civil war

Civil War

secession – reasons for, arguments justifying

Lincoln’s reaction to secession

Confederate State of America – Jefferson Davis

CSA – for of government, weaknesses of

Crittenden Compromise

Fort Sumter

Election of 1864

Border States – importance of

North – advantages/disadvantages

South – advantages/disadvantages

Anaconda Plan

US-British relations

“Cotton Diplomacy”

The Trent Affair

impact of slavery on foreign relations

Emancipation Proclamation – reasons for, constitutional justification, effects of

Homestead Act

Morrill Tariff

National Bank Act

Greenbacks

financing the war – North & South

Lincoln and the suspension of habeas corpus

martial law

women in the war

African Americans in war

NYC draft riots

Confederate generals

Union generals

First Bull Run

Fort Donelson/Fort Henry

Shiloh

New Orleans

Monitor vs. Merrimac

Peninsular Campaign

Second Bull Run (Manassas)

Antietam

Fredericksburg

Chancellorsville

Vicksburg

Gettysburg, Pickett’s Charge

Sherman’s “March to the Sea”

Grant in Virginia, 1864-1865

Appomattox

Robert E. Lee

Stonewall Jackson

Ulysses S. Grant

George McClellan

William Tecumseh Herman

Charles Francis Adams

Andrew Johnson

Thaddeus Stevens

Hiram Revels

Mathew Brady

Clara Barton