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Chapter 11 Section 2 Early 1862- “picnic” over??? South- lack of manpower
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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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 Confederacy- no recognition- Europe Alabama- captured 60 Northern merchant ships 1862- Napoleon III- ruler of France Sent troops- Mexico British- wait and see
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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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 54 th Massachusetts Infantry Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Sergeant William Carney- first African American- Congressional Medal of Honor
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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
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Chapter 11 Section 2 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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