chapter 11 section 2

Chapter 11 Section 2

Early 1862- “picnic” over???South- lack of manpower

Chapter 11 Section 2• Powers- South- similar to the North• States’ rights and slavery• Common good• South- fewer resources• General Lee- draft- required military service• 3 years- military- white men- 18 to 35• Upped to 45 and 50• Gov’t- charge of South’s economy• Tax- personal incomes• Local authorities refused to cooperate


• Confederacy- no recognition- Europe• Alabama- captured 60 Northern merchant

ships• 1862- Napoleon III- ruler of France• Sent troops- Mexico• British- wait and see


• Tensions between Great Britain and the US• John Slidell, James Mason- ship Trent- Europe• Captured• British gov’t- troops to Canada• One war at a time- Lincoln• Lincoln- $19 million• Congress- Pacific Railroad Act- NE to Pacific• Homestead Act- free gov’t land• Raise tariff rates


• Federal income tax- US history• Internal Revenue Act- liquor, tobacco,

medicine, newspaper ads• National currency- greenbacks• North- draft• Democrats- Copperheads- against the war• Freed slaves- jobs away from the whites


• Border states- slave states- Union• DE, MD, MO, KY• “Disloyal” members- MD- arrested• KY, MO- control- Mississippi• KY- martial law- emergency rule- military

authorities• Writ of habeas corpus suspended• Legal protection- court determination- lawful

imprisonment


• Republican Party- Radical Republicans- punish- CSA

• Lincoln opposed slavery• No legal authority- abolish it• January 1, 1863- Emancipation Proclamation• No clout• Lee defeated- Antietam• France and England- no interference

Chapter 11 Section 2• African Americans- join the Union army• Union general Benjamin Butler• Free slaves• Contraband- captured items• Let the slaves go• 1865- 180,000 African Americans- Union army• July 1863- Fort Wagner, Charleston, SC• 54th Massachusetts Infantry• Colonel Robert Gould Shaw• Sergeant William Carney- first African American- Congressional

Medal of Honor


• Depletion- South’s labor force• North- greater numerical advantages• Food shortage- South• Union blockade- surplus cotton• Food riots erupted• Labor shortage, lack of goods- inflation• Profiteers- huge amount of money


• North- farms and factories• Samuel Colt- guns for the army• Prison Camps• North- Point Lookout- MD, Camp Chase- OH• South- Andersonville- GA, Richmond- Libby

Prison


• Medical care quite poor• Diseases rampant- mumps, measles• Malaria, pneumonia, nutritional foods lacking• Clara Barton- “angel of the battlefield”• American Red Cross• Dorothea Dix- nursing corps• US Sanitary Commission created

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