2/2/12 Warm Up

1. Please take a sheet from each of the stacks of response cards on the podium. 2/2/12 Warm Up

2. Chapter 17 Notes

3. Lincoln was under pressure to free the slaves • He also was under a lot of pressure to not free the slaves • He didn’t want to upset the border state who were still in the Union but favored slavery. • Plus he didn’t know if he had the power to do because it was protected in the Constitution • His first priority was to keep the Union together. • Read pg. 504 Emancipation

4. Lincoln would wait until he was in a position of power • Battle of Antietam • Emancipation itself freed very few slaves • Just those in the confederate territories. • It was a symbolic measure • War was no longer about preserving the Union but it was now a war of liberation. • How could he freed the slaves if it is protected by the Constitution? • He used it as a act of War against the South Emancipation Proclamation

5. Fredrick Douglas said, “Once you let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S…. There is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” • By wars end 180,000 black soldiers would fight for the Union. • Most famous was the 54th Massachusetts African American Soldiers

6. One of the first African American regiments during the Civil War • Treatment was not always real good. • Faced grave dangers during the war. • If captured by the enemy they would be executed, instead of thrown in prison. • Famous for their attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina • Most would not survive the assault 54th Mass.

7. Copperheads- Northern democrats who favor peace with the South or any person in the North who favors the South • Conscription- Draft into the Army • Bounties- cash incentives for joining the army • Income Tax- how the Union funded the Civil War, tax earnings of individuals • Greenbacks- Paper currency Terms to Know

8. Clara Barton • Helped create the American Red Cross • She set a standard for proper battle field care of wounded soldiers • Women of the Civil • Started to do the jobs the men used to do • Farm, plow, factory work, office work, anything to support the family Women of the War

9. Deadliest battle in American History • 51,000 casualties • 3day battle • Union had 91,000 soldiers • Confederate had 75,000 • Turning point of the War… • Pickett’s Charge • Lost 13,000 on this attack alone • Union lost 23,000 men • Confederates lost 28,000 men Battle of Gettysburg

10. May 1863 (lasting 1½ months) • Union tried many attacks but failed so Gen. Grant surrounded the City. • Confederates ran out of food and were eventually forced to surrender. • Union accomplished a major part of the Anaconda Plan by securing the Mississippi River. • South was split in two Battle/Siege of Vicksburg

11. Objective was to pursue Lee’s army through the deep south from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean • Practiced Total War- • War not only against enemy troops, but against everything that supports the enemy. • After the March Northerners could sense victory, thus re-elected Lincoln • Democrats were trying to elect McClellan • He had an antiwar platform Sherman’s March to the Sea

12. April 9, 1865 • Small town in Virginia where Gen. Lee formally surrendered to Gen. Grant • What happened to Lee after the War? • He went home. Appomattox Court House

13. Over 620,000 dead • Each side would have to rebuild both physically and economically • One of the greatest effects of the War was the 13th Amendment • Freed all the slave in the United States Results of the War

14. Lincoln is assassinated • Ford’s theater • John Wilkes Booth • Consequences of War (pg. 522) Results of the War

15. Pg. 508 (Habeas Corpus) Writ of Habeas Corpus

16. Dred Scott Case • Kansas-Nebraska Act • Lincoln-Douglas Debates • Lincoln’s take • Difference between the North and South’s economy • Compromise of 1850 • Significance of the Election of 1860 • 5th Amendment Other things to know for the Test