Term
The problem with the South ______ getting Southern states to send troops to help other states was always difficult to do.
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in THIS STATE, the governor was a belligerent state's righter and kept wanting to secede |
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Definition
The problem with the South was that it gave states the ability to
secede in the future, and getting Southern states to send troops to
help other states was always difficult to do.
--
GA |
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Term
| What did Jefferson Davis do to help Confederate national strength? |
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Definition
Not much (according to Bailey)
Jefferson Davis was never really popular and he overworked himself. |
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Term
____ also installed a puppet government in _____, putting in ____n as emperor of ____.
Why/how did it fall apart?
--
What did this violate? |
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Definition
Napoleon III of France also installed a puppet government in Mexico
City, putting in the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico,
but after the war, the U.S. (big help = Wm Seward) threatened violence, and Napoleon left
Maximilian to doom at the hands of a Mexican firing squad.
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Violated Monroe Doctrine |
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Term
-Abe Lincoln did make some tyrannical acts during his term as
president, such as .... (6)
-but he justified his actions by saying that |
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Definition
-illegally proclaiming a blockade,
-arbitrarily increased the size of the fed army without Congressional consent, and
-sending in troops to the Border
States
-the advancement of $2 million to three private citizens for war purposes,
-the suspension of habeas corpus so
that anti-Unionists could be arrested without a formal charge,
-and the intimidation of voters in the Border States.
-such acts weren’t permanent, and that he had to do those things in order to
preserve the Union. |
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Term
The Confederate states’ ___ led to the handicapping of the South, and perhaps
to its ultimate downfall. |
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Definition
The Confederate states’ refusal to sacrifice some
states’ rights led to the handicapping of the South, and perhaps
to its ultimate downfall. |
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Term
At first, there were numerous volunteers, but after the initial
enthusiasm slacked off, Congress _____ |
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Definition
At first, there were numerous volunteers, but after the initial
enthusiasm slacked off, Congress passed its first conscription law ever
(the draft) |
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Term
| As a result of poor citizens' reactions to the drafts, many riots broke out, such as one in ____ |
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Definition
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Term
| Volunteers manned more than 90% of the Union army...what impact did this have when people were paid? |
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Definition
| would be able to collect $1,000 later, and "bounty brokers"/"substitute brokers" sprang up |
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Term
| The North passed the ____ Act, increasing tariff rates by about _% to _%, but war soon drove those rates even higher. |
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Definition
| The North passed the Morrill Tariff Act, increasing tariff rates by about 5% to 10%, (up to Walker Tariff of 1846) but war soon drove those rates even higher. |
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Term
| The ____ also issued ___ money called "___," but __________ |
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Definition
The Washington Treasury also issued paper money called "greenbacks," but this money was very unstable and sank to as
low as 39 cents per gold dollar. |
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Term
| The _______ was a landmark of the war, created to establish a standard bank-note currency, and banks that joined the (same term) could DO WHAT |
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Definition
The National Banking System was a landmark of the war, created to
establish a standard bank-note currency, (later flooded w/ "rag money) and banks that joined the
National Banking System could buy government bonds and issue sound
paper money. |
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Term
| The National Banking Act was the first step toward ____. |
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Definition
The National Banking Act was the first step toward a unified
national banking network since 1836, when the Bank of the United States
was killed by Andrew Jackson. |
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Term
The ___ actually emerged from the Civil War more prosperous than
before, since ____ |
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Definition
-The North actually emerged from the Civil War more prosperous than
before, since
-new factories had been formed and
-a millionaire class was
born for the first time in history. |
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Term
| Many ___ suppliers used shoddy equipment in their supplies, such as (shoes thing), (horses thing), and (wool thing) |
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Definition
| However, many Union suppliers used shoddy equipment in their supplies, such as using cardboard as the soles of shoes, giving blind/aged horses, and shoddy/reprocessed wool for soldiers. |
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Term
| In 1859, ____ sent people to Pennsylvania. |
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Definition
| In 1859, a discovery of petroleum oil sent people to Pennsylvania. |
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Term
| Women gained new advances in the war by... |
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Definition
Women gained new advances in the war, taking the jobs left behind
by men going off to battle, and other women posed as men and became
soldiers with their husbands. |
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Term
| ____ and ____ helped transform nursing from a lowly service to a respected profession, and in the South. |
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Definition
Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix helped transform nursing from a lowly
service to a respected profession, and in the South. |
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Term
In the South, ____ ran
a Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers and was awarded
____ by Jefferson Davis. |
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Definition
In the South, Sally Tompkins ran
a Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers and was awarded
the rank of Captain by Jefferson Davis. |
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Term
| "American rancor was also directed at Canada, where despite the vigilance of British authorities, ____." |
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Definition
| Southern agents plotted to burn Northern cities. |
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Term
"Hatred of England burned especially fiercely among WHO, and they did WHAT?
