Presidency Chart – Abraham Lincoln (16^th) (1861 - 1865)

Election of 1860 Republican Platform Southern Democrats Douglas Democrats Constitutional Union Party	Prominent Members of Lincoln’s Cabinet
	Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Major Items during Lincoln’s Presidency
Fort Sumter (April, 1861) Lincoln’s search for a general Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and its impact Homestead Act (1862) Morrill Land Grant Act (1862) Transcontinental Railroad started
The Confederate Homefront
The Union Homefront

Advantages/Disadvantages
United States	Confederacy
Significance of Major Battles (Who won and what effect did the battle have on the course of the war – don’t write major summaries)
1^st Bull Run/Manassas Merrimac v. Monitor Antietam	Vicksburg Gettysburg Atlanta and March to the Sea
Military Strategy	Diplomatic Events during the war
United States – Anaconda Plan Confederacy – King Cotton Diplomacy	Trent Affair The South’s search for allies Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address	Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Election of 1864	Lincoln’s 10% Reconstruction Plan Assassination (April 14, 1865)

How did each side mobilize for the war?
United States Enrollment Act (1863) Draft Riots (July, 1863) Medical care – Sanitary Commission Financing the war Legal Tender Act Role of Black soldiers	Confederacy Conscription Act (1862) and the Confederate draft policies Medical Care Arming their military Financing the war
Civil Rights during the war
United States Draft and Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Ex Parte Merryman Political opposition to the war – Peace Democrats or Copperheads: Clement Vallandigham Confederacy Resistance to Jefferson Davis Suspension of habeas corpus
Surrender at Appomattox