Other Flashcards
1
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Technology during the war
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Railroads advanced weaponry, cannons, telegraphs (war was able to be more long distance and not hand to hand combat)
2
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The Doctrine of Nullification
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south ignoring/nullifying laws passed
3
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln declared saved people in the confederacy to be free
-south felt he had no power to do so, basically ignored it
4
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Freedman’s Bureau
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an agency established by congress at the end of the civil war to help and protect newly freed black Americans
5
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Anaconda Plan
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Step 1: surround the South by sea to cut off its trade
Step 2: divide the confederacy into sections to prevent one region from helping another
Step 3: capture Richmond, Virginia (capital of the confederacy) and destroy the confederacy gov’t
