Civil War

John Wilkes Booth

26 year old that killed Abraham Lincoln

Conscription

A draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army

Emancipation Proclamation

An attempt by Lincoln to free the slaves

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general that had unique tactics

For many, the Proclamation gave the war a high moral purpose by turning the struggle into a fight to free the slaves. Free blacks also welcomed the section of the proclamation that allowed them to enlist in the Union army.

How did different groups to Emancipation Proclamation?

The government passed the National Bank Act of 1863, the economy in the northern state boomed. The north started to pull away from the south which is what helped the industry.

How did the Civil War provide the economic foundation for the US to become an industrial giant?

In what ways did the South's morale deteriorate? As the war progressed, morale on the confederacies home front deteriorated. The confederate congress passed a weak resolution in 1863 urging planters to grow fewer cash crops like cotton and tobacco and increase population of food.

In what ways did the South's morale deteriorate?

Appomattox Court House

Lee and Grant met to arrange a confederate surrender on April 9th, 1865, in a Virginia village called Appomattox Court House

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address remade America

13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment freed all the slaves

Andersonville

The worst Confederate prison, that jammed 33,000 men into 26 acres, or about 34 square feet per person

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general from West Point, had strategy of attacking over and over regardless of loss of life

Income tax

Was used to pay for the war for the North

In the North, poor people were crowded into slums, crime and disease ran rampant, and poverty was ever-present. White workers feared that Southern blacks would come north and compete for jobs

What acts of protest occurred in both the north and south?

The union gained more land while the confederacy lost a lot of land

What happened in the civil war from 1861-1865?

They believed that it was essential to fight not only the South's army and government but it's civilian population as well

What was Grant and Sherman's rationale for using the strategy of total war?