--
Why couldn't Congress control it? |
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Definition
Irish Americans...raised several tiny "armies" of a few hundred green-shirted men and launched invasions of Canada, notably in 1866 and 1870
--
Too many Irish American voters |
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Term
| Why, in 1867, did the British form the Dominion of Canada? |
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Definition
| bolster Canadians politically and spiritually against the possible vengeance of the U.S. |
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Term
| v/f: At times, the Richmond government had trouble persuading certain troops to serve outside their own borders |
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Definition
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Term
| the sec. of war's name is Edwin ___ |
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Definition
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Term
NAME THAT MAN
Charles Francis Adams |
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Definition
Define: American minister who prodded the British into realizing that allowing Confederate raiders to be built was a dangerous precedent that might someday be used against them
-still, 250 ships were captured when they violated the leaky laws to build more |
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Term
| During the war, excise taxes on ___ and ____ were substantially increased by Congress |
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Definition
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Term
| Who robbed both cradles and graves? |
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Definition
| The Confederate army...smaller population meant that they needed any type of manpower more quickly |
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Term
| Who sold bonds for the government for commission of 3/8 of 1%? |
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Definition
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Term
How did the Confederate gov't fund the war?
--
-What did this money cause? |
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Definition
"Confederate bonds were sold at home and abroad. The Richmond regime also imposed a 10% levy on farm produce."
--
-Runaway inflation
-$1 bil |
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Term
| Why were clothing sizes invented? |
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Definition
| Marriage of military need and innovative machinery |
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Term
| With 250,000 mechanical reapers in existence, they proved to be more potent than guns since... |
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Definition
| Produced vast surpluses of grain that helped dethrone King Cotton |
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Term
"pioneers continued to push westward during the war, altogether an estimated 300,000 people."
Causes for pioneers? |
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Definition
-causes:
-gold rush
-free land (homestead)
-draft |
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Term
| "____ drew countless women into industrial employment." |
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Definition
| "The booming military demand for shoes and clothing, combined w/ technological marvels like the sewing machine drew countless women into industrial employment." |
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Term
____ helped organize the ____ to assist the Union army in the field
What did this do for its leaders? |
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Definition
| Elizabeth Blackwell - America's first female physician; U.S. Sanitary Commission; helped many women to acquire the orginizational skills and self-confidence that would propel the women's movement forward after the war. |
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Term
| What was Lincoln's view on secession? |
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Definition
-there would be no conflict unless the south provoked it
-wholly impractical (true geographically...Appalachian/MI river) |
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Term
| Why did the European nations want the U.S. to split? |
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Definition
| -easier to take land in N/S America (British esp.) |
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Term
How many forts remained that belonged to the Union? (Name one)
Why didn't Lincoln like his forts? |
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Definition
-Fort Sumter...other=Moultrie
(Charleston harbor)
-Sumter had too little provisions (last only a few weeks)...would have to surrender
-sending reinforcements would cause backlash from SCers mad about their harbor being blocked |
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Term
| What was Lincoln's compromise regarding where to send troops? (Ft Sumter) |
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Definition
| -notified South Carolinians that an expedition would be sent to PROVISION the garrison, not to reinforce it. |
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Term
| What happened w/ Lincoln's compromise regarding where to send troops made into a battle? (Ft Sumter) |
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Definition
| cannons fired on the U.S., taking it as an act of aggression |
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Term
| What caused the next four states to secede? What were they? |
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Definition
| Lincoln's ordering of 75,000 militiamen; Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina |
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Term
| What were the border states? |
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Definition
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Term
| Why were MO, KY, and MY such valuable states? |
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Definition
-double manufacturing capacity of the South
-increase horse supply
-Ohio River (KY/W. VA) |
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Term
| How did Lincoln deal w/ the border states? |
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Definition
-declared martial law where needed
-sent in troops (MY)
-sent troops into MO, West VA |
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Term
Why did Lincoln make this declaration:
"If I could save the Union w/o freeing any slave, would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." |
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Definition
| didn't want to drive border states/butternut region away |
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Term
| Where/what is the "butternut" region? Why was it so? |
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Definition
-Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
-place where people didn't want to have an antislavery war
-had been largely settled by Southerners |
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Term
Who did the 5 civilized tribes side w/? why?
