Ch. 20: Girding for War: The
North and the South
Despite the Confederacy strengths, the
Union Army utilized it’s long term
advantages to wage a devastating total war
against the South
•Politics
•Military
•Economics
I. Politics
A.
President Lincoln Inauguration
1.
2.
B.
Capable Cabinet
Fort Sumter, April 1861
Union and “honest Abe”
1.
Border States
a.
2.
C.
“Preserving the Union” at all costs
Confederacy
1.
2.
3.
4.
Defensive War
Talented Military leaders
Embattled President
Foreign Intervention?
a.
b.
c.
D.
Suspension of habeaus corpus
Trent Affair and C.S.S. Alabama
Charles Francis Adams
Maximillian
Other Voices of Opposition
1.
2.
Clement Vallandigham
“mountain whites”
II. Military
A.
Union
1.
2.
Volunteers (90%)
Conscription, 1863
a.
b.
3.
African-Americans
a.
B.
Substitutes or exemptions
New York Riots, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation,
1862
Confederacy
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Jefferson Davis
Failure of “King Cotton”
Volunteers
Conscription, 1862
Foreign Intervention
Slaves and Native Americans
III. Economics…
how to pay for the war?
Bank
Dep
Factories
A.
Cotton
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Crops
Union
Conf
Horses
B.
Mules
RR
Tracks
Union-stronger economy
Confederacy-Failure of
“King Cotton”
1.
2.
3.
Pop
0
100
200
Morrill Tariff Act, 1861
1st Income Tax
“Greenbacks”-$450 million
U.S. Treasury Bonds
National Banking System,
1863
4.
Blockade cut customs duties
Government bonds
Taxes were challenged by
state rightists!
Forced to lots paper money
Helpful Vocabulary
• Habeas corpus: A judicial order requiring
that a prisoner be brought before a court at a
specified time and place in order to
determined the legality of the imprisonment
• Greenback: US paper currency, especially
that printed before the establishment of the
Federal Reserve System.
Chapter 20 Vocabulary
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Napoleon III
Maximillan
Charles Francis Adams
Clara Barton
William Seward
Edwin Stanton
Jefferson Davis
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Morrill Tariff Act
National Banking Act
Trent Affair
Alabama
Laird rams
King Cotton
Draft Riots
Butternut Region
Martial Law
Indian Territory