PopeNotes
Saving the Union
GettysBurg, most important battle
Dred Scott
Court ruling said he is a slave no matter where he is.
Touches off the civil war
Southerners wanted a type of reverse original consent ratification
Southerners wanted a type of reverse original consent
Lincoln didn't accept it,.
Lead to fort Sumpter
Said that perpetuity is implied, fundamental law of government
Lincoln and his Changes
Was is not initially about slaver, only holding union together
The war
The union generals were really bad
McClellan - Bad at fighting
John Pope next general
McClellan reinstated after John Pope - Loses Antietam even though he has the plans
General Burnside - Battle of fredericks burg - runs his troops into a meat grinder.
Joseph Hooker - Chancelorsvill - went bad
George Meade - winns Gettysburg, didn't make any decisions.
Southern Generals
Robert E. Lee - great general
Union had better lower generals Jashua Chamberlan - defends little round top
Lee tries to charge center - loses really bad
Ulysses S. Grant
Zapp Branigan style attack.
Hated by South
Even in north during the war, they had a hard time with Lincoln
Second Inaugorial address - we need to bind up and heal these wounds
Aftermath
Both union and south angry
South was forced to write a new constitution for universal male sufferage.
Forced to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
Proved Federal Government is supreme
Southern Elite - alienated, left country . Could not have power
No significant provisions for freedment(Black people)
Grant tried to protect rights
Jim Crow regime springs up in south.
Structural changes that didn't happen
Jonson didn't punish south, made Thaddeus Stevens angry
Taddeus Stevens hated the south, wanted to punish the south. Made tenure of office act
Cant fire cabinet
Andrew Johnson impeached because he fired a guy
Ross saves the union with one vote...
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