What did that side do to secure it? |
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Definition
-south
-owned slaves themselves
-Confederate gov't agreed to take over federal payments to the tribes, and invited the Native Americans to send delegates to the Confederate congress (NAs sent troops in return) |
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Term
What NAs sided w/ the North?
What happened to them after the war? |
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Definition
-rival faction, most of the Plains Indians
-herded onto reservations |
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Term
| What names were given to the "brothers" who were at war in the Civil War? |
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Definition
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Term
| When the war broke out, the South seemed to have great advantages. What were they? |
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Definition
-morale
-bred to fight
-North had to conquer vast Confederacy and drag it back to the Union
-South only needed to fight to a draw |
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Term
| Who did Lincoln unofficially offer command of the Northern army to? |
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Definition
| Robert E. Lee...until he joined the Confederacy |
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Term
Economically, the South seemed to be handicapped by _____.
How did they get around this? |
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Definition
-the scarcity of factories
-Seizing federal weapons, running Union blockades, and developing their own ironworks |
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Term
| Who is the youngest general in the Union army? What became of him? |
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Definition
-George Armstrong Custer
-perished @ Little Bighorn in 1876 |
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Term
| Why were supplies hard to transport to the Confederate army? |
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Definition
| caused by a breakdown of the South's rickety transportation system, especially where the railroad tracks were cut or destroyed by the Yankee invaders |
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Term
Who had the better navy - North or South?
What did this cause? |
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Definition
-North - "established a blockade that, though a sieve at first, soon choked off Southern supplies and eventually shattered Southern morale."
-"enabled North to exchange huge quantities of grain for munitions and supplies from Europe." |
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Term
| Most civil war soldiers had been ___. |
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Definition
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Term
| V/F: Most troops were native-born, but immigrants did serve in rough proportion to their presence in the general population. |
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Definition
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Term
| "Though enemies, Union and Confederate soldiers shared a common commitment to the patriotic '__' and the cause of of liberty, independence, and republican government" |
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Definition
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Term
| Why could being a Civil War soldier be really boring/unpleasant? |
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Definition
-men spent fifty days in camp for every one in battle
-reveille, roll call, and drill were daily chores
-had a lot of hunger
-...led to a lot of religious ritual breaking |
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Term
| Why was the North less fortunate militarily? |
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Definition
HINT: LEADERS
-Lincoln was forced to use a costly trial-and-error method to sort out effective leaders |
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Term
| Why did King Cotton fail the South? |
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Definition
-He had been so lavishly productive ... enormous exports of cotton had piled up surpluses in British warehouses
-when the real pinch came, "wage slaves" did not want to help slaveowners |
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Term
| While the South had King Cotton, the North had King ____ |
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Definition
| Wheat and Corn...needed McCormick's mower-reaper |
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Term
| "The direst effects of 'cotton famine' in Britain were relieved by..." |
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Definition
-as Union armies penetrated the South, they captured or bought considerable supplies them to Britain
-the Confederates also ran a limited quantity through the blockade
-Cotton growers of Egypt and India, responding to high prices, increased their output
Finally, booming war industries in England, which supplied both the North and the South, relieved unemployment |
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Term
| V/F: during the war, Britain was shipping grain to the North, because it had the cheapest and most abundant supply |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
-1861
-A Union warship cruising on the high seas
-north of Cuba stopped a small steamer,
-the Trent and
-forcibly removed two Confederate diplomats for Europe |
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Term
| Describe the British reaction to the Trent affair |
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Definition
-war preparations buzzed
-London Foreign Office prepared an ultimatum demanding surrender of the prisoners and an apology
-slow communications let passions cool on both sides |
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Term
| Describe the conflict over the Alabama |
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Definition
-Name of noteworthy unneutral building in Britain of Confederate commerce-raiders
-Were not warships w/in the meaning of loopholed British law because they left their shipyards unarmed and picked up their guns elsewhere
