do they choose who goes to war? and those they can volunteer?
Literally pull dates of birthday from a hat; people born those days need to go to war
Those volunteers that volunteered for the war, were the ones that would serve there country last were the ones that could be able to collect money?
If volunteer, volunteers, and avoids being humiliated from conscription, a volunteer can collect $500 (average full year of work)
What is the draft fee and what did this create?
Draft fee was exempted by hiring under two conditions 1) hiring a substitution or 2) paying 300 dollars
In reaction to this - this caused an inequality and a who has money rich mans war versus those poor people to fight the war?
The inequalitya nd the problem occured - that some people would pay 300 dollars and be fully exempted from the war, in which those people that as there were exemption clubs, in which those would pool money, in which ( the one that gets drafted doesnt have to go.
Bounter Jumpers ? What became of this?
Bounty jumpers was a thing, were people that would substitute a person in a state, receieve the money and just leave the state ( leave with the bount and ( literallly as someone of these people agree to serve somebody else’s place ( in which these bounty jumpers would just leave) and keep dessert
What does General Burnside do?
General burnside gets Clement Vallandigham, and arrests for two years for being part of the south “ as sympathizing for the enemy.
What occurs when Clement Vallandigham get arrested?
o No habeas corpus
Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act
Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act
he Habeas Corpus Suspension, 12 Stat. 755 (1863), entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases, was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the American Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners. It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill, introduced on December 5, 1862, releasing the president and his subordinates from any liability for having suspended habeas corpus without congressional approval.[1] The Senate amended the House’s bill,[2] and the compromise reported out of the conference committee altered it to qualify the indemnity and to suspend habeas corpus on Congress’s own authority.[3] Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law on March 3, 1863, and suspended habeas corpus under the authority it granted him six months later
