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Naval blockade of southern seaports to block import of manufactured goods and block the sale of cotton exports
Control the Miss. River to cripple southern transportation link and split the South in two
Seize Confederate capital, Richmond (100 miles from D.C.)

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The weapons are very accurate
Could shoot 200-500 yards
3 shots per minute

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Rifles and cannons had become more powerful, accurate, and deadly proving old fighting tactics obsolete and causing devastating casualties on both sides
First use of ironclads - warships covered with iron plates.

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Confederates had excellent generals too -Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jackson

Defending is always easier than attacking - (familiar w/climate and territory, possible psychological advantages)

Farmers fight better than factory workers

Profitable economy based on cotton exports
BUT a MUCH smaller population of 9 million including 3.5 million slaves and would have to import all goods including munitions

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LARGE population - 22 million 90% of industrial goods made there- munitions
Efficient railroad system
Controlled the navy
Capable military leaders- Ulysses S. Grant

BUT would have to fight an offensive war on mostly southern land (long supply lines, unfamiliar territory...)

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The civil war was going on during 4 years 1861-1865.

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January 1, 1863.  Lincoln freed the slaves in all the states that were fighting against the Union, so, it actually freed ZERO slaves.  However, it changed the objective of the war; It was now a war to preserve the Union and end slavery.  It also kept Britain from helping the South as they wouldn’t fight to help keep people enslaved.  Additionally, the proclamation made it possible for African Americans to join the Union Army.

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Slavery status determined by Popular Sovereignty

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No more slave trade in Washington D.C

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1850 California becomes a Free state

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Northerners were concerned that if Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, other territories would also be admitted as slave states.
Southerners worried that if Congress banned slavery in Missouri, it would try to end slavery elsewhere.

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Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state at the same time to keep the balance equal between the North and the South in the Senate.

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Jefferson Davis president of the confederates state of America

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the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

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People called him a saint.hero and a murderer.He has 5 children risked their life

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Still excluded from all but the most menial jobs.Children could not attend public school.Could not vote.Could not serve on juriesCould not testify against a white person in court.

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Treated as “things” not people.Worked as heavy farm labor, servants, housekeepers, butlers, or nannies.Received punishments such as whippings,Families were often broken apart

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They farmed Rice,Indigo,Cotton,tobacco and sugarcane

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With this invention was made the southerners were agrarians.

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Mild winters and long, hot, humid summers.

Plentiful rainfall and long growing seasons

A perfect place for raising warm-weather crops that would have withered and died farther north.

An especially important feature of the South was its broad, flat rivers. Many of the South's earliest towns were built at the mouths of rivers.

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Pushed for an end to alcohol abuse and the problems created by it. Many women took part in this social reform Considered alcohol to be morally wrong

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Massachusetts becomes the first state to use taxes to set up public schools, free from religion.

Only wealthy, no poor

Many Americans couldn’t read or write

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Poorly heated

Not enough food

filled with debtors

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a person or institution that owes a sum of money.

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If someone's lips touch liquor then the women won't kiss then or touch their lips anymore

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The North & South differed in their geography, economies, transportation systems, and societies.

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The North and the South developed differently from each other in the first half of the 1800s.

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couldn't vote,couldn't serve juries,limited rights in land ownership.

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Were the reformers working to end slavery all over US.

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a person or institution that owes a sum of money.

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A forged or copied document, signature, banknote, or work of art.