The Civil War, 1861-65

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The Civil War, 1861-65

• Do you think the war was inevitable? Was slavery
  THE cause of the conflict? Explain

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1860 Election

• The South Rule or Ruin
• Divided Democratic Party Yancy Plank
• Breckinridge and Douglas
• Republicans Lincoln as a Moderate
• Unionist Party
• Lincolns Election A Pyrrhic Victory?

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Secessionists

• Implications of Republican Victory
• South Carolinas Call to Arms
• Montgomery Convention
• Confederation States
• Justification
• The Border States

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The Interregnum Period

• Buchanans Response
• Southern Reactionaries
• Search for Accommodation
• 13th Amendment
• Lincoln and GOP
• Crittenden, Thirty-three and Gentlemen

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Inauguration and Ft. Sumter

• Lincolns Watchful Waiting
• The Capitol Armed Fortress
• Lincolns Plea
• Union First Silence on Slavery
• Re-supplying a Federal Fort
• South Carolinas response
• Call to Arms

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Mobilization Measures

• Financing the War Bonds, Taxes, Paper
• Raising an Army
• Advantages North and South
• GOP Program RR, Land, Tariff
• Strategic Situation
• On To Richmond

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Early Stages of War

• Lincoln and His Generals
• Field Order No 1
• The Battle of Bull Run
• Southern Victory
• The Anaconda Plan

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The Western Theater

• Grant and Forts Donelson Henry
• Seizure of New Orleans
• Securing the Mississippi
• Shiloh
• Vicksburg
• The Frontier

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Lincoln and Emancipation

• Costs and Realities of War
• Delaware Plan States Initiative
• Summer of 1862
• Antietam
• Preliminary Emancipation
• Lincolns Response to Greeley
• Emancipation Proclamation

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1863
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Politics of War

• The Economy
• Republican Divisions Radicals Moderates
• International Affairs
• A Cabinet of Rivals
• The Abolitionists
• Contraband
• Emancipation