-The Alabama escaped to the Portuguese Azores, and there took on weapons and a crew from two British ships that followed it
-Captured 60 vessels
-captured support from Northern navy
-destroyed by stronger Union cruiser off the coast of France |
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Term
NAME THAT MAN
Charles Francis Adams |
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Definition
American minister who prodded the British into realizing that allowing Confederate raiders to be built was a dangerous precedent that might someday be used against them
-still, 250 ships were captured when they violated the leaky laws to build more |
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Term
|
Definition
-two Confederate warships
-being constructed in the shipyard of John Laird and Sons in Great Britain
-Designed to destroy the wooden ships of the Union navy with their iron rams and large-caliber guns
-far more dangerous than the Alabama
-placed in Royal Navy to avoid conflict w/ North |
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Term
| What is Bull Run's other name? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was a Union victory at Bull Run supposed to signify? |
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Definition
| superiority for Union arms, maybe take Richmond and discredit the rebellion? (Easier reconstruction) |
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Term
| How did Stonewall Jackson get his name? |
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Definition
| his soldiers stood their ground like stones at Bull Run |
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Term
| Define: "military picnic" |
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Definition
-people went to spectate at Bull Run
-Yanks were doing pretty well until Stonewall got them
-not decisive militarily, but had psychological and political effects |
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Term
| How did victory @ Bull Run have an adverse effect on the south? |
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Definition
-became overconfident
-South thought war was over and went home
-enlistments dropped sharply |
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Term
| How did defeat @ Bull Run have a positive effect on the north? |
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Definition
-caused Northerners to buckle down to the staggering task at hand
-"It [The Northern defeat at Bull Run] set the stage for a war that would be waged not merely for the cause of Union but also, eventually, for the abolitionist cause of emancipation" |
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Term
| ___ was given command of the Army of the Potomac |
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Definition
|
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Term
|
Definition
-superb organizer and drillmaster
-injected splendid morale into the Army of the Potomac
-didn't like sacrificing troops, so they loved him |
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Term
|
Definition
-perfectionist who seemed not to have realized that an army is never ready to the last button
-and that wars cannot be won w/o running some risks
-erroneous reports from Pinkerton |
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Term
| Define: the Peninsula Campaign (up to 7 days) |
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Definition
-McClellan wouldn't move his troops
-Lincoln threatened to "borrow" them
-McClellan decided to go to Richmond (which lies at the western base of a narrow peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers)
-came w/ 100,000 men
-took a month to capture Yorktown
-@ Richmond, Lincoln diverted reinforcements to capture Stonewall Jackson
-McClellan was stalled in front of Richmond, and "Jeb" Stuart's Confederate cavalry rode completely around his army on reconnaissance
-then came seven days battles |
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Term
| Define: the Peninsula Campaign (beginning from 7 days) |
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Definition
-Robert E. Lee launched counterattack (the Seven Days' Battles)
-Drove McClellan back to sea (abandoned campaign)
-10,000 Union casualties to Confed. 20,000
-Lincoln temporarily abandoned McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac |
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Term
| What did the Confederate victory @ the Seven Battles do? |
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Definition
-made it so that slavery would be unaffected
-drove war more towards slavery cause
-Lincoln began to draft Emancipation Proclamation |
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Term
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Definition
-Northern plan
-suffocate South by blockading its coasts
-liberate slaves and hence undermine the very economic foundations of the Old South
-cut the Confederacy in half by seizing control of the MI river
-chop the Confederacy to pieces by sending troops through GA and the Carolinas
-decapitate it by capturing its capital at Richmond
-(esp. Grant's idea) try everywhere to engage the enemy's main strength and to grind it into submission |
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Term
| Describe the execution of the blockade (anaconda plan) (6) |
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Definition
-not clamped down all at once but extended by degrees
-stretched along 535 mi of coast
-hard to keep strict for improvised navy
-simplified by focusing on principal ports and inlets where cotton would have been loaded
-Would have normally been defied by other countries, but Britain recognized it as binding to avoid war
-would enforce sometimes by seizing British freighters |
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Term
| "The most successful blockade runners were swift, gray-painted ___, scored of which were built in ____." |
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Definition
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Term
"A leading rendezvous [of blockade runners] was [in] the West Indies port of __, where at one time # people rode at anchor.
