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Michael Kadish
1/19/96
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1) Elizabeth Blackwell: Helped organize the United States Sanitary Commission to provide medical supplies and assistance to the armies in the field during the Civil War. Led to further female movements and indirectly led to the Red Cross
2) Clara Barton: Shortly after the war turned nursing into a noble profession
3) William H. Seward: Lincoln's secretary of state, who in 1865 prepared to have one million troops attack Mexico due to Napoleon's foreign invasion.
4) Edwin M. Stanton: Lincoln's Secretary of War who said of Lincoln after his death, "Now he belongs to the ages." After the death, he lead to Johnson's impeachment.
5) Jefferson Davis: After being Tyler's Secretary of State, was declared the president of the Confederacy. Intended for his country to be based on staes' rights.
6) Charles Francis Adams: Only man to be a son and a grandson of former presidents. Due to his hard stance as foreign minister to Canada, he avoided a large scale war with Britain, that with the combination of the confederacy would have destroyed the union.
7) Napoleon III: With America having concerns above it in Canada, and below it in the Confederacy, this French Emperor sent troops to attack Mexico in 1863. Was finally stopped by Steward in 1867.
8) Maximillion: Puppet of Napoleon III, was in- stalled in Mexico in 1863, killed before a Mexican firing squad in 1867
9) Morrill Tariff Act: Actimposed in 1861 after southern senators left to increase tariffs to the level of the Walker Tariff of 1846. This raised funds from the war. Became a symbol of the republican party.
10) National Banking Act: Authorized in 1863, this allowed banks to join the National Bank system and buying government bonds, and using them for money.
11) Trent Affair: Brought England into the conflict. In late 1861, A union battle ship stopped an English mail ship and imprisoned two Confederate diplomats. This brought Redcoats into Canada, and nearly led to a war with both Britain and the Confederacy.
12) Laird Rams: Two confederatewarships designed to destroy wooden ship with an iron ram and loads of weapons created in 1863. Later disassembled by the British after a warning from the Union.
13) Draft Riots: Started mostly in NYC in 1863 by anti- black Irishmen who were violently opposed to risking their lives for the trade of slavery.
14) Fort Sumter: The location of the first "battle" of the Civil War. The union had a fort in Charleston, with only one hundred men. Knowing they did not stand a chance when violence would break out, Lincoln sent provision, not reinforcements, but the fort was still shelled for thirty-two hours. Narry a single casualty resulted.
1) After the south left in 1861, the country was overrun with abolitionists. With few arguing against slavery (outside NYC) the country started in a walk, but had to eventually run down the hill to war.
2) Thanks a great deal to Seward's hard nosed policy, we were able to get the British out from Canada. Further Similar policies led Britain to disassemble the dangerous ram ships the built for the south. 1 after southern senators left to increase tariffs to the level of the Walker Tariff