Girding For War: The North And The South 1861-1865
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Chapter 20 “Girding for War: The North and the South 1861-1865”
I. the menace of secession
A. What were the key assertions Lincoln voiced in his inaugural address of March, 1861?
He said splitting the country up is not possible because geographic reasons.
B. If/when the South seceded, what issued remained unresolved?
How much national debt would the south take if they left? What would happen to runaway slaves? Europe would be happy if US split up and became weak, was the US going to allow that.
C. Why were the European nations delighted at the prospect of Civil War in America?
Europeans were happy for the outlook of the civil war, Europe always wanted to see the US become weak and divide.
II. South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter
A. Upon …show more content…
Limitations on wartime liberties: What aggressive and occasionally unconstitutional actions did Lincoln take in an effort to win the war?
(a) increased the size of the Army, (b) sent $2 million to 3 private citizens for military purposes, (c) suspended habeas corpus so arrests could be made easily, (d) "monitored" Border State elections so the vote would turn out his way and (e) declared martial law in Maryland.
X. volunteers and draftees: North and South
A. What was the Conscription Law and who was most severely affected by it?
Their plan was to use volunteers. As the war continued and men died, enthusiasm also died. A military draft was started in the North and South to draft soldiers.
Congress allowed the rich to buy their way out for $300. That meant a poor people would have to fill those shoes. The north was mostly affected by having more poor people and men there.
B. How did Southerners avoid the draft?
The South had fewer men so they went to the draft earliest. The rich were also exempted under the South (those with 20+ slaves) "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight.
XI. Economic stresses of war
A. How did the Union pay for the
Chapter 20 “Girding for War: The North and the South 1861-1865”
I. the menace of secession
A. What were the key assertions Lincoln voiced in his inaugural address of March, 1861?
He said splitting the country up is not possible because geographic reasons.
B. If/when the South seceded, what issued remained unresolved?
How much national debt would the south take if they left? What would happen to runaway slaves? Europe would be happy if US split up and became weak, was the US going to allow that.
C. Why were the European nations delighted at the prospect of Civil War in America?
Europeans were happy for the outlook of the civil war, Europe always wanted to see the US become weak and divide.
II. South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter
A. Upon …show more content…
Limitations on wartime liberties: What aggressive and occasionally unconstitutional actions did Lincoln take in an effort to win the war?
(a) increased the size of the Army, (b) sent $2 million to 3 private citizens for military purposes, (c) suspended habeas corpus so arrests could be made easily, (d) "monitored" Border State elections so the vote would turn out his way and (e) declared martial law in Maryland.
X. volunteers and draftees: North and South
A. What was the Conscription Law and who was most severely affected by it?
Their plan was to use volunteers. As the war continued and men died, enthusiasm also died. A military draft was started in the North and South to draft soldiers.
Congress allowed the rich to buy their way out for $300. That meant a poor people would have to fill those shoes. The north was mostly affected by having more poor people and men there.
B. How did Southerners avoid the draft?
The South had fewer men so they went to the draft earliest. The rich were also exempted under the South (those with 20+ slaves) "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight.
XI. Economic stresses of war
A. How did the Union pay for the