Transcript Civil War
Lincoln’s Inauguration o Attitudes towards slavery o Resupplying Fort Sumter Attack on Fort Sumter o Davis and his dilemma to attack or not? • April 12 and 13 Bombing of Fort Sumter • U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson hold fort • No one is killed in action The Civil War Begins o Economic advantages • Populations • Industrial Capacity • Money • Union Treasury • • o Legal Tender Act Confederate Money Military Advantages • Traditions of South vs. North o Political Situation • Keeping in Union Together • • Conscription Habeas corpus • Confederacy • • o New Constitution European situation Modern War • Attrition • Annihilation Early Stages o Bull Run • Stonewall Jackson o Naval War • Mississippi River • David G. Farragut • New Orleans o War in the West • Ulysses S. Grant • Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers • Shiloh-April 6, 1862 o War in East • Robert E. Lee • Seven Days Battle • 2nd Battle of Bull Run • Antietam-September 17, 1862 Emancipation Proclamation o September 2, 1862 o Gave till January 1, 1863 Life During Civil War o Clara Barton and Red Cross Reconstruction Begins o Lincoln and Radical Republicans • Lincoln’s Plan • Amnesty • 10% of voters take oath new governments can be formed • Confederate government officials and military officers could not take oath • Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner • Wanted to prevent Confederates from returning to power • Strong Republican Party in South • Finally they wanted the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their right to vote in South • Wade-Davis Bill • • • • • Majority had to take oath Constitutional Convention attendee’s and Ironclad Oath Abolition of slavery Accept debt of Confederacy Deprive military officers from voting or holding office • Freedmen’s Bureau • March 1865-Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned • Johnson Takes Office • Offered to pardon all former citizens of the Confederacy who took oath and returned any property • Required Southern state to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery • Congress Angered • Black codes and Election of Former Confederates Congressional Reconstruction o 14th Amendment • Civil Rights Act of 1866 vs. 14th Amendment o Military Reconstruction Act 1867. • Divided Confederacy into 5 military districts o Johnson’s Impeachment • Command of the Army Act • Tenure of Office Act Reconstruction and Republican Rule o Rebuilding the Union • Nearly all Confederate states rejoin by 1870 • Carpetbaggers vs. scalawags o African American’s New Start • Freedmen’s Bureau help o Republican Politics and Reforms o Southern Resistance • Ku Klux Klan o Troubled Grant Administration • First Term vs. Second Term • Panic of 1873 Reconstruction Ends o Compromise of 1877 o New South Arises • Industry develops