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What were the causes of the civil war
1. Sectional disagreements in debates over tariffs, extension of slavery in the territories, and the nature of the union states rights, 2. Northern abolitionists versus southern defenders of slavery, 3. US Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case, 4. publication of uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 5. ineffective presidential leadership in the 1850s, 6. a series of fair compromise over the expansion of slavery in the territories, 7. President Lincoln's call for federal troops in 1861
Appomattox
Site of Lee's surrender to grant
Gettysburg
Turning point of Civil War
Fort Sumter
Opening confrontation of Civil War
What followed the Election of Lincoln (1860)
The secession of several southern states who feared that he would try to abolish slavery
Emancipation proclamation
Issued after the battle of Antietam
Major events in chronological order
Election of Lincoln, fort Sumter, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Appomattox
Abraham Lincoln
President of US during civil war, as I said the union beheld together, by force if necessary
Jefferson Davis
US senator who became president after the confederate states of America
Ulysses S. Grant
Union military commander, who won victories over the south after several other union commanders had failed
Robert E. Lee
Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia who urged southerners to except defeat and unite as Americans again, when some Southerners want to fight on after Appomattox
Frederick Douglass
Former enslaved African-American who became a prominent abolitionist and who urged Lincoln to recruit from her in slaved African-Americans to fight in the union army
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed the slaves located in rebelling states, made the abolition of slavery northern war game, discouraged any interference of foreign governments, allowed the enlistment of African-American soldiers to the union
Gettysburg
1. Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to preserve the nation was Dedicated to the Proposition that all men are created equal and that the rule by the government of the people by the people and for the people, 2. Lincoln believeD America was one nation not a collection of Southern states. Southerners believed that states have really join the union and Could freely leave.
What were Lincolns views and beliefs
1. Lincoln viewed that the US was one indivisible nation had prevailed. 2. Lincoln believed that secession was illegal, confederate gov in the southern states were illegitimate and the states had never really left the union. 3. He believed that reconstruction was a matter of quickly restoring legitimate southern state governments that were loyal to the union. 4. Lincoln also believe that we unify the nation, the federal government should not punish the south, but act with malice towards none, charity with all, to bind up the nations wounds
What did radical Republicans believe
Aggressively Guaranteeing voting another civil rights to African-Americans. They clash repeatedly with Lincoln successor as president, Andrew Johnson come over the issue of civil rights of our freed slaves eventually impeaching him but failing to remove him from office
13th amendment
Slavery abolished permanently in the US
14th Amendment
States prohibited from denying equal rights under the law
15th amendment
Voting rights guaranteed regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude
Compromise of 1876
This enabled former confederates who controlled the Democratic Party to regain power. It open the door to Jim Crowe laws and began a long period in which African-Americans in the south were denied the full race of American citizenship
Economic impact
Southern states were devastated by the war. Farms, railroads and factories have been destroyed throughout the south. money was worthless. Many towns and cities such as Richmond Atlanta lay in ruins, and the source of labor was changed due to the loss of life during the war and end of slavery. The south remained an agriculture based economy. The north and Midwest emerged with a strong and growing industrial economics, the completion of the transcontinental railroad soon after the war ended intensified westward movement of settlers into the states between Mississippi river and Pacific Ocean.
What did the emancipation proclamation allow
The enlistment of African-American soldiers
common soldiers
Warfare often involve hand to hand combat, war time diaries and letters home record this harsh reality, after the war especially in the south soldiers returned home to find destroyed homes and property while soldiers on both sides lived with permanent
Women
Managed homes and families with scarce resources, often based poverty and hunger, Assumed new rules and agriculture nursing and war industries
Urged radical Republicans not to be harsh with former confederates, elected president and serve during most of the week instruction, advocated rights for the Friedman, and a poster retribution directed at the south
Grant
Served as president of Washington college, urged Southerners to reconcile and re-join the US, and emphasize the importance of education to the nations future
Lee
Supported full equality for African-Americans, advocated for the passage of 14th and 15th amendment, encourage federal government actions to protect the rights of freedom in the south, served as an ambassador to Haiti in civil service
Douglass
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