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- Controlled most of the nations wealth, high tariffs, taxed income, paper money called greenbacks, sold government bonds
- Little to no industry, and relied on imports of goods for the war
- Most of the nations factories, skilled workers, and could produce weapons and supplies needed for war
- Old working government, and capital in Washington D.C.
- One of the most well none nurses during the war
- Lincoln announced he would send what to the troops at Ft. Sumter
- 4 a.m. on April 12, 1861, South Carolina fired upon Fort Sumter and
- December 1860, John J Crittiden, offered confessions to the south, guaranteed slavery in the south, failed
- Republican, no expansion on slavery, protective tariffs, and internal improvements
- Minnesota,Illinois, New York , and Maine are all examples of
- Hurt by northern blockades, hard time getting loans, raised excise taxes, sold government bonds
- Northern Democrat, enforced the fugitive slave law, and allowed territories to vote on practice of slavery
- What states joined the Union after the Civil War began?
- December 20, 1860, seceded form union, first state to do so
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? - AND - Ultimately, why was it written?
- Brigham Young founded (started) the state of _____
- The US gained ______ as a result of the Mexican War.
- Benjamin Franklin was pivotal in negotiating what 2 things? (One as the Ambassador to France & the other as an active American founding father)
- California became a state in ______
- Which Mexican commander won the Battle of the Alamo?