Module 3 Civil War Pt 1 Military History and pt 2

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years of the civil war

1861-1865

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what was the free soil party made to combat

slavery

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what was the saying of the free soil party

“free soil,free speech, free labor,free men”

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during 1800 and 1860 how many slaves were brought to plantations 

800,000

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Underground Railroad 

  • Secret network of people who aided slaves running away to the north 

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Harriet Tubman -

a runaway slave ( known as a conductor ) made 19 trips and helped 300 slaves escape

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Compromise of 1850 

Admitted California as a free state

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 “popular sovereignty”

state can choose to have slavery or not

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  •  Fugitive Slave Law 

  • Allowed for a large fine for anybody to resist or refuse to assist in recapture of suspected runaways 

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Kansas - Nebraska Act 

  • Created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska

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  • John Brown

 , attacked and killed 5 proslavery men, tried to start slave rebellion 

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what was bleeding summer

  • Massachusetts senator charles sumner gave 2 day long long speech bashing those in the Senate that supported slavery 

  • He was particularly abusive towards South Carolina Senator Andre Butler 

  • The next day, Congressman Preston Brooks who was the nephew of South Carolina’s Andrew Butler, attackedSumner and beat him over the head until it broke 

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who founded the Republican party

Horace Gressley

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what 2 things did the Republican party oppose

slavery and the kansas nebraska Act

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what is the dred Scott case ?

  • Missouri slave that had lived free territory of Illinois for 7 years 

  • Master died and he wanted to be declared free  

  • he wasn’t Declared free 

  • MIssouri Compromise was formed

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Harpers Ferry 

  • unsuccessful Attempt to capture federal armory in  Virginia and distribute arms to slaves to start rebellion 

  • started by John Brown 

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what happened to Abe Lincoln in the election of 1860

Doesn't win a single electoral vote from the south

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who is the first state to secede from the union on December 20, 1860 

South Carolina 

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what did the confederacy believe about each state 

sovereign and independent 

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who was the president of the confederacy

Jefferson Davis

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what battle started the civil war

battle of fort Sumter

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what was the strategy of the North to win the civil war 

Anaconda Plan

  • Blockade southern ports 

  • Seize mississippi river and split confederacy in wto 

  • Capture confederate Richomnd , Virginia 

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what was the south’s plan to win the civil war

  • Defend itself 

  • Attack union if opportunity arises 


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what were the advantages of the Union Army

more Industrialized 

   -97% of firearm production was made in the north

- 70% the of railroads

-Possessed more natural resources (iron and coal)


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what were the advantages of the confederate army ?

Were fighting for their way of life

-Immense size of South made it difficult to take over

-Economy dependent on slaves allowed white population to be mobilized for war


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what was the Battle of Bull Run

  • Confederate army gains upper hand after being inspired by General Thomas J.Jackson (“Stonewall Jackson” )

  • South’s first victory of the war

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what was the date that the declaration of independence was adopted

July 4,1776

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Years of revolutionary war 

1775-1783

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Years of war of 1812 

1812-1815

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Years of mexican american war 

1846-1848

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Ulysses S.Grant 

  • Union general that was West Point Graduate 

  • Invaded western Tennessee and captured 2 strategic fort 2 strategic forts on important rivers 

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what does the Union Army learn at the Battle of Shiloh 

they need to dig trenches, send out scouts, and build fortifications 

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Great Locomotive Chase 

  • Union spies capture a southern train named the General 

  • They begin heading north to Chattanooga doing as much damage as they could to  the rail line 

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David  G. Farragut 

  • Union fleet commander (NAVY)

  • Captures New Orleans Confederacy's largest city and busiest port 

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what was a ironclad

  • New type of ship protected by iron or steel plates 

  • Could withstand cannon fire and resist burning 

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Name of the South’s Ironclad

Merrimack

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Name of the North’s ironclad

monitor duel

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  •  conscription 

  • Wealthy could pay for somebody to fight in their place if drafted

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what did the Confederates wear ? and what was their nickname 

  • ‘Johnny Reb” 

  • Soldiers wore grey or butternut (brown) uniforms 

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what did the Union Army  wear ? and what was their nickname 

  • “Billy Yank” 

  • Soldiers wore dark navy uniforms and light blue pants 

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what gun did the Confederates use ?

the Enfield rifle

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what gun did the Union Army use ?

Springfield rifle

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Who was the very careful commander of the U.S Army 

George McClellan 

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Robert E. Lee 

west point graduate

  • Had been offered to head the Union army but declined 

  • He chose to fight for his home state of Virginia  

  • served as confederate general 

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Antietam 

  • Robert E. Lee Clashes with McClean and results in bloodiest single day battle in American History 

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  • Emancipation Proclamation -

  • freed all slaves in Confederate States 

  • also authorized African Americans to enlist in Union Army 

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what was the reaction to the emancipation proclamation

  • north especially immigrants , didn’t approve out of fear of losing jobs to blacks 

  • Confederates viewed winning the war as the only way to keep their way of life 

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  • habeas corpus -

  • allowed people jailed without due process 

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Copperheads 

Northern democrats who wanted peace with south

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H.L Hunley 

  • First combat submarine to sink a warship 

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Chancellorsville 

  • Confederates biggest victory of the war 

  • Stonewall Jackson ( Confederate General) is mistakenly shot by own men and arm is amputated 

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what battle is Northern turning point of the war

Gettysburg

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Battle of vicksburg

  • Grant and Union surround Vicksburg, Mississippi one of last Southern holdouts to control Mississippi River 

  • Grant lays siege to the city 

  • Continue to shell city for hours each day 

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what caused riots during the Civil war

poor white workers ( especially Irish immigrants) became furious they had to fight due to free slaves that could then take their jobs

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William Tecumseh Sherman

commander of the Union military divison

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Gettysburg Address 

  • Lincoln's 2 minute speech dedicating a national cemetery to Gettysburg battlefield

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 total war 

not only target army and government but also civilians 

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Sherman’s march 

  • Marches to sea and destroyed everything along the way known as total war 

  • Goal was to destroy South’s ability to wage war and break the will of the civilians 

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what does Abe Lincoln do in the election of 1864 

  • drops Republican name and call party  the National Union Party and selects Andrfew Johnson, a Democrat to attract Democratic voters 

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where does the Confederate army surrender and what date ? 

On April 9, 1865, Appatomax courthouse 

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how many soldiers were killed in the civil war

620,000

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what happened to the North’s economy after the Civil War 

  • economy boomed 

  • Money made from war industry used to invest in new business 

  • Large - scale commercial agriculture used 

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what happened to the South’s economy after the Civil war ? 

  •  economy devastated 

  • Lost form of cheap labor (slavery) 

  • Industry and railroad destroyed during war 

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William H.Carney

first black person to be awarded the congressional medal of honor 

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How much did the South and North spend on the Civil War 

3.3 Billion 

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what is the 13th amendment 

  • outlawing slavery in United States of America 

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  •  Clara Barton 

  • returned to the U.S to found the AMerican Red Cross 

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who killed Abe Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

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what was the John Wilkes Booth assassination plan

assassinate the Lincoln,Vice - president Andrew Johnson, and the Sectary of State William Seward at the same time

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