Presidential of the Disunited States of America -1861=President Lincoln inaugurated -North and South bring about questions to debt, federal territories -With North and South going against one another pleased other European countries=the split of Monroe Doctrine
South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter -Lincoln tells S.C. that he's sending provisions but to the S.C. those were reinforcements -the South fired cannons on April 12, 1861 -after 34 hours they surrendered -Lincoln puts forth a blockade=weak at first/strong layter on -Border States (BS)=Virigina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina -Confederate capital=Richmond
Brother's Blood and Border Blood -border states key to winning the war -Lincoln uses moral persuasion to keep the BS -Lincoln says the war is on SAVING THE UNION, because if he said it was to stop slavery he would loose the BS to the South -Five Civilized Tribes=Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole=side with South -Parts of Cherokee and Plain Native Americans fight with North -brother v. brother
The Balance of Forces -South advantages -only had to fight to a draw to win -keep North from invading -better generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson -since children they learned to fight -Down fall of the South=shortages -North advantages -better economy -more men -sea power -Down fall of the North=bad generals -North strength beat Southern advantages
Dethroning King Cotton -South depends on foreign aid=not at all -Europe favors anit-slavery they do not get invovled -don't need cotton from South b/c surplus -King Corn and King Wheat beat King Cotton
The Decisiveness of Diplomacy -South almost recieved help from foreign countries but it failed to succeed -1861 British mail steamer Trent removed two Confederate -British get mad=Lincoln release them -1862 British Alabama and Confederates -Charles Francis Adams=telling Britain not to make any ships for the Confederacy
Foreign Flare-Ups -Britain=two Laird rams=two Confederate war ships that can crush the wooden ships of the Union=Union telling British "NO"=British OK -Napoleon II puts Austrian Archduke Maximilian in Mexico=U.S. sayin "Don't U Dare...Get out...Montroe Doctrine"
President Davis versus President Lincoln -Jefferson Davis works hard while Lincoln chills
Limitations on Wartime Liberties -Lincoln does tyrannical acts but only in order to preserve the Union -illegally calling for a blackade -acts with out Congressional consent -sending in troops to border states -advancement of $2million to 3 private citizens -suspension of habeas corpus -intimidations of voters in teh Border States
Volunteers and Draftees:North and South -at first man power was strong but then weak=draft=angry poor b/c rich can pay $300 for substitute -volunteers made 90% of Union army
The Economic Stresses of War -Morril Tariff Act -Washington treasury goes up -National Banking System -National Banking Act when BUS was killed my Andrew Jackson -Inflation goes up in South 9000% at to the Norths 80%
The North's Economic Boom -The North does better in coming out of the war than going in -millionaire class born -shoddy suppliers -size in clothing invented -petroleum oil discovered in Pennsylvania -women gained the positions of men while they were at war -Clara Burton and Dorothea Dix=transforming nursing into a respectful profession -Sally Tompkins=Richomond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers and awarded the rank of Captain by Jefferson Davis
A Crushed Cotton Kingdom -the South was ruined by the war -transportation collapsed -supplies became scare -South claimed 12% of the nations wealth=30% before the war THE SOUTH LOST
