Chapter 15

 Balanced cabinet with different opinions! (Seward!)  Politics as Usual…  Radical Republicans (Stevens)  Peace Democrats/Copperheads  Lincoln suspends liberties: martial law, writs of habeas corpus  Ex parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan  Clemant Vallandingham?

 North: 3% tax on incomes over $800, direct tax on states, $140 million of loans, exise taxes on products and services, 1863 overhaul banking system. Borrowed $2.2 Billion! $431 million in “greenbacks” issued  End of war cost of living DOUBLED in North!  South: Loans and bonds, inflated currency. States’ rights philosophy HURT here, too. BLOCKADE hurt ability to raise money through tariffs. Only covered 2% of needs with taxation! Borrowed heavily. HOPING for help from BRITAIN.

 November 1861: USS San Jacinto stops a British vessel, the Trent, on its way to negotiations with CSA in London (Mason and Slidell arrested!)  Lincoln’s response?

 Fort Sumter: Causes and effects  “Anaconda Plan:” Whose idea was it? How specifically did it work?  First Battle of Bull Run  Shiloh: Causes, effects, and leaders  McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign and early attempts to take Richmond  Antietam :Causes, effects, and leaders  Emancipation Proclamation: what did it do? What did it NOT do? Why was it also a MILITARY move?  NYC Draft Riots: causes and effects  African American Soldiers: How and why were they used in the war?  Gettysburg: Causes, effects, and leaders  Vicksburg: Causes, effects, and leaders  Women in Wartime  Medicine during wartime  Prisoners of War: Spotlight on the Andersonville Prison  Grant’s Wilderness Campaign: Causes, effects, and leaders  Sherman’s March to the Sea: Causes, effects, and leaders  Surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA and the RESULTS of the war for all sides