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THE CIVIL WARChapter 15

Lincoln’s Election, Cabinet, and Early Tests

Balanced cabinet with different opinions! (Seward!)

Politics as Usual… Radical Republicans (Stevens) Peace Democrats/Copperheads Lincoln suspends liberties: martial law, writs

of habeas corpus Ex parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan Clemant Vallandingham?

How did each side FINANCE the war?

North: 3% tax on incomes over $800, direct tax on states, $140 million of loans, excise taxes on products and services, 1863 overhaul banking system. Borrowed $2.2 Billion! $431 million in “greenbacks” issued

End of war cost of living DOUBLED in North! South: Loans and bonds, inflated currency.

States’ rights philosophy HURT here, too. BLOCKADE hurt ability to raise money through tariffs. Only covered 2% of needs with taxation! Borrowed heavily. HOPING for help from BRITAIN.

Trent Affair: Causes and Effects?

November 1861: USS San Jacinto stops a British vessel, the Trent, on its way to negotiations with CSA in London (Mason and Slidell arrested!)

Lincoln’s response?

War Strategies and Major Campaigns

Fort Sumter: Causes and effects “Anaconda Plan:” Whose idea was it? How specifically did it work? First Battle of Bull Run Shiloh: Causes, effects, and leaders McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign and early attempts to take Richmond Antietam :Causes, effects, and leaders Emancipation Proclamation: what did it do? What did it NOT do? Why was it

also a MILITARY move? NYC Draft Riots: causes and effects African American Soldiers: How and why were they used in the war? Gettysburg: Causes, effects, and leaders Vicksburg: Causes, effects, and leaders Women in Wartime Medicine during wartime Prisoners of War: Spotlight on the Andersonville Prison Grant’s Wilderness Campaign: Causes, effects, and leaders Sherman’s March to the Sea: Causes, effects, and leaders Surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA and the RESULTS of the war for all

sides

McClellan Jokes! (He’s an easy target)

And another…

Keep it going….

Fort Henry and Ft. Donelson, Feb. 1862 Merrimac vs. Monitor, March 1862, VA Shiloh, Tennessee New Orleans, 1862, General Farragut Peninsular Campaign: March –July 1862,

Southern VA 2nd Battle of Bull Run (VA) August 1862 Emancipation Proclamation: Sept. 23,

1862 (went into effect on January 1, 1863)

Remaining Info!

Fredericksburg: Central VA, General Burnside Chancellorsville, General Hooker, Jackson is mistakenly

killed! Vicksburg: July 1863, Mississippi, all of Mississippi River in

UNION control Gettysburg; July 1863, Lee retreats Chattanooga, Nov. 1863 Grant promoted in March 1864, assault on Richmond Wilderness, Central VA, GRANT states, “I propose…” Petersburg, South of Richmond (VA), siege of Petersburg Atlanta to Savannah Sept-Dec 1864, Sherman destroys

Atlanta, marches to SEA Lee surrenders, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House,

VA, surrenders to GRANT

The Assassination of Lincoln, April 14, 1865

O Captain, My Captain –Walt Whitman