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1844-1877 - Coggle Diagram
1844-1877
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Causes of the Civil War
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Political Compromises
Compromise of 1850
-California applies for statehood
-Fire eaters--> southerners
-runaway slaves --> Personal Liberty Law helped slaves escape
-Henry Clay
-California admitted as a free state if
-Mexican territories and Utah have popular sovereignty
-Abolish slave trade in D.C.
-Stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas Nebraska Act
-Opens popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska
-Slavery wins in Kansas but the North makes their own government
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Dred Scott Decision
-Scott sues because he is taken to a free state
-Scott loses and is still a slave
-slaves cannot sue --> no standing
-slaves are property not people
-black people cannot be citizens
-all territories can choose if they want slavery
-Slavery is a states issue
Civil War
Mobilizing for war
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Government spending
North
-Taxes, tariffs, treasury bonds
-Greenbacks
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Emancipation Proclamation
-Makes the purpose of the war ending slavery --> Stops European intervention
-allows black people to fight --> 54th Massachusetts
Strategies
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Union
-Wanted quick wins but failed
-Long war -->Anaconda (blockade)
-->Mississippi (cut in half)
-->Sherman's march to the sea
-->Capture Richmond
-Strong navy and bigger population
-better manufacturing
-bad leadership
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Reconstruction
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Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
-Thaddus Steven (Speaker of the House)
-Civil Rights Bill 1866
-14th Amendment
-Military Reconstruction Act 1867
-5 military districts in the south led by union generals
-Southern states had to reapply for statehood and ratify the 14th Amendment
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Initial Steps
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Freedmen's Bureau(1865)
-help free African americans
-schools
-Gave confiscated confederate land to
freed blacks --> Johnson took it back
Lincoln's 10% Plan
-10% of a state has to take a loyalty oath
-accept the Emancipation Proclamation
-Vetoed Wade Davis Bill which wanted 50%
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Compromise if 1877
-ended reconstruction
-Hayes wins president but the House Southerners don't want that
-Hayes could be president if the Union pulled all their troops from the south
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