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Jefferson Davis was the president of the confederates during the civil war. Davis never wanted to be president, instead he wanted to be a military commander. Even though he did a good job in satisfying the confederates about their racial beliefs.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States that believed in the abolishment of slavery. In the civil war, Abraham was with the Union side and was basically the Unions commander during the war. Win battles and losing battles, he was very good at directing them most of the time.

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Commander of the military division of Mississippi. He was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant. He believed that Total War was necessary to defend the South's civilian population and its government.

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Clara Barton was a war nurse that supplied doctors with proper equipment that she collected to use on army soldiers. Clara served on the front lines instead of serving at hospitals like most women.

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1.) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Confederate_Flag_%28Modern%29.jpg/220px-Confederate_Flag_%28Modern%29.jpg
2.) https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/32/64932-004-2D79DB70.jpg
3.) http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/images/shiloh3.jpg
4.) http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00000645.gif
5.) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/First_Bull_Run_July21_1600.png/400px-First_Bull_Run_July21_1600.png
6.) http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2011/03/election-of-1860-a-further-look-at-the-totals-by-counties/
7.)https://www.civilwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/scale_crop_360x295/public/thumbnails/image/Gettysburg%20Campaign%20Square.jpg?itok=5gL0qubQ
8.) http://www.warrencountyhistoricalsociety.org/publications/rewind-october-15-2017-abraham-lincoln-and-upstate-new-york/rewind-back-issues-2012/rewind-back-issues-2012/rewind-september-1-2012-conscription-in-the-civil-war/
9.) https://www.civilwar.org/learn/videos/emancipation-proclamation
10.) http://mrnussbaum.com/civil-war/trent_affair/
11.) https://www.onepathmedical.com/blog/residents-virginia-excited-marylands-marijuana-program/
12.) http://www.yonarrative.com/juneteenth-memories/
13.) https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sets/northern-draft-riots-during-the-civil-war/
14.) https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/election-1864
15.) https://goo.gl/images/38V0Fy
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17.) https://goo.gl/images/6gAi2v
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22.) https://goo.gl/images/yMYBd6
23.) http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/stonewall-jackson
24.) http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/george-b-mcclellan
25.) https://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540
26.) https://goo.gl/images/R6uQNa
27.) https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/jefferson-davis

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The first shots fired at  Charleston, South Carolina in December 1860. Ignites the civil war. No casualties.

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At the beginning of the war, it was predominately a white mans war. But, in 1862, Congress passed a law allowing African Americans to severe in the military. By the end of the war, 10% of the Union army was African American.

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George McClellan was nominated by a joined force of Democrats and pro-south party members. The Radical Republicans nominated John C. Fremont. Andrew Johnson from Tennessee was nominated by the National Union Party as Lincoln's running mate. The results of the election was Lincoln winning a second term.

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On April 14th, 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth escaped and was later found in a tobacco barn in Virginia were the Calvary set the barn on fire. Booth still refused to surrender and a shot was fired, unknown whether he shot himself or was shot by the Calvary, and the Calvary dragged his body out. Lincoln officially died at 7:22 A.M. on April 15.

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New York City in 1863 people were crowded into slums with high rates of crime, disease and poverty. Poor white worker thought it was unfair for them to serve in a war to free slaves out of fear that the slaves would come to the north and take their jobs. As a result, mobs rampaged throughout the city for four days.

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Both armies relied heavily on volunteers; however, high casualties resulted in conscription, or a draft that forced certain members of the population to serve in the military.

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Lincoln had a forceful way of dealing with disloyalty. He suspended habeas corpus-a court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before a court to determine why they were jailed- in Maryland. The Supreme Court Chief of justice Roger Taney claimed that Lincoln exceeded his constitutional powers. Among those who were most often arrest were Copperheads. Copperheads were Northern Democrats that advocated peace with the south.

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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863. It only applied to areas behind the Confederate line. The emancipation Proclamation had an immense symbolic importance. It gave the war a moral purpose by fighting to free slaves and it also allowed free black to enlist. However, the Democrats claimed that it would prolong the war by antagonizing the south. The Confederates were outraged and knew they lost their slave-holding society would parish.

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Historian Hari Jones describes the series of events which led President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This video is part of the Civil War Trust's In4 video series, which presents short videos on basic Civil War topics.

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Lincoln disliked slavery, but maintained a neutral position in the government. One of Lincoln's well-known quotes is, "My paramount objective is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery."

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Britain claimed neutrality and is no longer dependent on the south for cotton. They found new sources of cotton in Egypt and India. the Confederates wanted to test Britain's neutrality in an attempt to gain support from Britain and France. They sent two diplomats on a British ship, the Trent, and when the Union stopped the ship to arrest the two men Britain threatened war against the Union. Luckily,t he Union and Britain were able to resolve the situation in a peaceful way by the Union releasing the two men.

