Fort Sumter
Charleston, SC
- Boeregard surrounded the fort, Lincoln was sending supply ships
- Lincoln said it was just supplies
- Boeregard said NOPE ACT OF WAR, and attacked
Crittenden Compromis
- would’ve worked, because it would of became a 13th Anendment
- Lincoln said NO ABSOLUTELY NOT AT ALL ANY TIME EVER
More Secession (for South)
VA, NC, TN, ARL did secede too
- VA symbolic, close to capitol, huge population, transportation, Lee
- Richmond became capitol to thank Virginia for seceding
More Secession (for North)
MO, KT, MD, DL didn’t secede
- MO, slave going down, would be attack first if with South
- KT- food, military, Ohio River, population to pull from
- MD- keeps capitol not surrounded by South
- West VA- new state with North
Union Strategy
1 take Richmond
2 blockade the South by sea
3 divide the South by taking the Mississippi River
-2 works well
Two Theaters if War
East- taking Richmond, 2 battles of Lee, Gettysburg and Antietam
West- Everything along Miss River- New Orleans, Vicksburg, Shiloh Church
First Battle of Bull Run
- 1862 Manassas Junction (South)
- McDowell- army of Union, take Richmond by land
- “Stonewall” Jackson- held for holding Manassas Jackson
- shows the Union that this was going to harder than we thought
Morill Tariff
47% protective tariff
Homestead Act
Free 160 acres but make it better
- income and property tax
- raised Gross Domestic Product
Morill Land Grant Act
To make sure there is money for schools
Pacific Railway Act
-constructed a mechanism to build the transcontinental railroad
Checker Board Layout:
Black spaces are 10 mile squares for companies, but they have to build the railroad, they then sell the land. The white part is for fed govt they also sell land
LOOK IN NOTES IT’S AMAZING
Legal Tender Act (LTA)
Made a national currency called “greenbacks”
National Banking Acts (1863 and 1864)
-anything that crosses a state line is an extra 10% unless you use greenbacks
-gets people to want greenback, causing banks to have to ask for them, but if they want them:
1 we regulate your stuffs
2 1/3 of deposits to war bonds
-generates money for govt during war
Rich Man’s War and a Poor Man’s Fight
Both in North and South
South Rich:Poor quote
Exempt:
1 could buy a substitute
2 one white man for a plantation with 20+ slaves
North Rich:Poor quote
Exempt:
1 pay for substitute
2 300 dollars to buy out, hard
Why is it Rich complimenting?
-the former slaves could be cheap labor force when they move North
