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United States Civil War Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln – Republican Stephen Douglas – Democrats John Breckinridge – Southerners John Bell – Constitutional Union Party The Confederate States of America South Carolina declared on December 20, 1860 “the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other states…is hereby dissolved.” Other states secede By February, 1861 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas had withdrawn from the Union. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was chosen as President Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia was chosen as Vice President President Buchanan Stated that neither he nor Congress had the power to stop a state from seceding Did nothing as the secessionist states seized federal property to include military arsenals, post offices and the New Orleans Mint Lincoln as President Inaugural address – stated that he would not stop slavery where it existed, only prevent it from expanding The “Union of these States is perpetual” – federal property would continue to be controlled by the federal government Terms Legal Tender Act – passed by Congress in 1862 to create a national currency and allow the government to issue paper money Attrition – wearing down one side through exhaustion & lack of resources Terms 1. Greenbacks – paper money 2. Copperheads – Northerners who agreed with the Southern point of view; also known as Peace Democrats 3. Conscription – military draft 4. Habeas corpus – the right to be free unless charged with a crime and given a trial date 5. Attrition – wearing down the enemies resources and people 6. Anaconda Plan – General Winfield Scott’s strategy to defeat the South by blockading major ports and controlling the Mississippi 7. Bounty –money given to soldiers of North who promise 3 years of military service 8. Blockade Runner – small, fast vessels the South used to smuggle goods past the Union blockade 9. Emancipation Proclamation – a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863 10. Liberation – to be set free 11. Hardtack – a type of biscuit 12. Prisoners of war – soldiers captured during battle 13. Foraging – to search or steal 14. Siege – to cut off food and supplies and bombard a city until its defenders give up 15. Intercept – to get in between, prevent 16. Torpedo – underwater missle 17. Insatiable – unable to be satisfied 18. Mandate – a command 19. Trent Affair – a ship carrying two Confederate diplomats was intercepted by a Union warship- U.S. eventually freed the men 20. Peace Democrats – opposed the war and wanted to negotiate (not fight) to restore the Union People Robert E. Lee – general for the Confederacy Ulysses S. Grant – general for the Union Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson – C George McClellan – U William Sherman – U Matthew Brady - Photographer Women in Civil War Medicine – Clara Barton Scouts – Harriet Tubman Spying – Rose O’Neal Abolitionists – Harriet Beecher Stowe African Americans in the War Around 200,000 fought for the Union Frederick Douglass Prisons Andersonville, Georgia – Confederate POW camps: 20 POWs: 194,793 Died in prison: 30,218 Death Rate: 15.5% Elmira, New York – Union POW camps: 14 POWs: 214,865 Died in prison: 25,796 Death Rate: 12% Fort Sumter Charleston, SC – first battle as Lincoln tries to send supplies to rearm, Confederates attack and after 33 hours of fighting, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson surrenders the fort. Lincoln declares martial law in Maryland to ensure the capital is not surrounded by Confederate states. April 12, 1861 Confederate Victory 1st Battle of Bull Run Manassas, Virginia July 21, 1861 Confederate Victory Shiloh Shiloh, Virgina April 6 & 7, 1862 Union Victory Ulysses S. Grant New Orleans (Mississippi River) New Orleans, Mississippi April 24, 1862 Union victory Under Flag Officer Farragut’s leadership 4/25, the Confederacy’s largest and wealthiest city surrenders Seven Pines Virginia May 31, 1862 No victor Numerous casualties 2nd Battle of Bull Run Manassas, Virginia August 29-30, 1862 Confederate victory with General Robert E. Lee Antietam Sharpsburg, Maryland September 17, 1862 No victor (draw) The wars bloodiest day, Union casualties 12,410 Confederate Casualties 13,724 Fredericksburg Fredericksburg, Virginia December 11-13, 1862 Confederate victory General Lee defeats Union General Burnside’s larger army Pea Ridge Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas March 7-8, 1862 Union victory Chancellorsville Virginia May 1-5, 1863 Major Confederate victory and brilliant military strategy for General Lee Refer to map on p.383 Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 1-3, 1863 Union victory by General Meade over General Lee Refer to pg. 385 Turning point in war in the East Vicksburg Vicksburg, Mississippi July 4, 1863 Vicksburg surrenders after a long siege by General Grant of the Union forces Refer to pgs. 388-389 Victory divided Confederacy into two The Battle of the Wilderness & Spotsylvania Virginia May 5-19, 1864 Numerous battles between Union General Grant and Confederate General Lee Draw Cold Harbor Virginia June, 1864 Confederate victory Atlanta Peachtree Creek, Georgia July 20, 1864 Union Victory as General Sherman begins his March to the Sea Sherman’s March to the Sea 60,000 troops 50-60 miles wide 300 miles to Savanna, GA Sherman’s hairpins Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865 General Lee surrenders army to General Grant The Naval War Battle of the Ironsides Monitor - Union Merrimack - Confederate Torpedo, blockade & blockade runner Trent Affair (11/8/1861)– Union seizes two Confederate commissioners heading to England on the British ship Trent initiating diplomatic relations. 21. Reconstruction – the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War 22. Amnesty – a pardon 23. Freedman – a person freed from slavery 24. Black codes – laws written to limit rights of newly freed slaves 25. Civil Rights Act of 1866 26. Impeach – to charge an official of a crime 27. Pocket Veto- presidents ability to let a term expire without voting issue 13th – A bolish slavery 14th – Former slaves B ecome citizens 15th – Former slaves Can vote 1. Fort Sumter 2.Copperhead 5. Bull Run 6. Gettysburg 7. 10. Sharecropper 11. Tenant farmer 12. Seige 13.Attrition 14. Conscription 15. Reconstruction 16. Robert Lee 17. Ulysses Grant 18. Carpetbaggers 19. Scalawags 20. Pocket Veto 22. Amnesty 23. Forage 24. 9. 21. Impeach Greenback 3. Habeas corpus Vicksburg 4. Bounty 8. Blockade runner Graft 1. 13th Amendment 2. 14th Amendment 3. 15th Amendment 4. Battle of Bull Run 5. 54th Regiment Massachusetts 6. Freedman’s Bureau 7. Abraham Lincoln 8. Wade-Davis Bill 9. Anaconda Plan 10. Torpedo 11. Ironclads 12. Popular sovereingty 13. Blockade 14. Hayes 15. Antietam 16. Johnson 17. Chickamauga 18. Chancellorsville 19. Appomatox Courthouse 20. 21. March to Sea 22. Atlanta 23. Black Codes 24. Grant Greenback