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| one of the many fire eaters who supported succession as early as the crisis of 1850 |
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| formation of the Confederate States of America |
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| Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens |
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| president and vice president of the Confederacy |
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| Senator John J. Crittenden |
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wanted to extend the Missouri compromise to extend all the way through the territories
Lincoln wanted each state to decide on its own and not encourage imperial conquests in the caribbean and central america |
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| April 12, 1861 refused to surrender the fort to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy lays seige to it |
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| created due to the succession in October 1861 |
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| Delaware , Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky |
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| General George B. McClellan |
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| appointed by Lincoln to defend Washington, D.C. (Northwest Virginia) |
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| Lincoln's army is also known as.... |
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| the Army of the Potomac (under the command of McClellan) |
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General McDowell vs. General Beauregard at Manassas, ends with Union retreat
--> McDowell is replaced with McClellan |
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| Second Battle of Bull Run, aka The Battle of Antietam |
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defending attack from Stonewall Jackson and eventually Robert E. Lee
McClellan delays an attack on Lee but Lee eventually retreats |
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| Ulysses S. Grant uses riverboats to capture Fort Henry, forces a Confederate withdrawl |
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protects citizens from arbitrary arrest
during the war Lincoln suspends habeas corpus in order to force conscription |
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| southern reliance on exporting cotton to European countries to provide revenue to purchase supplies for the war |
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| gave 160 acres land to settlers after 5 years of residence |
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| Secretary of the Treasury, created a national banking system by forcing thousands of local banks to accept federal charters and regulations |
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| authorized $150 million in paper currency, known as greenbacks |
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| The Confiscation Act, 1861 |
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General Benjamin Butler
authorized seizure of all property used in the rebellion
contraband of war |
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emancipation as an instrument of war
Radical Republicans using wartime legislation to destroy slavery |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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didn't free a single slave
permitted slavery to continue to areas occupied by the Union army |
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back-to-back Union victories by Ulysses S. Grant
Southern armies would no longer invade the North
Southern citizens began criticizing the war effort |
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Britain impounds the ironclad cruiser that they had built for the South due to their reliance on Midwest wheat and flour
--> the failure of King Cotton |
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| 54th Massachusetts Infantry |
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| first all-African American regiment |
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name change of the Republican party to attract border-state and Democratic voters
chose Andrew Johnson as the running mate of Lincoln |
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September 1864 seized Atlanta
convinced Grant and Lincoln to let him march to the sea
total war |
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first known as Peace Democrats, called for a convention to restore peace
supported by the South because they felt they could persuade them to allow for an independent Confederacy
--> called Copperheads after the change in military situation (seizing Atlanta) causes them to change their mind and leave the Southerners feeling betrayed |
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Grant gains control of a railway junction cutting off Lee's supplies and cuts off his escape route towards North Carolina
--> Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House |
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