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History chapter 16
lesson 4
Term | Definition |
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Emancipation | freeing of slaves, Lincoln did not think he had the power to |
Democrats | apposed emancipation, feared they would loose their jobs |
Abolitionists | thought war was pointless if it did not win for freedom of African Americans |
Lincoln | worried about losing the war b/c previous wartime Conscation Acts was not popular in border states |
Edwin Stanton | Sectary of war/ for emancipation |
Other | |
Emancipation Proclamation | order to free alt the confeterate slaves, military order, impact more symbolic than real, discouraged brittian from ading confeterates |
When did the Emancipation Proclamiation take effect on? | January 1 1863 |
Contrabands | escaped slaves in south carolina |
54 Massachusetts Infantry | mostly free african americans led a heroic change on S.C. Fort Wagner |
what year did Lincoln suggest that giving African american soldiers the right to vote | 1864 |
Fredrick Douglas | liked E.P. |
William Loyd Garrison | didn't think E.P. went far enough |
Clement L Vallandigaham | started a group of northern democrats that spoke out against war. |
Cooperheads | midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition. |
Why did Lincoln suspend the rights of Habeas Corpus | so he could deal with the cooperheads |
Habeas Corpus | constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
March 1863 | congress approved draft |
July 1863 | riots in new york caused 100 deaths |
Biggest Killer in War | typhoid, pneumonia, tuberculosis |
Clara Barton | organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battle field/ formed basis of the American Red Cross |
Sally Louisa Tompkins | est. a small hospital in richmond for confeterate |