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| 1860 Presidential Election |
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| set the stage for the US civil war, Republican Abe Lincoln wins shattering the Democratic strong hold, shortly after election south began to secede. |
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| South Carolina Exposition |
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| States have the right to make their own laws |
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| Critic of Lincoln's passiveness to slavery-Lincoln's reply was that slavery was not his purpose, all he wanted was to preserve the Union. |
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| Lincoln's VP who was impeached. He was a democrat who believed in the common man's rule. He was a power hungry alcoholic who hated Southern plantation rulers because he had come from a poor family and the plantation owners were rich. Wants to do reconstruction on his own without sharing with Congress. Creates Restoration in 1865. Congress is furious and makes new laws to get him impeached. |
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| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| Confederate General in Civil War, most well known after Lee, known for his success at Chancellorsville and the battles of Bull Run. |
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| Union General named first in command of the Union army three years after the Civil War had begun. He was the closest to matching Confederate General Robert E. Lee in leadership and strategics. |
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| Lincoln's First Inaugural Address |
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| States that he is not going to touch the issue of slavery, and states that secession is illegal. |
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| Changed the focus of the war from that of the Union to that of freeing the slaves. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Not all slaves were freed, only the Southern Slaves that the Union had not yet reached. |
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| States that were not slave nor free. |
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Civil War historian Shelby Foote remarked that Smith "accomplished in Kentucky the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war."
Northern Victory. |
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| Mexican American War General that went in through the sea |
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| Northern victory that cut the South in half by cutting off communication and transportation. |
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| South's final advance, bloodiest battle |
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| Sherman's March to the Sea |
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| Destroyed communication and crops, used scorched earth policy, extremely successful, led to the end of the war. |
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| Truce that ended the Civil War |
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| Shelby Foote's authentic geniuses |
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| Thought that blacks should be educated and that the top ten percent should represent the population. |
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| believed that blacks should go to technical school in order to prove themselves worthy for equality. He believed that they had to earn their freedom. |
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| First leader of the KKK after he defied Reconstruction. He was a confederate general. |
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| what slaves were told that they would receive |
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| Lincoln's presidential reconstruction |
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| Wanted to restore the Union and be lenient in the process. Assumption that the South never really seceded. President still has strong power. Constitution gives the President the right to suppress rebellion without congress. 10 percent plan=10% of state must swear loyalty to USA then the state is back in the Union. (only 3 states qualify (LA, AK, TN)) |
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| wanted to redeem old South |
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| Ku Klux Klan, military arm of the Democrats at the time, white supremacy |
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| wanted the southern states to have to have 50% of loyalty to the US instead of 10% in order to come back in. |
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| President that was part of the compromise of 1877 |
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Electoral Commission established to decide Presidential election of 1876 selects Hays President. South threatens filibuster. Compromise worked out that Hays would be president; Southerners placed in Hays cabinet; Subsidies to rebuild Southern railroads; Federal troops would be withdrawn from the South. Ends Reconstruction. |
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