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| A little town in Pennsylvania; with casualties numbering at 55,000 it was one of the greatest battles in North America. Union forces were led by George Meade and Confederate by Robert E. Lee, and Meade forced Lee into retreat 3 days later, marking the turning point for the Union. | ||
| Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at | ||
| President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. graduated from west point | ||
| Extreme Northern Democrats who believed the Union could be united if slavery were not attacked. Opposed conscription and were arrested on the charges of hindering the Union cause with slanderous talk about Lincoln and his supporters | ||
| Prominent Copperhead who was an ex-congressman from Ohio, demanded an end to the war, and was banished to the Confederacy | ||
| Abraham Lincoln did this, which was a court order that forced the detainer of a prisoner to show cause for the prisoner's detention. By suspending the order, the president had the right to arrest anti-Unionists or pro-Southerners. | ||
| During the Civil War, Congress passed the Morrill Tariff Act, an act that put a protective tariff on imports. Congress also collected income taxes and excise tasxes and sold war bonds to raise even more revenue. Congress passed the Homestead Act, which gave out free land to settlers, and authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad to carry troops and supplies. All of these acts helped the war effort by utilizing the North's economic resources. | ||
| The North passed the Morrill Tariff Act, an excise tax, and used war bonds to finance the war. The South financed the war by issuing unsound currency. | ||
| Both the North and the South had these acts which forced people into the military to fight in the war. In 1863, New York City immigrants started a draft riot because rich people were able to dodge the draft. In the South, few people were drafted because they considered it dishonorable. | ||
| In this election, five political parties supported candidates for the presidency. They included the War Democrats, Peace Democrats, Copperheads, Radical Republicans, and the National Union Party. Each political party offered a different point of view on how the war should be run and what should be done to the Confederate states after the war. The National Union Party joined with Lincoln won the election on the recent northern victories against the South. | ||
| This party was made up of President Lincoln's Republicans and Stephen Douglas' War Democrats. They joined forces in order to prevent a Radical Republican victory. | ||
| Lincoln's reconstruction plan which would allow a southern state to reenter the union if only 10% of the voters in that state pledged alleigance to the union. | ||
| This political party wanted the Reconstruction to be a radical change. They favored the political subservience of the South and were led by Thaddeus Stevens. They nominated George McClellan to run for president against Lincoln in 1864 and he rain with the platform that demanded the end of the Civil War by peace negotiations. | ||
| He was assassinated by John W. Booth on April 14 while at Ford's Theater. Andrew Johnson, his vice president, succeeded him. |
