Key Terms and People Chapter 15
Fort Sumter - In 1861, that spark occurred at Fort Sumter, a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina , that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War. Determined to seize the fortress -- which controlled the entrance to Charleston harbor -- the Confederates ringed the harbor with heavy guns.
Border States - Wedged between the North and the South were the key border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri -- slave states that did not join the confederacy. Kentucky and Missouri controlled parts of important rivers.
Winfield Scott - Taking advantage of the Union's strengths, General Winfield Scott developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
Cotton diplomacy - The South hoped to wear down the North and to capture Washington D.C. Confederate president Jefferson Davis also tried to win foreign allies through cotton diplomacy. This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry. Cotton diplomacy did not work as the South had hoped. Britain had large supplies of cotton, and it got more from India and Egypt.
Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father was a carpenter and farmer. Lincoln's declining interest in politics was renewed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. In 1856 Lincoln gave his Lost Speech. He opposed the Dred Scott decision in 1857 and gave his famous York "House Divided" Speech on June 16, 1858. He also engaged in a series of debates with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Lincoln was against the spread of slavery into the territories but was not an abolitionist. Douglas won the Senatorial race, but Lincoln gained national recognition.
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Border States - Wedged between the North and the South were the key border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri -- slave states that did not join the confederacy. Kentucky and Missouri controlled parts of important rivers.
Winfield Scott - Taking advantage of the Union's strengths, General Winfield Scott developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
Cotton diplomacy - The South hoped to wear down the North and to capture Washington D.C. Confederate president Jefferson Davis also tried to win foreign allies through cotton diplomacy. This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry. Cotton diplomacy did not work as the South had hoped. Britain had large supplies of cotton, and it got more from India and Egypt.
Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father was a carpenter and farmer. Lincoln's declining interest in politics was renewed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. In 1856 Lincoln gave his Lost Speech. He opposed the Dred Scott decision in 1857 and gave his famous York "House Divided" Speech on June 16, 1858. He also engaged in a series of debates with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Lincoln was against the spread of slavery into the territories but was not an abolitionist. Douglas won the Senatorial race, but Lincoln gained national recognition.
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