Emancipation
Proclamation
Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation kept this nation from becoming a military ally of the confederacy.
What was England or Great Britain?
What was 1776?
What was the battle of Cold Harbor?
For "public safety" Lincoln suspended this due process right, allowing for arrests without any evidence and for many with no trial.
What is habeas corpus?
It is what started the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What was the Pacific Railway Act 1862?
This allowed union military leaders to keep escaped slaves as "contraband" slaves (who would now work and be paid by the Union) . . . and pretty much set the stage for Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What were the Confiscation Acts?
When Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, " . . . and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . . ." he was referring to this document.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
After Cold Harbor, Lee retreated to protect Richmond, but Grant began to lay siege to this city, which was a gateway to Richmond.
What was Petersburg?
This Supreme Court Case ruled that Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was illegal, but that was after the war was over.
What was Ex Parte Milligan, 1866?
Federal funds for agricultural and technical colleges.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act 1862?
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed these men to join the Union Army . . . and over 250,00 did so.
Who were freed African Americans?
When Lincoln said, " . . . and that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom . . . " he was referring to ending this.
What is slavery?
After 10 months Petersburg finally fell to the Grant. Lee and Jefferson Davis evacuated this city.
What was Richmond?
This act allowed the Union to draft anyone 20-45 into the Union Army.
What was the Conscription Act 1863?
But the rich could pay their way out for $300.
To help settle the Great Plains it offered 160 acres of free land if the land was "worked" for five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
The Emancipation Proclamation added this new goal for winning the civil war.
What was ending slavery?
When Lincoln said, ". . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." he was referring to this, the original goal of the Civil War.
What is to preserve the Union?
Out of supplies and his men exhausted Lee surrendered to Grant here.
What was Appomattox Court House, VA?
To help the economy, the Union issued this paper money, that was NOT backed by gold.
What were greenbacks?
The South also issued their own money, which became worthless when the war ended . . .another reason the south was devasted economically . . . they had no money.
It raised tariffs to protect American (union) industry during the Civil War.
What was the Morrill Tariff Act 1861?
The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to slaves in these states . . . Lincoln wanted them to stay in the Union.
What were the "Border States?"
What abolitionist urged Lincoln to make freeing the slaves a war aim and letting freed African Americans to join the Union army.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln was assassinated by this man.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
In the 1864 election Lincoln defeated this Copperhead democrat (copperheads wanted to end the war), who was also his former commanding general.
Who was George McClellan?
In the summer of 1863, a riot lasting for days in this city erupting over draft and racist views on the war. Over 100 people were murdered before it was brought under control.
What was the New York City Draft Riot.