What did it take/come back with? |
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Definition
| Nassau, in the British Bahamas; 35; fraudulent papers for "Halifax" (Canada); a cargo of cotton |
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Term
| the Union navy also seized British freighters on the high seas, citing WHAT? |
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Definition
the Union navy also
seized British freighters on the high seas, citing “ultimate
destination” (to the South) as their reasons; the British
relented, since they might have to do the same thing in later wars (as
they did in World War I). |
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Term
| Describe the Merrimack-VA conflict |
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Definition
| The South also created a major new naval weapon—the ironclad—when ingenious Confederate shipbuilders refitted the old warship USS Merrimack with a steam engine and iron plates to make it impervious to bullets and cannonballs. The ship, renamed the Virginia, easily destroyed several Union ships and broke through the blockade. In response, the Union built an ironclad of its own, the USS Monitor , that featured an innovative gun turret. The two ships met in March 1862 at the Battle of the Ironclads, which ended in a draw. |
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Term
| Who commanded on each side at the Second Battle of Bull Run? |
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Definition
| Robert E Lee (south), General John Pope. |
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Term
"Emboldened by his success at the 2nd BOBR, Lee daringly thrust into ___"
Why? |
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Definition
-MY
-defeat could encourage foreign intervention, seduce Border State and sisters |
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Term
| What really happened when Lee made an attack in MY? |
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Definition
| -MYers were turned off by blanketless/shoeless/hatless soldiers |
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Term
DEFINE:
Battle of Antietam Creek |
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Definition
9/17/1862: Antietam (Antietam Creek, Maryland)
N: McClellan
S: Lee (hoped to lure border states and foreign intervention)
Why did it fail (S)? For one thing, the Marylanders were unimpressed by the ragged soldiers (supplies were low at this time). More importantly, two Union soldiers found Lee’s plans as cigar wrapping. HOWEVER, it was more or less a draw militarily.
Who won? More good stuff happened for the N, but it was more or less a draw militarily.
Casualties: 12,000 N, 10,000 S
Significance: One of the bloodiest days of the war (that’s saying something!!!) and McClellan was canned for not pursuing Lee. Lincoln started drafting the Emancipation Proclamation. Most important – this prevented foreign intervention from Britain/Canada to the South. |
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Term
DEFINE:
Battle of Antietam Creek effects (south) |
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Definition
-Jefferson Davis was never so close to victory as he was that day,
since European powers were very close to helping the South, but after
the Union army displayed unexpected power at Antietam, that help faded |
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Term
DEFINE:
Battle of Antietam Creek effects (north) |
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Definition
-McClellan fired for 2nd time for not pursuing Lee
-display of power that Lincoln needed to announce his Emancipation Proclamation (doing so after all of the losses would look like they were calling upon slaves to murder their masters since the North couldn't),
-which didn’t actually
free the slaves, but gave the general idea. |
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Term
| DEFINE: Emancipation Proclamation |
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Definition
-it was announced on January 1, 1863 Lincoln said the slaves would be free in the seceded states
-(but NOT the border states as doing so might anger them into seceding
too)
-made war into a moral crusade, fight to finish |
|
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Term
| When was the 13th amendment ratified? |
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Definition
| 1865 (8 mo. after the Civil War) |
|
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Term
| What former president believed that emancipation should not be "inflicted" on slaves? |
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Definition
|
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Term
| V/F: The South did not recognize the slaves as POWs until 1864. |
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Definition
|
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Term
| Several black soldiers were massacred after they had surrendered at ____. |
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Definition
|
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Term
| "Fear of slave insurrection necessitated Confederate ___" |
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Definition
|
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Term
| Define: intelligent contraband |
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Definition
| -slaves who volunteered as spies/scouts/guides |
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Term
After Antietam, ____ took over
the Union army, but ____ |
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Definition
After Antietam, A. E. Burnside took over the Union army, but he lost badly after launching a rash frontal attack
at
Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Dec. 13, 1862. |
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Term
Lee now prepared to invade the North for the second and final time,
at ____, but he was met by new ___, who by accident____ and the Union and Confederate armies fought a bloody and brutal battle in which the ___ “won.” |
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Definition
Lee now prepared to invade the North for the second and final time,
at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but he was met by new General George G.
