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Chapter 16 SMO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina 1861 | in Union's hands, center of secessionist sentiment, Davis made union surrender it |
| Importance of Maryland | a slave state, if it secedes, Washington DC goes down |
| What did West Virginia do | seceded from VA because VA seceded from union |
| Union Strategy | 1. blockade South, 2. divide South by taking MS river, 3. take Richmond |
| First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction) | first real battle of Civil War, capture Richmond, union failed |
| Irving McDowell | went by land, failed, fired |
| Stonewall Jackson | forms like a stone wall and does not retreat until someone yells RETREAT |
| Britain is thinking of supporting south because | economic agreement, their textile, south's cotton, doesn't anyway |
| Lincoln's administration: suspended what | habeaus corpus |
| Lincoln's VP for first term, sec of state, sec of war | Hannibal Hamlin, William Seward, Edwin M. Stanton |
| Jay Cooke | sold war bonds |
| South financed its efforts with a tax-in-kind: | 10% tax against white males |
| South financed its efforts with bonds: | IOU from government, did it because it was patriotic yet risky |
| Morrill Tariff 1861 | raised tariffs 47% |
| Homestead Act 1862 | most profitable and longest legislation, 160 acres of land for 5 years |
| Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 | federal land for colleges about engineering, agriculture, and military science |
| Pacific Railway Act | union pacific railroad company with railroad from omaha to CA |
| Legal Tender Act | national currency called greenbacks not backed by specie |
| Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 | 10% tax on state bank notes so people will buy greenbacks |
| Cinco de Mayo | Mexico repelled French troops from entering |
| Archduke Maximilian and Benito Juarez | Max was France's emperior then Juarex shot him |
| Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days Battles | McClellan led Peninsula campaign to get Richmond but Lee counterattacked in 7 days battle and Lee won. |
| McClellan hired whom to spy on Lee | Pinkerton Detective agency, John pope |
| Second Battle of Bull Run (CSA won) | Lee beats Pope |
| Shiloh Church | Tennessee: Grant won vs. Johnston |
| Battle of Antietam | Maryland: McClellan beat Lee, single bloodiest day in history, lets Lee go |
| Fredericksburg | lopsided union loss because of General Burnside against Lee |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | Hooker fought Lee and Stonwall, union lost |
| New Orleans | Union admiral David Farragut got New Orleans |
| Trent incident | British ship with confederate diplomats: Mason and Slidell on it, they are captured, British is angry and Lincoln is forced to release |
| Monitor and Merrimack | ironclad ships, 20th century way of fighting |
| Benjamin Butler and contrabands | slaves were contrabands of war |
| Emancipation Proclamation | any state in rebellion will have their slaves freed, but union states will get to keep slaves |
| 13th amendment | slavery abolished |
| 54th Massachusetts | black soldiers refused their pay and used shame until their wage was equal |
| Sanitary Commission | med supplies to army, Mother Bickerdyke |
| Clara Barton | used congressional contacts to force army medical practice |
| Walt Whitman | volunteer nurse and poet |
| Clement Vallandigham and Copperheads | wanted to end war, suspected of aiding South |
| Radical republicans | pushed for emancipation of slaves |
| Draft Riots | people had to enroll in the war or could pay 300 dollars not to |
| Gettysburg | Lee went to PA and Pickett to union center. Meade lets Lee go back to VA. bloodiest battle in civil war |
| Battle of Vicksburg | walled city, Grant captured this |
| Fall of Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea | Sherman went to capture Atlanta and destroyed everything |
| 40 acres and a mule / Special Field Order 15 | that to blacks |
| Election of 1864 |
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