Civil War Facts to Know

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Civil WarFacts to Know 9, 10, 11

• By
• Lindsey Smith
• Courtney Swain
• Brittany Wilson
• And
• Danielle Boyd

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North South Efforts to Achieve Diplomatic
Objectives The Outcomes of These Objectives
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Foreign Relations

• The Confederacy's principal goals in foreign
  policy was to obtain diplomatic recognition and
  material assistance from European countries.
• The Union's main diplomatic objective was to
  prevent this.

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North South Fight for British Aid

• South failed to achieve diplomatic recognition,
  but foreign assistance and sympathy still
  contributed to the Confederate war effort.
• Both the Union and the Confederacy focused their
  diplomatic activities primarily on Britain, the
  world's foremost industrial and naval power whose
  lead other nations would follow.

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North Blockades South

• On April 19, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln
  proclaimed a blockade of Confederate ports.
• By 1863 the Union navy had built up its force
  sufficiently to make this blockade effective,
  seriously curtailing the export of cotton and the
  imports of war materials the agricultural South
  needed to supply its armies
• Moreover, many working-class leaders and their
  middle-class allies in Britain sympathized with
  the Union
• After the Emancipation Proclamation, it became
  even less likely that Britain would side with the
  South.

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Southerners Try to Economically Blackmail Britain

• In 1861 the blockade was a small issue
• The south pursued one of their objectives by
  placing an embargo on cotton exports, reasoning
  from what has been termed "the King Cotton
  illusion.
• Textiles were the most important industry in
  Britain and 80 percent of Britain's raw cotton
  came from their fields.
• Southerners believed that withholding the 1861
  crop from export they would compel Britain to
  intervene and break the blockade.
• The last crops were so large they had enough to
  last them until 1862. The confederacy took up
  some of the slack in arms trades and shipping for
  the slowdown caused in textiles.
• Overall the Souths plan failed.

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Britain Sides With Confederates

• Confederate diplomats tried to convince British
  leaders that the Union blockade in 1861-1862 was
  illegitimate under international law.
• As a naval power, Britain relied on blockades in
  time of war and did not want to create an
  anti-blockade precedent that might boomerang on
  the Royal Navy in a future conflict.
• The British government recognized the Northern
  blockade as legal. British blockade-runners
  seized and confiscated by the Union navy could
  expect no help from their government.
• Britain eventually decided to support the Union.

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The reasons why the North was ultimately
victorious and why the South was defeated
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Why the North won

• The North was very economically powerful, so they
  were able to equip their troops.
• Using the U.S. Navy, the Union was able to use
  the Anaconda Plan. This plan enabled them to
  offset the Souths production capabilities.
• All the North had to do was, in the words of
  American Civil War historian Shelby Foote, take
  the other arm from out behind their back...

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Could the South have won?

• No, the South probably couldn't have won.
• The North had a much greater supply of men to
  recruit for the war.
• The North was much more advanced when it came to
  munitions, and had a greater supply.
• Without direct support from a major European
  power, it would have been very difficult for them
  to win.

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The financial and human costs of the Civil War,
the issues that were resolved and the issues left
unresolved at the wars end.
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The Numbers
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Unresolved Issues-The Freed Blacks

• The freed blacks new lives were unprotected.
• Their constitutional rights were not utilized.
• They were disrespected and still treated like
  slaves.
• The south changed the names of slaves to tenant
  farmers and/or sharecroppers.
• They worked for extremely low wages. (This was
  merely a substitution for slavery)

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Unresolved Issues-States Rights

• States rights were still undetermined.
• No one agreed on how much power the states should
  have.

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Unresolved Issues-Entering the Confederacy into
the Union

• Its admittance into the union was debated.
• -Lincolns Plan-10 Plan-
• -Wade Davis Bill-Required 50 of the number of
  1860 voters to take an iron- clad oath of
  allegiance to the union.--VETOED
• -Johnsons Plan-10-Amnesty upon simple oath
  to all except Confederate civil and military
  officers and those with property of 20,000.

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Finances of the War

• Panic of 1873
• Greenback Money caused inflationary crisis
• The North had many more resources and more money
  than the South

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Resolved Issues

• Since the Union had won the war, the North and
  the South were joined back together as a whole
  country.