509127917 | 1. Napoleon III | French dictator who ignored the Monroe Doctrine by intervening in Mexican policies | |
509127918 | 2. Maximilian | French viceroy who takes over Mexico during Civil War due to fact that America cannot enforce monroe doctrine | |
509127919 | 3.Charles Francis Adams | American envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil War | |
509127920 | 4. Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross | |
509127921 | 5. William H. Seward | as the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. | |
509127922 | 6. Edwin M. Stanton | Secretary of War under Lincoln who criticized him often | |
509127923 | 7. Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | |
509127924 | 8. Morrill Tariff Act | This 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. | |
509127925 | 9. National Banking Act | were two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System | |
509127926 | 10. Trent Affair | The incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats | |
509127927 | 11. Alabama | A 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. | |
509127928 | 12. Laird rams | ironclad warships tha were kept out of Confederate hards by Minister Adams's stern protests to the British government | |
509127929 | 13. King Cotton | was 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 | |
509127930 | 14. Draft Riots | were 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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