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• What advantages did each side have at the start
  of the Civil War?
• This Day in History
• March 27, 1775- Thomas Jefferson is elected to
  the Continental Congress to represent Virginia.
• March 27, 1829- President Andrew Jackson defies
  Washington society matrons and appoints
  scandal-plagued John Eaton as his secretary of
  war.
• March 27, 1836- In a disastrous setback for the
  Texans resisting Santa Annas dictatorial regime,
  the Mexican army defeats and executes 417 Texas
  revolutionaries at Goliad.
• March 27, 1865- President Abraham Lincoln meets
  with Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William
  T. Sherman meet at City Point, Virginia, to plot
  the last stages of the Civil War.
• March 27, 1939- The University of Oregon defeats
  The Ohio State University 4633 on this day in
  1939 to win the first-ever NCAA mens basketball
  tournament.
• March 27, 1958- Soviet First Secretary Nikita
  Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet
  premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph
  Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSRs two top
  offices.

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The South Secedes
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Raid on Harpers Ferry

• John Brown tried to start uprising in 1858.
• Planned to arm local slaves by attacking federal
  arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
• John Browns raid began on night of October 16,
  1859, when he and his men took over arsenal.
• Brown was convicted of treason, murder, and
  conspiracy, and was hanged.
• Many northerners mourned his death, but
  criticized methods.
• Most southern whites felt threatened, and
  newspapers started to call for leaving the Union
  in order to remain safe.

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Secession

• Lincoln insisted he would not change slavery in
  South, but would not let it expand.
• South Carolina legislature met to consider
  secession, formally withdrawing from the Union.
• South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860,
  believing it had the right because it had
  voluntarily joined the Union.

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The Confederacy

• Early in 1861 Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
  Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas joined South
  Carolina to form Confederate States of America.
• Jefferson Davis of MS was elected Confederate
  president.
• Senator John Crittenden proposed a series of
  constitutional amendments (Crittendens
  Compromise) hoping to satisfy the South by
  protecting slavery.
• Lincoln believed there could be no compromise
  about the extension of slavery, and the plan was
  rejected.

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The Confederacy

• On Feb. 8, 1861 the seceding states formed the
  CSA.
• Each state was independent, guaranteed slavery,
  banned tariffs, and limited president to single 6
  year term.
• Jefferson Davis was elected president.

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The War Begins

• On April 12, 1861 the Confederates bombarded
  Union troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
  when Lincoln tried to resupply.
• After Fort Sumter the upper south seceded.
• Lincoln declared martial law in the border states.

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Assignment

• Chapter 16 Review
• Pg. 446, 1 3
• Pg. 447, 1-10
• Turn into tray when finished, or complete for
  homework.