Hist 1000 1st Edition Lecture 32 Outline of Last Lecture The Role of the Federal Government in Northern Victory: Securing the Political Base- A Northern Route for the Transcontinental Railroad, 1862 and 1864- The Morrill Land Grant Act, 1862- The Homestead Act, 1862The Role of Slavery and Black Agency in Northern Victory- Initial Union Policy toward Slavery: Compensated, Gradual Emancipation and the “White Man’s War”- The Radical Alliance: Slaves Become “Contraband” and The Passage of the Confiscation Acts, 1861, 1862- The Emancipation Proclamation and the Radical Alliance Becomes Union Policy- The Confederate Policy Response to the Emancipation ProclamationOutline of Current Lecture 1. What was the thinking behind in the South that allowed slave owners of 20 or more to be exempt from the war?2. Why did the transcontinental railroad finally get built in the North during the Civil War?3. How did the North adapt without the agricultural support of the South?4. After the South decided to not trade any of their cotton with the north, what stopped them trading with Britain and other countries5. From the balance sheet of war what was the one thing that the south had over the north?Current Lecture1. From the balance sheet of war what was the one thing that the south had over the north?a. Cotton, they felt that this would make them win, because this is what originally made them so powerful and rich in the first place.2. After the South decided to not trade any of their cotton with the north, what stopped them trading with Britain and other countriesa. Cotton Blockade3. How did the North adapt without the agricultural support of the South?a. They modernized and made machines that can farm more efficiently than the South’s slave power could.4. Why did the transcontinental railroad finally get built in the North during the Civil War?These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. When the south was still affiliated they felt that this was unfair if the North got such a useful piece of infrastructure that they never allowed the bill to be passed, but with the south gone the bill was passed immediately.5. What was the thinking behind in the South that allowed slave owners of 20 or more to be exempt from the war?a. They felt that if the owners left that many slaves at home they would revolt anyway because no one could control them. So they let the owners stay back so their slaves would stay in
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