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Virginia was unwilling to fight against other southern states, and therefore seceded from the union. This was a huge loss to the union as Virginia was the most heavily populated southern state. Following Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina also seceded leaving only four slave states-Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri-left in the Union.

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A  determined and willing confederate commander that opposed secretion but because of his love for his home state Virginia, he declined an offer from the Union and stayed with the confederates. He moved against McClellan and that caused the seven days' battles. He also moved his troops toward the Unions capital.

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Lincoln had a dilemma between reinforcing Fort Sumter or evacuating it. If he reinforced the fort he would be responsible for starting the hostilities and it may result in the secession of slave states currently part of the Union. However, if he evacuated the fort he would be treating the Confederacy as a legitimate nation which would anger the Republican Party and weaken his administration: therefore, endangering the Union. Lincoln ended up doing neither and instead he sends food.

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A sixty-year old Union general who leads the union army to capture all major cities along the Mississippi and seize New Orleans.

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The confederate attack on Fort Sumter signaled the start of the civil war.

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A general of the Union that was, before, known as a useless civilian until he joined the military. He was then know as a brave, tough, and decisive military general that also captured two Confederate forts. Lincoln named him the hero of the battle at Vicksburg

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The biggest battle in the civil war, took place over three days, and the turning point of the civil war. Gettysburg crippled the south so badly that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a Northern state. Confederates led by A. P. Hill, went to find footwear in Gettysburg when they ran into brigades of union cavalry under the command of John Buford. On July 2, the second day of the battle, both sides were ready with soldiers. When the confederates ran out of ammo, more than a third of the brigade had fallen. At the end of the day though, both sides were still holding up. The third day, July 3rd, Lee ordered an artillery barrage on the middle of the union. The confederates tried to keep moving forward but the North held up well.  The battle went on for 3 days, with losses, and with more than 30 percent casualties.

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after the war was done north and south had to find a new direction to live in for their life or lives. leaders of the war had a military family to go home to. native Americans in the west of Robert e lost. became a president of the college in Virginia. the veterans had lived in small towns + farms. Barton helped the founded the American red cross in 1881...

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his war had power to freed only so many slave's in the states. they had a confederate lines to not yet under the union control. the president solution would a constitutional to aboshling  slavery. the republican senate approved the amendent in the summer of 1864.

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civil war cost were extensive. the confederate governments combined $3.3 billion during the 4 years of war and also 80 years the cost didn't  stop and until the war had no debt. they had a federal budget.

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human cost of the civil war were staggering. the cost of it was that 260,000 died as more than 360,000 union soldiers. the nations population is huge and lost people to death that was a tragedy. their education or careers and family members.

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south economillcy took away south source of cheap labor -slavery -and also wrecked most of the regions industry. south had 40 percent of the live stock. south had railroads and left thousand acres of land.

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northern states boomed. northern had grown rich selling war supplies to the government had money to invest in a new business after the war.  War's end , large scale agriculture had taken hold.

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between north and south the federal government or the supreme government didn't succeed again.

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Lead the new Union army and later made his army known as Army of Potomac. He then lead them to fight for the control of Mississippi.

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The bloodiest single day battle in American history, more than 26,000 casualties. This battle could have ended the civil war, however, McClellan did nothing. Although the battle was more of a standoff, the South had lost a quarter of their men, so they retreated into Virginia.

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southern states had threatened the federal policies angered them.

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Delegates from the seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama on February 4, 1861 to form the Confederacy: Confederate States of America. Former senator of Mississippi, Jefferson Davis, was elected as president of the Confederacy. Vice-president was Alexander Stephens from Georgia.

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Stonewall Jackson was a war her for the south. In the battle of Bull Run, the Union were standing their ground, making the confederates start to retreat. "Stonewall" Jackson's fellow general told his men to "look at Jackson standing there like a stonewall." Which earned his nickname and respect. His stance inspired his men to fight back instead of retreat.

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The second bigger battle in the civil war. Took place on April 6, at the church named Shiloh. The confederates surprised the Union. But the day following, Grant reorganized his soldiers, and counterattacked at dawn. The south retreated, but the battle ended in more of a draw. This war has the first huge fatality with 100,000 troops killed.

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As a result of Lincoln being elected, South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860 followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

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The first major battle in the Civil War was on July 21. The Union took on the Confederate in a little creek called Bull Run. General Thomas J. Jackson lead the south to their first victory to start the war.

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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, and John Bell were the three major candidates during the election of 1860. The winner of the election was Abraham Lincoln. and he received no electoral votes from the South.