Ch. 12 1) Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farms to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was: To escape farm life and earn wages 2) The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition: Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers 3)In the pre-industrial system‚ a boy who wanted to learn a trade Entered a formal apprenticeship system 4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was Patriarchal 5) If you lived in Boston
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Reality of war challenged southern sense of individuality with strict military discipline and deprivation. Political: * Centralization of political power * This time of crisis witnessed a dramatic increase in the executive power in the Confederacy. Davis imposed martial law and suspended habeas corpus * The first conscription law (draft)
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allowed for an increase in Union war resources. Sherman ’s march to the sea was extremely demoralizing to the South ’s will to continue fighting. Sherman and his men carved a sixty-mile wide swath of destruction in the Confederacy ’s heartland. Later‚ this hurt the Confederacy greatly‚ but up to this point the South was at its high tide and thinking a great push into the North would break the Union ’s will to fight and a peace treaty would come soon. The Confederate army had been doing what
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The History of President Lincoln’s Assassination President Lincoln’s Assassination President Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination took place on Good Friday‚ April 14‚ 1865 at the Ford Theater‚ in Washington D.C.‚ while they were watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln‚ a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone‚ and Rathbone ’s fiancée‚ Clara Harris. After the play was in progress‚ a figure with a drawn derringer pistol stepped into the presidential
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| Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States of America and he help office during the Civil War. During the Civil War‚ the North and South split into two sides – the Union in the north led by president Lincoln and the Confederacy in the south led by president Davis. Originally‚ the Civil War was not an attempt by Lincoln to abolish slavery and emancipate the slaves‚ but to preserve and protect the Union‚ but later Lincoln decided that ending slavery was a key step necessary
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Civil War Casualties: The Numbers The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their separation from the North and formed the Confederate States of America. The ACW is widley refered to Americnas bloodiest conflict and more Americans both Union and Confederate‚ ended up as causalities than in any other war in U.S. history.Casualties were those soldiers who were
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October 12th‚ 1492: Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas Upon his landing‚ Henretta stated that: “Believing that he had reached Asia — the Indies‚ in fifteenth-century parlance — Columbus called the native inhabitants Indians and the islands the West Indies.” (1) The term “Indians” became synonymous with describing Native Americans‚ and continues to this day. Columbus actually landed in the Bahamas. His discovery prompted further exploration of the Americas‚ sending the race of colonization
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general than Lee. The civil war was not a fun battle. Many people died during that war. During the 1800’s the southern portion of the United States broke off and became its own separate country. They became the Confederate states of America or the Confederacy. The U.S. and the C.S. were very different countries. The C.S. heavily practiced slavery while slavery was banned in the U.S. The U.S. was more industry based while the C.S. was based on agriculture. The U.S. wanted the C.S. to rejoin with it. This
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Confederate forces killed or wounded‚ 16‚000 Union casualties‚ and 18‚000 Confederate casualties‚ the Battle of Chickamauga was known as the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War‚ closely following the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union and the Confederacy were fighting for the two railroad lines that ran through Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. On September 19th and 20th‚ 1863‚ the Battle of Chickamauga was fought in the counties of Catoosa and Walker‚ Georgia. Chickamauga got many different nicknames after
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Fourteenth Amendment‚ which forbade anyone from holding public office who had sworn allegiance to the United States and then sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. However‚ his restrictions were removed at the suggestion of the Freedmen’s Bureau when he aided a dying former slave after the War. He was the first person who had sided with the Confederacy to serve in the U.S. Senate. Issues in his senatorial career included the Arlington Memorial debate‚ as he found the initial proposal to relocate
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