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- xNear Election Day, the victories at __________ and ___________ occurred, and the Northern soldiers were pushed to vote, and Lincoln killed his opponent in the Electoral College, 212-21.
- Invented the telegraph which allowed faster communication over longer distances. He also developed Morse code
- The slogan of the supporters of Polk's plan for Oregon. They wanted the border of the territory to be on 54' 40° and were willing to fight Britain about it. Eventually 49 degrees was adopted as the border, no violence.
- Southern slaves ran away to Union camps at the rate of ____ ___ ________ before Lincoln proclaimed emancipation.
- A Mexican general and dictator, who dominated Mexican politics for a quarter of a century. He was elected president, but didn't serve; instead he overthrew the government and established himself as a dictator. He commanded the Mexican army that stormed The Alamo during the Texas Revolution of 1835 and 1836 and killed all 187 defenders, but he was shortly afterward defeated and captured by Sam Houston's Texans.
- mission and fort that was the site of a siege and battle during the Texas Revolution, which resulted in the massacre of all its defenders; the event helped galvanize the Texas rebels and eventually led to their victory at the Battle of San Jacinto and independence from Mexico.
- Service offered them a chance to prove their manhood and to strengthen their claim to _____ ____________ at the end of the war.
- The Proclamation strengthened the __________ _________ ____ _______________ ____________ of the Union.
- Black's accounted for about ____ percent the Union army.
- While the European governments wanted the Union to be split, their people were pro-North and anti-slavery, and sensing that this war could eliminate slavery once and for all, they ______ __________ _____________ ___________ _____________ __________ ___________ _______________
- His basic strategy involved attacking the enemy's armies ___________________ and __________.
- United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States; First president of the Republic of Texas
- At Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. Grant besieged the city and captured it on July 4, 1863, thus securing the important Mississippi River. It did all of the following except-Reopened the Mississippi to Northern trade-Coupled with Gettysburg, foreign assistance for the Confederacy was lost-Quieted the cries for peace in the North-Cut off supplies from Texas and Louisiana to the Confederacy
- The belief that the US had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of North America.This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.
- Lincoln made a "_____ __ ___ _____" decision. One that did not make him look aggressive or weak.
- McClellan's men found a copy of Lee's plans and were able to stop the Southerners at _________, Maryland on September 17, 1862 in one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War.
- The Battle of Bull Run showed the North that the war would not be a "one punch knockout" and gave the South ____ ________ ___ _____________,
- France placed the Austrian Archduke _________________ as emperor of Mexico, but after the war, the U.S. threatened violence, and Napoleon left Maximilian to doom at the hands of the Mexican firing squad.
- The Union strategy now turned to _____ ___
- WHO IS IT? Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, or Bell?Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America after he won the Election of 1860.