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Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
James Longstreet
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Southern food supplies
Cotton warehouses
Transportation networks, especially railroads
Industrial centers (cities with factories)
Southern civilians
1861
1864
1865
1917
Georgia
Kentucky
Virginia
Arkansas
Limiting slavery in the west, citizenship for freed slaves, voting for women
Ending slavery in every state, citizenship for former slaves, voting for all men over 21 years of age.
Paying slave owners to end slavery, pardoning southern rebels, funding reconstruction
Ending slavery in every state, adding the income tax, right to vote for all men
It trapped him in debt that he could not repay.
Only black farmers could be sharecroppers.
The landowner made the tenant farmer sell the crops on his own time.
The soil was usually very low quality.
Diseases like yellow fever that soldiers contracted during long marches.
Exuberant excitement and displays of patriotism at the beginning of a war.
Determination after several years of fighting.
The suppression of civil rights by the government during wartime.
No southern states voted for Lincoln, showing that the north had more political power.
Abraham Lincoln vowed to limit the spread of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln vowed to immediately end slavery once elected.