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    these people decide that they should establish a great peace and so they did‚ but they needed men to run this confederacy and help make it a good place.These men would be the best of the best and help make new rules when needed. Lastly‚ they would be crowed with deer antlers when named and giving names that were greater and more pure in power. This is how the creation of the Confederacy took

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    could to help free the slaves. Although Abraham Lincoln did issue the emancipation proclamation‚ it only freed slaves on paper but he did not go fight the war to actually free the slaves. He was pushed by the logic of winning the war against the confederacy‚ so he issued the emancipation proclamation. The Union victory led to the eradication of slavery and gave wealth to the United States. The second american revolution was accomplished with the sacrifices of millions of men and women. And if

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    The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Was assassination the goal? The general agreement is that the first goal of the conspirators had been to kidnap the President. A few attempts to kidnap Lincoln fell through‚ and then the Confederacy surrendered to the North. Booth’s thoughts turned to killing the President. Up until recent times‚ there was a great deal of theory as to the existence of an abduction plot. Some people felt it might be used to excuse the hanged conspirators. Even the judge

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    the cause of the Confederacy seceding from the Union‚ or the South seceding from the North‚ was because they felt their way of life‚ which was based on slavery‚ was under threat from the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Progressing medicine on the battlefield saved lives‚ but lost most. The under trained surgeons were not ready for the hordes of diseased and injured. Most “doctors” were physicians‚ and 500 of 11‚000 Northern physicians had ever performed surgery. As for the Confederacy‚ only 27 of 3

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    of the destruction of the Iroquois.” This statement may seem strange as the Iroquois League‚ or Iroquois Confederacy as it later became known in 1722 with the addition of the Tuscarora‚ was one the most dominate Indian presences in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. It originally consisted of the Five Nations of the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga and Seneca. The confederacy referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee‚ or the People of the Longhouse with each tribe playing an important

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    Draftees: North and South The Economic Stresses of War Friday‚ September 27‚ 2013 The one defect of the South was that its own states could secede. Some state troops refused to serve outside their borders.President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy often had disputes with his own congress. Davis’s task as President proved to be beyond his powers. Lincoln and the North enjoyed a long-established government that was financially stable and fully recognized at home and abroad. Due to the fact

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    had less than six weeks of food supply left. President Lincoln turned down all efforts to settle the differences with the Confederacy by the Confederate Government. The Confederate Government decided that it couldn’t tolerate a foreign force in its territory any longer. President Lincoln believed that conflict was inevitable so he came up with a plan to trick the confederacy to attack first. On April 8‚ 1861‚ Lincoln notified Gov. Francis Pickens of South Carolina that he was going to attempt to

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    Medical Corp. consisted of less than one hundred people on staff. This included the United States Surgeon General‚ thirty-six surgeons‚ and many assistant surgeons. Soon after the war started twelve of the thirty-six surgeons left for the Confederacy. Though the Confederacy had few surgeons they kept up the pace very well. It was because the surgeons knew very little about diseases that two out of every three soldiers that died in the war died from disease. Most soldiers died from diseases such as

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    conquest. Conquest can make someone feel powerful and cause them to be in control. In Guns‚ Germs and Steel Diamond says‚ “The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities‚ which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces”(Diamond 289-290). The Cherokee confederacy was formed because of the power that external forces used to threaten

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    Cited: Barth‚ F. (1961). Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Kkamseh Confederacy. Oslo‚ Norway: Oslo University Press. Johnson‚ R. (1996). Basseri. Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Mark Mortz‚ J. G. (2011). Cross Cultural. Cross Culture‚ 286-317.

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