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5091279171. Napoleon IIIFrench dictator who ignored the Monroe Doctrine by intervening in Mexican policies
5091279182. MaximilianFrench viceroy who takes over Mexico during Civil War due to fact that America cannot enforce monroe doctrine
5091279193.Charles Francis AdamsAmerican envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil War
5091279204. Clara BartonNurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
5091279215. William H. Sewardas the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
5091279226. Edwin M. StantonSecretary of War under Lincoln who criticized him often
5091279237. Jefferson DavisPresident of the Confederate States of America
5091279248. Morrill Tariff ActThis was an act passed by Congress in 1861 to meet the cost of the war. It raised the taxes on shipping from 5 to 10 percent however later needed to increase to meet the demanding cost of the war. This was just one the new taxes being passed to meet the demanding costs of the war. Although they were still low to today's standers they still raked in millions of dollars.
5091279259. National Banking Actwere two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System
50912792610. Trent AffairThe incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats
50912792711. AlabamaA ship built by the British. Not originally built to be a war ship but in 1862 the confederates gave it a crew and weapons. It captured over sixty union vessels before it accepted a challenge from a union cruiser in 1864 off the coast of France.
50912792812. Laird ramsironclad warships tha were kept out of Confederate hards by Minister Adams's stern protests to the British government
50912792913. King Cottonwas a slogan used by southerners (1860-61) to support secession from the United States by arguing cotton exports would make an independent Confederacy economically prosperous, and—more important—would force Great Britain and France to support the Confederacy in the Civil War because their industrial economy depended on textiles derived from cotton
50912793014. Draft Riotswere violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

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