Prisons, Healthcare, and the End of War

Question 1

Election of 1864

Answer 1

Lincoln vs. McClellan

• Lincoln won due to Grant and Sherman’s successes in the Civil War
• Second Inaugural Address: was conciliatory to the South- reached out to them and argued that both North and South were responsible for war

Question 2

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 2

Passed after Lincoln’s re-election abolishing slavery everywhere in the nation forever
-500,000 southern slaves were freed

Question 3

Appomattox

Answer 3

Surrender of Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in VA, 1865
○ Very generous for Lee’s troops who were allowed to return home with their weapons (part of Lincoln’s plan to try to heal rifts b/w two sides)

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