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- In the summer of 1862, Congress introduced a militia law that requires states to draft people for military service called
- What did Congress pass in 1862 they created a national currency and allow the government to issue paper money?
- Small, first vessel the south used to smell goods pass the union navy
- First African-American regiment officially organized in the north
- Left her job and patent office tuner soldiers on the battlefield
- A series of attacks on McClellan's army to Robert E Lee.
- I heart biscuit made of wheat flour in by union soldiers
- Cause bring to threaten war against the United States
- Gave Lincoln authority to call state militias, which included drafted troops, into federal service
- Her work led to the creation of the United States sanitary commission
- Early on April 6, 1862, confederate forces launched a surprise attack on the ground troops who are camped out about 20 miles north of Corinth, Mississippi, nearest small church named
- In April 1862, New Orleans, the Sal's largest city in the center of the country, was in union hands due to daring decision made by
- Hey name the Republicans called the peace Democrats
- Oppose the war and called for reuniting the states through negotiation rather than force
- Before 1860, the South had no major facilities for making gun powder and only one factory capable for producing cannons, the
- The wearing down of one side by the others through exhaustion of soldiers and resources
- Many of the English colonies were founded by groups seeking religious freedom-- such as the Pilgrims and Puritans who founded WHAT COLONY?
- These were devout Puritans who believed that they must separate from the Church of England. They arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower.
- THIS DOCUMENT -- drawn up by the Pilgrim Separatists -- set up the basis for self-government and majority rule in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- New England men met together to make decisions for their community at THESE, which was a very democratic method of governing.