The Civil War, 1861-65
Do you think the war was
inevitable? Was slavery THE
cause of the conflict? Explain
1860 Election
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The South: Rule or Ruin
Divided Democratic Party: Yancy Plank
Breckinridge and Douglas
Republicans: Lincoln as a Moderate
Unionist Party
Lincoln’s Election: A Pyrrhic Victory?
Secessionists
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Implications of Republican Victory
South Carolina’s Call to Arms
Montgomery Convention
Confederation States
Justification
The Border States
The Interregnum Period
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Buchanan’s Response
Southern Reactionaries
Search for Accommodation
13th Amendment
Lincoln and GOP
Crittenden, Thirty-three and Gentlemen
Inauguration and Ft. Sumter
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Lincoln’s Watchful Waiting
The Capitol: Armed Fortress
Lincoln’s Plea
Union First & Silence on Slavery
Re-supplying a Federal Fort
South Carolina’s response
Call to Arms
Mobilization Measures
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Financing the War: Bonds, Taxes, Paper
Raising an Army
Advantages North and South
GOP Program: RR, Land, Tariff
Strategic Situation
On To Richmond
Early Stages of War
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Lincoln and His Generals
Field Order No 1
The Battle of Bull Run
Southern Victory
The Anaconda Plan
The Western Theater
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Grant and Forts Donelson & Henry
Seizure of New Orleans
Securing the Mississippi
Shiloh
Vicksburg
The Frontier
Lincoln and Emancipation
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Costs and Realities of War
Delaware Plan: States’ Initiative
Summer of 1862
Antietam
Preliminary Emancipation
Lincoln’s Response to Greeley
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Politics of War
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The Economy
Republican Divisions: Radicals & Moderates
International Affairs
A Cabinet of Rivals
The Abolitionists
Contraband
Emancipation