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Year of Confederate conscription Act

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1862

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Number of Secretaries of State and secretaries of war under Davis

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4 state, 6 war

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Jefferson Davis military experience

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Fought in Mexican War

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Roles of Judah Benjamin in Confed gov

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First Secretary of Justice, then War, then State

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Number of Confederate cabinet members serving from start to end

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Only 3

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Reasons for Benjamin’s success in cabinet (2)

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Prepared to take responsibility

Very close relationship to Davis

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Number of employees in Confederate War Department

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57,000 civilians

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Longest serving Confed War secretary

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James Seddon, Nov 1862-Feb 1865

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Number of Confed Congressmen in U.S. Congress

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1/3 of 267

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N New to Confed after 1863 Congressional Election (%)

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40%

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Congressional opposition to Davis

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Many but not United

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Governor Brown of Georgia, undermining Confed effort

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Opposed conscription

Fake state militias

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Role of voluntary associations in Confed war effort

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Women’s groups made clothing and flags

Local communities supplied troops

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Problems with Confed finance (4)

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Few gold reserves
Taxes unpopular
Cotton hard to trade
Borrowing led to inflation

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Confed 1863 Impressment Act, new powers

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Seizure of goods to support front line, 10% of all produce from farmers

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% of Confed income from taxes

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8%

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Amount raised in Feb 1861 by Confed Treasury through bonds and stocks

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$15 million

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Problems with Confed bonds from 1863

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Less popular as cotton couldn’t be exported out, loss of security

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Inflation in Confed, price of bacon 1861, 63

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$1.25 to $10.00 for 10 lbs

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Price multiple 1861-65 in East Confed

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5000x

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Year of Memminger’s, Treasury Secretary, resignation

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1864

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New Confed Secretary of Treasury after 1864

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George Trenholm

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Role of Ordnance Burea

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Gov agency responsible for acquiring war materials

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Leader of Ordnance Bureau

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Josiah Gorgas

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Quota on blockade runners (year, quota)
1863. 1/3 cotton out, 1/3 war supplies in
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Year of ban on luxury goods being imported
1864
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Success rate of blockade runners
75%
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Confederate imports of small arms and saltpetre (%)
60% small arms, 75% saltpetre
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Reduction in cotton production 1861-64
4 million in 1861 to 300,000 in 1864
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Number of men mobilised by Confederacy
900,000 men, 40% of white males of fighting age
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Effect of conscription on Confed women
Longer hours | Women took men's jobs
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Number of men from initially Confed states joining Union armies
90,000
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Highest death rate in Confed army, by class
Planters leading men into battle
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Year of Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus
1862
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Number of people arrested after suspension of habeus corpus
40,000 subject to arbitrary arrest
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Lincoln's dictatorial actions in April 1861 (3)
Called for troops, proclaimed a blockade in South and ordered military spending of $2 million without approval from congress
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Lincoln's work hours
7 am to 11 pm
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Make up of US congress in 1861
105 Republicans, 43 Democrats and 28 Unionists
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Number of Republicans in US senate after 1862 mid term elections
31 of 48
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Health associated voluntary association in Union
United States Sanitary Commission
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Number of Northerners owning a share of US national debt
1 million
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Proportion of Union's revenue from loans and bonds
2/3
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Proportion of Union's revenue from taxes
1/5
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Terms of 1861 Union income tax
3% of incomes over $800
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What did the Internal Revenue Act tax in Union from 1862
Everything
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Amount of money issued by 1862 Legal Tender Act
$150 million in paper
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Union constraints to inflation
10% tax on state bank notes
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Inflation in Union over the war
80%
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Terms of 1862 Homestead Act
Free 160 acre farms in West if land would be worked for 5 years
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Effect of war on Union exports
Wheat, corn, beef and pork doubled
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Increase in wheat growing, 1862-3 to 1859
More in Union states in 1862/63 than whole US in 1859
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Increase in land being cultivated between 1862 and 1864
2.5 million acres
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Reduction in immigration from the war
Immigration fell by 1.3 million, population fell by 5.6% with war and immigration
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Race riots in 1863 in North, key cities (4)
Chicago, Buffalo, Boston and New York
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Key source of opposition to Lincoln during war
Democrats
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Nickname for anti-war Democrats in the Union
The Copperheads
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State of Clement Vallandigham
Ohio
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Year of Vallandigham's campaign and for what
1863 for Ohio governor
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Charge and punishment for Vallandigham
Treason and imprisonment for rest of the war
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Month of New York Draft Riots
July 1863
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Cause of New York Draft Riots and man responsible
Conscription Act and Democrat Governor Horatio
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Number of troops needed to restore order after New York draft riots
20,000
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British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister in War
Lord Russell, FS and Lord Palmerston as PM
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British attitude to conflict and when adopted
Neutrality from May 1861
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Confederate attempts to bring Britain into the war
Cotton embargo to try and force blockade break
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Name of Confed newspaper set up in UK
Index
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Union minister to London
Charles Francis Adams
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Names of Confed Commissioners in Trent Affair
James Mason and John Slidell
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Ship in Trent Affair
British Steamer called Trent
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British response to Trent Affair (5)
``` Demanded release of Sidell and Mason Public apology by US Prepared British fleet for action Sent troops to Canada Stopped war trade ```
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Lincoln's resolution to Trent Affair
Didn't apologise but accepted illegality and released Slidell and Mason
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Cotton situation in Britain before and after 1863
Before, high unemployment in mills | After, replaced by imports from China, India and Egypt
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Most Successful Commerce raider
Alabama, sinking 64 ships
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Effect of Commerce Raiders
Nuisance not crippling | Only 200 ships sunk
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Naval crisis between Union and Britain in 1863
Laird Rams

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