Don't Know Much About History

1.) When President Buchanan put a price of 250 on his head, brown responded by giving him two dollars and fifty cents.

2.) His plan was to arm the slaves who would flock to his crusade and march south to establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slave holding south.

3.) He became a symbol because he was caught and put on trial for the cause. Many people in the north came to the conclusion the he was a martyr in a just cause.

4.)December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession from the Union.

5.) The North had a bigger population, they were economically better off, they outproduced the South in agriculture and livestock. They could increase their wartime supplies and ship them by railroad.
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The south produced in greater quantities that the North in cotton, they were better riders, showed a greater martial spirit, they owned their own rifles, they were more at home with their weapons.

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a) Bombardment of fort Sumter, the battle that officially starts the war, South Carolina militia forces bombard Fort Sumter, lacking sufficient supplies the fort's commander surrenders.

b) First Battle of Bull Run: In Virgina the Confederate armies rout Union troops. The Union generalship is largely to blame. Thomas Jackson gets his nickname Stonewall for his leadership of the stand made but his troops that turned the tide of battle. After the battle they realize its not going to be three months its going to be two years. The first income-tax law was passed.

c) The Seven days' war June 26-July 2, Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond. The Peninsular campaign which might have captured Richmond and ended the war.

d)Battle of Antietam: Single most bloodiest day of the war, 10,000 dead and wounded for each side, Lee pulls back, his invasion blunted, but McClellan fails to pursue the retreating Confederate army. The battle is a critical turning point. With Lee offensive stalled, the likelihood of European recognition of the south is reduced.

e) Battle of Gettysburg: Final turning point of the war, confederates in search for shoes meet up with the union Calvary, reinforcements start pouring in. The Union army takes a strong defensive position and turn back confederate assaults. Confederates loses 28,000 a third of the army's effective strength, Union losses 23,000. Lee retreats to Virginia unable to press his drive against the North.

7.) I don't agree with it because it goes against the constitution where all men are innocent until proven guilty

8.) If his plans weren't found The confederate would have probably the battle and because it was a big turning point of the war the confederate army probably would have won the Civil war.

9.) After the war the south was in bad shape, Reconstruction is a way to rebuild the south while bringing them into the Union. It would readmit states after they had ratified the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. Some of the plan involved the people of the south having to swear an oath to the union, giving up their beliefs, or adopting some beliefs to the north. The first of the acts divided the south into military regions under the control of the generals, and accepting the fourteenth amendment they allowed blacks to vote.

10.) The Klu Klux Klan were the most notorious, powerful, and long-lived. They were antagonized whites of the South who were looking for a new way to gain power. They used political terrorism to frighten and suppress not only blacks, but liberal white republicans as well.

11.) Johnson was the first president to be impeached. Under Article II section 4 of the constitution the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson tried to dismiss war secretary Edwin M. Stanton there fore the house impeached him.