Final Exam Hist 1301
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- Define the Wilmot Proviso
- Amendment to the appropriations bill to give the military money
- What was attempted with the Wilmot Proviso?
- Slaver forbidden in the W (House-Y, Senate-N)
- CA Gold Rush funded
- much of the industrial revolution
- Zachry Taylor served...
- 1 yr, died in office
- Who Took over for Zach Taylor?
- Millard Fillmore
- If CA was a free state...
- Yankees would have house and senate power
- Compromise of 1850 (Henry Clay)had what 4 things?
- CA free state, NM & UT created (could be slave), Fugitive Slave Act, DC created capital
- 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
- Fed Gv't had to help catch slaves and assisting a slave to escape became illegal
- Consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act
- More Freesoilers
- DC made as capital b/c
- no state could have it
- Northern Attitudes about slavery
- Maj-"freesoilers" keep slavery out of the W Min-Abolitionists (radicals)
- Illinois passed laws preventing
- Black Migration
- Uncle Tom's cabin - supposed to
- move the south against slaver
- Effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Made sectionalism worse, more northerners abolitionists
- President Douglas was a ______, nicknamed...
- free soiler, little giant
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Created 2 territories as free states, the W open to slavery (chosen by popular sovereignty)
- Effects of Kansas-Nebraska Act
- thousands of abolitionists moved to Kansas to keep it free, 4k MI'ians came to vote pro slave and went home
- The 2 factions in "Bleeding Kansas"
- Regulators-proslave Red legs-antislavery
- NE abolitionist churches funded the antislave movement via
- "Beecher's Bibles"
- Sumner-Brooks affair (Butler too)
- Sumner insult Butler & S, Brooks beat him down in the senate
- Whigs split into
- S Dem, N Rep (North only party, freesoilers, free land)
- Pres James Buchanan
- From Europe, unsure about slavery
- Dred Scott case
- Blacks not citizens - no civil rights, MI compromise unconstitutional
- John Brown's Raid
- "God" inspired, kill white slave owners, and create liberation army
- Slaveholders were what percent of the pop.
- 5% of citizens, 20-5% of families
- Typical Slave ownership vs. 100 or more
- 2-4 slaves, .0003%
- Planters had ___ slaves
- 20 and up
- Harper's Ferry
- John Brown took it by surprise, and sat for 2 days till the military took it back
- "free men" / artisans
- slaves could buy their freedom
- Each slave cost
- 1500 then, 15000 now, for lowest quality
- Gen. Sherman did...
- plantation burnings
- Dreyton Plantation saved by
- 14-yr old slave
- Slavery yielded what percent profit yearly
- 10
- class break down in the south
- 25% slave holders, 75% yeoman farmer
- Turning point in defense of slavery
- 1830
- Garrison's "Liberator"
- newspaper against slavery
- Nat Turner Revolt
- freest a slave could be, had is own church, etc. he and 60 men revolted and killed 60 others
- John Brown's fate
- Tried and hung - became a martyr
- Election of 1860
- N.Dem Douglas-pop sovereignty S.Dem Breckenridge - fed. protection of slavery N.Reps Abraham Lincoln - free soil
- by 1861 _ states had pulled from the union
- 7
- Feb 1861 Confed. States of America created
- ownership of slaves guaranteed, pres serves 6 yrs and can't be reelected
- Buchanan was
- lame duck
- Ft. Sumter
- about to fall, lincoln sent reinforcements, but couldn't land, conf. officers came for flag lower, 3 died cannon misfire
- Lincoln calls for all loyal men to serve, included S states and
- 4 more states secede
- Winfield Scott's plan
- build up tools, army, navy, cap the Mississippi and blockade the coast
- Battle of Bull Run
- 4 days to march 30 miles (US), conf. brought in reinforcements and US ran
- Maryland legislators were
- jailed
- Battle of Shiloh
- S. Gen Albert Sid Johnson attacked Grant's 40k before he met up w/ Buell, neither win
- The "bloody" aspect of the Civil war was foreshadowed by
- the battle of shiloh
- Robert E. Lee
- defends richmond, had defeated all opposition, argued to raid PA for food and supplies, wanted to gain support from Britain and France to break blockade
- Peace Dems
- anti-war movement, known as copperheads
- Antietam
- Lee to surprise attack McClellan, lee's orders make it to McC, Lee defends and repels 2/3rds
- Conscription
- lottery draft 25% of total forces
- Emancipation Proclamation released after Antietam
- threatens to get a surrender = keep slaves
- Effects of Em. Proc.
- full abolitionist support, Britain and France won't aid S, free slaves fight for N
- Vicksburg Campaign (over the Mississippi)
- U.S. Grant captured
- Gettysburg
- Lee vs. Mead 50k casualties
- Chatanooga
- Grant captures RR xroad
- Lincoln almost broke down
- thought the war was lost for the N
- US' war of CS' war of
- US attrition CS moral exhaustion
- Lincoln takes U.S. Grant and
- gives him all navy and army (win my war)
- To take Richmond
- Grant took 120 good, Lee took 60 passable, Grant lost 60, Lee lost 25 "butcher grant"
- Cold Harbor
- 8k dead in 16 min
- Sherman's March to Sea
- 60 mi. wide "swarm of locusts", met up w/ Navy through Savanna
- "The End"
- Grant cut last RR to Richmond (Appamattox)
- Overall dead numbers
- N 360k, S 260k