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| After what battle did Lincoln call for war? |
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| What happened in the battle of Fort Sumter? |
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Federal Fort from Moultrie moved to Fort Sumter by Robert Anderson (Kentucky) where the newly ceded south wanted to get all federal forces out. Pres Buchanan dispatched Star of the West where it was driven away. Anderson was running out supplies, to which he did but Pierre Beauregard demanded him to surrender. Beuregard won |
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| What States were confederate states? |
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C: AR, TN, NC, AK, VA, TX, SC, GA, AL |
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| How did Lincoln hold onto Maryland in becoming a Union state? |
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| Suspended writ of Habeas Corpus(Having a right to a speedy trial) and take in C prisoners |
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What advantages did the N and S have over each other? |
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N: population, more states, transportation for supplies S: Geography, and experienced leaders |
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| July 21 1861or Manassas. Each army scrambled together, supposedly going to be a quick war. Both had stragies to attack left flank. Beuaregard, Joseph Johnson, Thomas Jackson(Stonewall) vs McDowell. Union troops fled, but the C were exhausted to chase them. Start of long war |
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Moved Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. Ran out of supplies and surrender to Beauregard(Confed). Start of the war |
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| Lincoln's three pronged attack "anaconda" |
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Have army of Potomac defend DC, and pressure at Richmond. Blockade the Sotuthern coast Invade C t the navy through the Mississippi |
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| Virginia vs Monitor navy battle |
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March 8 1862 Va ship originally Union Merrimack. Monitor won and Virginia surrendered at Norfolk. |
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| 1862 captured New Orleans, and Baton Rouge |
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| extending 17-50 those over it or under it defended the states |
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| July 11 1863 caused a riot of racial and ethnic tensions and blaming blacks for starting the war |
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| Kansas Missouri Border Guerrilla warfare |
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William Quantrill pro slaver no quarter destroyed Lawrence Jayhawkers attacked pro Confederates |
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| Indians felt a bond with whites by holding slaves, led to taking sides |
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| 1862 from App mountains to Mississippi. Albert Johnson stretched 40000 men over 150 miles General Grant attacked his men, and also captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson |
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1862 Gen Johnson retreated back to Corinth MIS. Grant moved in, but his army had no cover (trenches) C struck at Shiloh, were many of U men were still in bed. Grant and Gen William Tecumseh Sherman rallied the troops and later C fled to Corinth 20,000 men dead, and due to this battle Gen Henry Halleck relieved Grant from command |
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March 1862 Gen Joseph Johnson vs McClellan Previously after much hesitation McClellan invaded Richmond but didn't secure the town leading to Johnson's attack. Both sides took many deaths and only the Union reinforcement helped them from not being massacred |
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1. Lee vs U at E Richmond June 1862 but heavy losses stopped C on keeping it up 2. Malvern Hill (July 1) C hit with guns |
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John Pope and new commander Henry Halleck to meet up but Lee attacked, meanwhile Stonewall Johnson pushed back Union troops, took supplies, destroyed fort at Manassas J.E.B. Stuart took Pope's strategy plans, while Pope engaged with Lee, Longstreet, and Johnson's army August 30 1862. 124 out of 490 men dead. |
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Lee to move battle out of south, was going toward Penn where he was found out. Also that the army was divided with Jackson off to Harpers Ferry, WV Lee vs McClellan almost U victory when Ambrose Hills division came from Harpers Ferry for the C. Confederate slipped off leading to Lincolns outrage |
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| Dec 1862Burnside vs Lee. B climbed up the icy Rappanhannock River to Lee's fort, but the C had a clear shot of them and massacred them. 12,000 U dead. |
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after the Antieam battle. Required because of slavery, morale going down, public opinion, to restore the Union, no foreign allies. January 1 1863 all slaves in Con states or those in rebellion freed Loophole that only slaves caught, that only slaves in Con were free not anywhere else |
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| Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton in the war |
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Dix: 1st union superintenden of women nurses Barton: one of first female patent clerks |
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| federal aid to state colleges for agriculture and mechanic arts |
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| Diff between North and South financing war |
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N: taxes in profession, money that can' t be traded for gold or silver, sale of bonds by Jay Cooke S: taxes which were fought on, and inflation |
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| helped U, by selling government bonds earning 2 billion |
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| Joint committe on the Conduct of War |
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| Radical republicans wanting to get rid of slavery, confiscate plantations, aggressive in war, |
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| also copperheads, wanted negiotated war,. included Andrew Johnson, and Edwin Stanton |
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| May 1863 Lee vs Hooker. Hookers plan leave base, go up Rappanhannock and flank Lee nut JEB Stuart calvary intercepted and they fled to Wilderness, where met by Jackson. 1,600 C dead including Stonewall Jackson. |
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| Grants want to gain control of Miss. So he surrounded army and lived off the land waiting for Confed |
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| 1863 Lee wants to win on N soil, to let Vicksburg free, all arrived in Gettysburg. Meade stood up to C attacks while battle carried out to Cemetry Ridge. Gen George Picketts "Picketts charged' failed for Confeds, Lee retreated. 1/3 C dead |
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1863 U Gen William Rosecrans took Cattanooga then followed Gen Braxton Braggs to GA where they fought at Chickamuaa, yet C had number adv. B smased U right flank, but George H Thomas prevented defeat. Grant led them to captured Lookout Mountain and continue ob. |
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| May (5-6)1864 Grant lost more men but Lee's army had no replacements |
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| 1864 7,000 union men killed but Grant decided to keep on pursuing Lee |
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pursued Gen Johnsons arm in GA, Johnson replaced with Hood where the two battled in 1864 Atlanta. Sherman cut off city from goods and staked outside of it and George Thomas sent in to spy on them Battle of Franklin: Hood tried to break thru the army but never broke. Nashville battle ended C in Tenn Later S burned Atlanta, took Savannah and burned Columbia. |
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Lee out to escape where he was caught. April 9 1865 Lee met Grant in Wilmer McLeans home to surrender. |
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| What made this war a modern war |
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| use of guns, impersonal killings, 630000 dead, everyone effected |
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