Meade, who by accident took a stand atop a low ridge flanking a shallow
valley and the Union and Confederate armies fought a bloody and brutal
battle in which the North “won.” |
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Term
In the Battle of Gettysburg, General George
___ led a hopeless, bloody, and pitiful charge across a field that
ended in the pig-slaughter of Confederates. |
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Definition
In the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), General George
Pickett led a hopeless, bloody, and pitiful charge across a field that
ended in the pig-slaughter of Confederates. |
|
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Term
| Describe Lee's strategy @ Chancellorsville |
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Definition
-divided his numerically inferior force
-sent Stonewall Jackson to attack Union flank
--->Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own men in this battle |
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Term
| Who led the Confederate charge at Gettysburg? |
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Definition
|
|
Term
| What was the "high tide of the Confederacy"? Why? |
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Definition
-Pickett's charge @ Gettysburg
-Northernmost point reached by any sig. Southern force, last chance for Confeds to win the war. |
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Term
"As the Battle of Gettysburg raged, there was a peace delegation moving near..."
What was J. Davis's hope?
What actually happened? |
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Definition
Norkfolk, VA
-that Washington negotiators would come just as the triumphant troops of Lee did
-Lincoln refused to allow the peace mission pass through Union lines (He had the vistory) |
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Term
Where was Grant's first victory?
What were the terms there? |
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Definition
-Fort Donelson on Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers
-"an unconditional and immediate surrender" |
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Term
-"Grant attempted to exploit his victory [at TN] by __."
-BUT... |
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Definition
attempting to capture the junction of the main Confed. north-south and east-west railroads in the MI Valley at Corinth, MI.
-BUT a Confed. force foiled this @ Shiloh.
-"Grant made a successful counterattack, but the impressive Confed. showing @ Shiloh confirmed that there would be no quick end to the war in the West." |
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Term
NAME THAT MAN
David G. Farragut |
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Definition
-joined w/ N army to seize New Orleans
-came w/ gunboats
-left huge jeopardizing back door.
-between Vicksburg/MI/Port Hudson
-srsly cut off supplies |
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Term
Who was in command of the N troops @ Vicksburg?
What port fell immediately after? |
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Definition
|
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Term
| V/F: The Union victory @ Vicksburg came a week before their victory @ Gettysburg |
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Definition
|
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Term
| What did the Gettysburg/Vicksburg victories do for foreign affairs? |
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Definition
-Britain stopped delivery of the Laird rams to Confeds
-France killed a deal for the sale of 6 naval vessels to the Richmond gov't. |
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Term
| What did the Gettysburg/Vicksburg victories do for domestic affairs? |
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Definition
| helped mollify border states w/ MI river, less economic troubles to people already uneasy abt "aboliton war." |
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Term
| After his Vicksburg/TN victories, Grant had to go to the city of ___, where Confeds had driven Union soldiers from ____. |
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Definition
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| Name two battles that occurred in the vicinity of Chattanooga |
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-Battle of Missionary Ridge
-" " Lookout Mtn |
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| What did victories at Chattanooga do? |
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| Cleared TN of Confeds, got to invade GA |
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Who led the N conquest of GA?
