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War On Home And Foreign Fronts Flashcards

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Year of Confederate conscription Act

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1862

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Number of Secretaries of State and secretaries of war under Davis

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4 state, 6 war

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Jefferson Davis military experience

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Fought in Mexican War

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Roles of Judah Benjamin in Confed gov

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First Secretary of Justice, then War, then State

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Number of Confederate cabinet members serving from start to end

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Only 3

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Reasons for Benjamin’s success in cabinet (2)

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Prepared to take responsibility

Very close relationship to Davis

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Number of employees in Confederate War Department

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57,000 civilians

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Longest serving Confed War secretary

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James Seddon, Nov 1862-Feb 1865

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Number of Confed Congressmen in U.S. Congress

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1/3 of 267

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9
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N New to Confed after 1863 Congressional Election (%)

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40%

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Congressional opposition to Davis

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Many but not United

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Governor Brown of Georgia, undermining Confed effort

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Opposed conscription

Fake state militias

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12
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Role of voluntary associations in Confed war effort

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Women’s groups made clothing and flags

Local communities supplied troops

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13
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Problems with Confed finance (4)

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Few gold reserves
Taxes unpopular
Cotton hard to trade
Borrowing led to inflation

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Confed 1863 Impressment Act, new powers

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Seizure of goods to support front line, 10% of all produce from farmers

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% of Confed income from taxes

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8%

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16
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Amount raised in Feb 1861 by Confed Treasury through bonds and stocks

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$15 million

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17
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Problems with Confed bonds from 1863

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Less popular as cotton couldn’t be exported out, loss of security

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Inflation in Confed, price of bacon 1861, 63

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$1.25 to $10.00 for 10 lbs

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Price multiple 1861-65 in East Confed

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5000x

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Year of Memminger’s, Treasury Secretary, resignation

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1864

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21
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New Confed Secretary of Treasury after 1864

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George Trenholm

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Role of Ordnance Burea

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Gov agency responsible for acquiring war materials

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Leader of Ordnance Bureau

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Josiah Gorgas

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Quota on blockade runners (year, quota)

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  1. 1/3 cotton out, 1/3 war supplies in
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Year of ban on luxury goods being imported

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1864

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26
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Success rate of blockade runners

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75%

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Confederate imports of small arms and saltpetre (%)

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60% small arms, 75% saltpetre

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28
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Reduction in cotton production 1861-64

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4 million in 1861 to 300,000 in 1864

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29
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Number of men mobilised by Confederacy

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900,000 men, 40% of white males of fighting age

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30
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Effect of conscription on Confed women

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Longer hours

Women took men’s jobs

31
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Number of men from initially Confed states joining Union armies

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90,000

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Highest death rate in Confed army, by class

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Planters leading men into battle

33
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Year of Lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus

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1862

34
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Number of people arrested after suspension of habeus corpus

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40,000 subject to arbitrary arrest

35
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Lincoln’s dictatorial actions in April 1861 (3)

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Called for troops, proclaimed a blockade in South and ordered military spending of $2 million without approval from congress

36
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Lincoln’s work hours

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7 am to 11 pm

37
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Make up of US congress in 1861

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105 Republicans, 43 Democrats and 28 Unionists

38
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Number of Republicans in US senate after 1862 mid term elections

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31 of 48

39
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Health associated voluntary association in Union

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United States Sanitary Commission

40
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Number of Northerners owning a share of US national debt

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1 million

41
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Proportion of Union’s revenue from loans and bonds

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2/3

42
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Proportion of Union’s revenue from taxes

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1/5

43
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Terms of 1861 Union income tax

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3% of incomes over $800

44
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What did the Internal Revenue Act tax in Union from 1862

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Everything

45
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Amount of money issued by 1862 Legal Tender Act

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$150 million in paper

46
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Union constraints to inflation

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10% tax on state bank notes

47
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Inflation in Union over the war

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80%

48
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Terms of 1862 Homestead Act

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Free 160 acre farms in West if land would be worked for 5 years

49
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Effect of war on Union exports

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Wheat, corn, beef and pork doubled

50
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Increase in wheat growing, 1862-3 to 1859

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More in Union states in 1862/63 than whole US in 1859

51
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Increase in land being cultivated between 1862 and 1864

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2.5 million acres

52
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Reduction in immigration from the war

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Immigration fell by 1.3 million, population fell by 5.6% with war and immigration

53
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Race riots in 1863 in North, key cities (4)

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Chicago, Buffalo, Boston and New York

54
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Key source of opposition to Lincoln during war

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Democrats

55
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Nickname for anti-war Democrats in the Union

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The Copperheads

56
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State of Clement Vallandigham

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Ohio

57
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Year of Vallandigham’s campaign and for what

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1863 for Ohio governor

58
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Charge and punishment for Vallandigham

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Treason and imprisonment for rest of the war

59
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Month of New York Draft Riots

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July 1863

60
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Cause of New York Draft Riots and man responsible

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Conscription Act and Democrat Governor Horatio

61
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Number of troops needed to restore order after New York draft riots

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20,000

62
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British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister in War

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Lord Russell, FS and Lord Palmerston as PM

63
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British attitude to conflict and when adopted

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Neutrality from May 1861

64
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Confederate attempts to bring Britain into the war

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Cotton embargo to try and force blockade break

65
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Name of Confed newspaper set up in UK

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Index

66
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Union minister to London

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Charles Francis Adams

67
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Names of Confed Commissioners in Trent Affair

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James Mason and John Slidell

68
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Ship in Trent Affair

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British Steamer called Trent

69
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British response to Trent Affair (5)

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Demanded release of Sidell and Mason
Public apology by US
Prepared British fleet for action 
Sent troops to Canada
Stopped war trade
70
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Lincoln’s resolution to Trent Affair

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Didn’t apologise but accepted illegality and released Slidell and Mason

71
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Cotton situation in Britain before and after 1863

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Before, high unemployment in mills

After, replaced by imports from China, India and Egypt

72
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Most Successful Commerce raider

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Alabama, sinking 64 ships

73
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Effect of Commerce Raiders

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Nuisance not crippling

Only 200 ships sunk

74
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Naval crisis between Union and Britain in 1863

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Laird Rams

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