The civil war Flashcards
(24 cards)
Thee attack on Fort Sumter
On April 12 1861 the confederate President Jefferson Davis order the unbothered of the Fort
Border States
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
The North’s first victory of the war
Border states loyalty to the union
Defensive Strategy
1) Stay at home and repel invasion
2) Avoid battles that risk annihilation
The Eastern Theatre
Army of the Potomac vs Army of Northern Virginia
Goal
Capture Richmond defend Richmond
His problems about the issue of slavery
a) Whites were not going to risk lives
b) Doesn’t want to lose Border States
c) Doesn’t want to alliance the Democratic Party
It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American History
Battle of Antietam
Created a National Currency
Legal Tender Act
Established a system of national banks
National Banking Act
Establish a more efficient manor of Collecting taxes
Internal Revenue Act
Designed to bolster Western loyalty by offering 160 acres of public land to settlers
Homestead Act
Provided massive federal assistance for building the transcontinental Rail Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Set aside Public land to support universities that emphasized agriculture and mechanical Arts
Land Grant College Act
14,000 imprisoned mostly border states, many without charges being brought
Habeas Corpus
Anti war Northern democrats
Copperheads
Draftee could hire a substitute for
$300.00
The fall of Vicksburg effectively
Cuts the south in half
Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address
1) invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence
2) redefined the civil war as a struggle not merely for the union but as “a new birth of freedom” that would bring equality to all of its citizens
3) ensure that democracy would remain a form of government
Pros of his strategy
1) Broke the will of the Southern people
2) made it impossible for the south to keep on fighting
3) led to massive desertion from confederate army
Cond of the strategy
1) destroyed 1/2 of southern livestock
2) wrecked half the Southern farm machinery
3) heavily damaged dozens of southern cities and towns
Democrats nominated
George B. McClellan
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
Shoots Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s theatre
John Wilkes Booth
