Civil War
Causes
Leaders
Strengths
Inaugural Address
Fort Sumter – April 12, 1861
Border states – Kentucky, Missouri,
Maryland, Delaware, (West Virginia)
Britain
France
Confederate government
Draft
Confederacy 1862
Union 1863
NYC race riots-July 1863
Homestead Act of 1862
Women in the war
Clara Barton
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
General McClellan
Antietam - Sept. 17, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation (Sept 23)
January 1, 1863
Impact?
Blacks in the war
54th Massachusetts
Ft Wagner, SC
Gettysburg – July 1-3, 1863
Gettysburg Address Nov 19, 1863
War at sea
Blockade
Monitor (N) vs. Merrimack (S)
March 9, 1862
Vicksburg – July 4, 1863
Ulysses S. Grant
William Sherman
Atlanta – Sept 2, 1864
March to the Sea
Election of 1864
Republicans – Union Party
Abraham Lincoln
VP - Andrew Johnson - TN
Northern Democrats
war and peace sections
George McClellan
Copperheads – southern sympathizers
212-12
Appomattox Courthouse – April 9, 1865
Lee to Grant
Lincoln’s Assassination – April 14, 1865
Ford’s Theatre
John Wilkes Booth
Effects of the war
Lincoln
500,000 dead
South destroyed
States rights?
Industry booms
4 million slaves free
Reconstruction
Condition of the South
Freedom
13th amendment – 1865
Ku Klux Klan 1866
Freedmen’s Bureau
Sharecroppers (crop-lien system)
Black codes
Andrew Johnson
29 vetoes – 15 overidden
Radical Republicans
Senator Charles Sumner – Mass
Representative Thaddeus Stevens - Penn
14th amendment - 1868
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Congressional Reconstruction
15th amendment – 1870
Sen. Hiram Rhodes Revels from Mississippi
Sen. Blanche Bruce from Mississippi
Rep.Joseph RaineyfromSouth Carolina
Scalawags
Carpet Baggers
Tenure of Office Act of 1867
Impeachment
Alaska – 1867
William Seward
Election of 1868
Republican – U.S. Grant 214
“Wave the bloody shirt”
Democrats – Horatio Seymour 80
Scandal and corruption
William “Boss” Tweed
Thomas Nast
Credit Mobilier 1872
Whiskey Ring 1875
Election of 1872
Rep. Grant 286
Democrats – Horace Greeley 66
Panic of 1873
Election of 1876
Rep. Rutherford B. Hayes 184
Dem. Samuel Tilden 165
LA, SC, FL
Problem
Compromise of 1877
“waning resolve of the North”
Redeemers
Voting barriers
Literacy test, poll tax, intimidation, grandfather clause
Solid South
Exodusters - 1879
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896