AP US HISTORY CHAPTER 20

Inaugurated president in 1862 after winning the 1860 election;became the president of the disunited states; said that there was to be no conflict unless the south provoked it;marked restoration of the union as his top goal

One of the first to forts in the South that did not relinquish their power to the Confederacy;due to is dwindleing suppiles, lincoln had to tae action ;lincoln sent supplies( not reinforcments),however, to the south provisions were reinforcementson april 12 1861 cannons were fired onto the fort.

Was confederate commander in charleston who trained the shore batteries on sumter and gave the order to begin firing at the stonghold which surrendered

The included: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia; were crucial for both sides they are slave states( have not suceeded but can at any moment)

Region consisting of Souther Ohio Indianna and Illinois; ;argely settled by Southerners who had carried their racial prejudices with them

Well known general for the confederacy; hi knightly bearing abd chivalric sense of honor embodied the Southern ideal; at first he was offered by Lincoln to command the Northern armies, but when virginia seceded, he fel bound to his home state

Lees chief lieutenant for the majority of the war

General chosen by Lincoln after a long case of trial and error; would crunch his was to victory

In 1861 a union warship stopped the british mail a steamer forcibly removed two confederate diplomats bound for Europe; Britain was outraged, threatened for war with north

1862 escaped to the Portuguese Azores took on weapons and crew from britain but never sailed into a confederate base, thus using a loophole to help the south

Two confederate warships beging constructed in the shipyard they were designed to destroy the wodden ships of the Union navy with their iron rams and large caliber guns

FRench Emperor took advantage of americas preoccupation with its own international problems and dispatched a french army to occupy mexico city ;gambled on the fact that the Union would crumble and would be too weak to enforce the monroe doctrine

President of the confederacy wanted a well knit central government did not enjoy popularity ; was inclined to defy rather than lead public opinion

Tariff passed by the north it increased tariff rates by about 5-10% but war soon drove those rates even higher

Landmark of the war created to establish a sstandard bamking not currency andbanks that joined could but government bonds and issue soudn paper money was the first step toward a unified system