What became of him? |
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-General William Tecumseh Sherman
-After he burned Atlanta, he left the country, then came back @ Savannah |
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| Sherman's major purpose @ Atlanta was... |
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| destroy milt. supplies destined for the Confed. army and to weaken the morale of the men at the front by waging war on their homes. |
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| "Success in 'Shermanizing' the South was attested by ______." |
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| increasing numbers of Confed. desertions |
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| Where did the Union attack after GA? |
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| What abolitionist group troubled Lincoln most in the election of 1864? |
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Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
-dominated by "radical" Republicans who resented Lincoln's civil rights abuses, pressed emancipation |
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| What was the fate of the Democrats during the war of 1864? (Why was it really sucky?) |
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-Association w/ Southern seceding Dems
-Stephen A. Douglas died 7 weeks after the war began
-Split into "War/Peace Democrats" (Peace AKA Copperheads)
War supported administration, Peace didn't, Copperheads on another card |
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AKA Peace Dems
-Named after randomly attacking snake
-Copperheads obstructed war by attacks against the draft and emancipation
-denounced Lincoln as "Illinois Ape"
-condemned the BOOK SAID THIS NOT ME "N----- War" |
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NAME THAT MAN
Clement L. Vallandigham (know 7 bullets) |
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-Ohio Copperhead
-troublemaking but very good orator
-convicted by military tribunal for "treasonable utterances" and sentenced to prison and banished to Confed. lines
-Worked way to Canada
-ran for governorship of Ohio
-inspired Everett Hale's "The Man w/o a Country." (Story of Philip Nolan)
-helped devotion in the Union |
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| Who was Lincoln's running mate in 1864? Elaborate |
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| Andrew Johnson...loyal War Dem from TN...small slaveowner @ start of war...placed to attract War Dems |
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-Who did Copperheads nominate in the election of 1864
-What did they try as their platform? |
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-McClellan
-the Civil war=failure |
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| Why was Lincoln's election "gravely in doubt"? |
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-war was going badly
-Lincoln was being a little despotic, esp. since he thought he'd lose |
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Who uttered the following quote:
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead." |
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| Who captured Mobile, AL for the Union? |
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| Who captured Atlanta for the Union? |
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| Who captured Shenendoah Valley for the Union? |
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How did Lincoln use the military to win?
What was this called? |
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-furloughed a bunch home (one cast 49 ballots!)
-"bayonet vote" |
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What states did Lincoln lose in the election of 1864?
How much of the popular vote went to McClellan? |
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| V/F: Lincoln's victory (in the election) caused a lot of desertions in the South |
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| What was Grant's strategy after Gettysburg? (Richmond) |
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-assail the enemy's armies simultaneously, so they could not assist one another
-not care about his own casualties |
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| "In a ghastly gamble on June 3, 1864, Grant ordered a WHAT KIND OF ATTACK in WHAT PLACE. In a few minutes, HOW MANY CASUALTIES WERE THERE? |
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-frontal assault
-Cold Harbor
-7,000 |
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| "It was ___ who turned the eastern campaign into a war of attrition" |
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| Why didn't peace between the N/S work out? |
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| Lincoln wanted Union/emancipation, Davis wanted independence |
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| When N troops captured Richmond, they cornered Lee @ __ |
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| Appotomattox Ct-house in VA |
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| When did the Confeds surrender? |
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| What happened on Good Friday of 1865? |
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| pro-southern actor John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater |
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| V/F: people say that Lincoln's assassination cemented his good reputation based on the time it occurred |
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| Why was the North embittered at the South for Lincoln's assassination? |
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| rumor that it was J. Davis's fault |
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| How did the (overall) Union victory affect Britain? |
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| helped English Reform Bill of 1867 pass (made England a true democracy) |
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| What did the CSA's government resemble (compared to a U.S. gov't) |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| What did the Gettysburg Address talk about? |
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| Lincoln argued that the Civil War was a test not only for the Union but for the entire world, for it would determine whether a nation conceived in democracy could “long endure.” |
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