Lincoln took this as an act of war and immediately called for 75,000 volunteer to serve for three months. ... Lincoln's strategy was to apply pressure to several points at once, pinning down the defenders and preventing them from helping one another. I think Lincoln had good ideas and strategies to win the war, like freeing the slaves and doing things his way. ...
Republicans were able to override Johnson's vetoes of both the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the first Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act said that all African Americans to be U.S. citizens and also attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the southern states" Black Codes. ... (Amsco- Pg. 294) There was also the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which basically took a drastic step of placing the South under military occupation. ... By 1875, after passing the Civil Rights Act of 1875, moderate and conservative Republicans became frustrated with trying to reform the South...
The passage of the Voting Rights Act caused two simultaneous and related shifts in the Democratic Party's demographics. ... The Black brothers argue that the south is now ground zero for strategies to control congress within party politics. ...
The Fugitive Slave Act also involved in the problems because as it was stated, escaped black slaves had to be returned to their owners in the South. ... His strategy was to destroy as many military posts as possible in Maryland and Pennsylvania while the Union defend Washington D.C. ...
He suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which gave troops the right to search people's homes with out permission; this was a very controversial step in Lincoln's war strategy. ... Lincoln's wife Mary Todd was known to act a senile at times, and after the death of her sons, Abraham said that she never really acted the same again. ...
