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Chapter 16: Civil War (1861-1865)

Chapter Outline

Secession
1. The First Wave of Secession
  1. The Deep South
    1. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
    2. Montgomery Convention (February 1861)
    3. the Confederate States of America
      1. President Jefferson Davis
      2. Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens
  2. Southern Unionists
2. Crittenden's Compromise
3. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
4. Fort Sumter
  1. Charleston, South Carolina
  2. Confederate attack and Union surrender (April 1861)
  3. Lincoln's call for troops
5. The Second Wave of Secession (April 1861)
  1. The upper South
  2. Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
Mobilization and Innovation
1. Northern Advantages
2. Southern Preparations
  1. Richmond Armory
  2. Harpers Ferry
  3. Confederate Ordnance Bureau
3. The Naval War
  1. Confederate innovations
    1. blockade runners
    2. ironclads: Monitor vs. Virginia
    3. torpedoes
    4. submarines
  2. Union blockade of the South
4. The War on Land
  1. First Battle of Manassas (July 1861)
  2. Shiloh and New Orleans
  3. The Peninsula Campaign and Second Battle of Manassas
  4. The Battle of Antietam (September 1862)
5. A New Warfare
  1. Transportation and communication: Railroad and telegraph
  2. Total war
  3. Rifled firearms
6. Military Medicine
  1. Union innovations
  2. Long-term legacies
7. Women at War
  1. Soldiers and spies
  2. "Camp followers" and "daughters of the regiment"
  3. Nurses
8. The Home Front
  1. Agricultural productivity
  2. Wartime finance
9. Modernizing America
  1. Homestead Act (1862): westward settlement
  2. Pacific Railroad Act (1862): transcontinental railroad
  3. Morrill Act (1862): land-grant universities
10. Conscription
  1. Militia Act (1862)
  2. Enrollment Act (1863)
11. The Emancipation Proclamation
  1. Preliminary proclamation (September 1862)
  2. Final proclamation (January 1863)
12. Union Setbacks
13. Union Victories
  1. The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863)
  2. African American soldiers
  3. The rise of Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman
  4. The fall of Atlanta and Sherman's "March to the Sea"
14. The Election of 1864
  1. Democratic nominee George B. McClellan
  2. Lincoln's reelection
15. The End of the Confederacy
  1. Siege and fall of Petersburg
  2. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House (April 1865)
16. The Costs of War
17. The Great Divide

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