three hot summer days in July in the humble market town of Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania. Gettysburg was the confrontation between two major American Cultures the North and the South. The cause of the Civil war was the clash of these two cultures. The Confederacy
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colonists arrived‚ merged together into the Iroquois Confederacy around 1450 in an effort to get rid of fighting between tribes and to create a larger and more peaceful Indian nation. Furthermore‚ the tribes intended to create a form of representative democracy to ensure all of the tribes that joined were happy with the changes that would have to be made to keep the peace among the groups.¬ In an effort to achieve all of this‚ the confederacy drafted a constitution that detailed the various roles
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using African-Americans only as indentured servants‚ the growers and farmers eventually began to rely on African-Americans and Native Americans as a free source of labor. Iroquois Confederacy: The joining of six sects of the Iroquoian family and of the Eastern Woodlands area. By the 1700s‚ the tribes in the confederacy were the Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ Oneida‚ Mohawk‚ Seneca‚ and Tuscarors. By combining they were a stronger force against the colonists. Native American Relations in the first settlements:
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After the Civil War and Reconstruction ceased‚ the South’s Lost Cause was introduced to the southern United States by ex-confederates. A very politically influenced movement‚ the Lost Cause‚ while building a legacy for the controversial Redemption‚ was subject to backlash for it’s false interpretations of what slavery was like as well as how the Civil War went down. Even with all of its misinterpretations and falsities‚ however‚ the Lost Cause influenced the memories of many on the Civil War‚ Redemption
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arose to become a war. The North first started the Total War used by U.S. Army Philip Sheridan. Sheridan made a move to capture the South in the tactic plan. During the war‚ Sheridan rose to the command of the Union’s cavalry and by the time the Confederacy surrendered‚ he saw action in Mississippi‚ Tennessee‚ and Kentucky and in Virginia‚ where his campaign through the Shenandoah Valley lays the important source of the Confederate supplies. At Petersburg he won an important victory that halted Robert
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In the years leading up to the Civil War‚ the United States began to undergo significant changes‚ changes that would eventually lead to the secession of southern states‚ creation of the confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War. During these years‚ the nation was in the midst of a transformation from an underdeveloped nation of farmers and frontiersmen into an urbanized economic powerhouse. As the industrialized North and the agricultural South grew apart‚ acute differences in political‚ economic
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"Honest Abe" is known today as a great and influential person who is often idolized in American politics. Lincoln is almost always voted the best or near-best President among historians (Wilson‚ 1). He helped mend the rift between the Union and the Confederacy‚ reuniting and reconstructing America and leading the way for his successors to twist this land of the free and home of the brave into the inspiration it is today. From his log cabin childhood to death‚ Abraham Lincoln was a great man whose legend
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Lincoln knew that to keep the European influence out of the American Civil War‚ the Union needed to look competent to foreign entities by stopping the southern rebellion. Unfortunately‚ this didn’t start well when the Union suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in 1861‚ causing Lincoln to feel a sense of “humility” and “embarrassment” towards European nations (Peraino‚ 2013). As a recommendation from the military‚ Secretary of State‚ Henry Seward‚ and Lincoln approved the Anaconda
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“The Red Scarf Girl” “Many friends have asked me why‚ after all I went through‚ I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: we were all brainwashed.”p.276 The book “The Red Scarf Girl” is a memoir written by author Ji Li Jiang recounting what it was like to grow up during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution‚ taking place in China from 1965 to 1968. During this time‚ a political leader named Mao Zedong convinced the people of China that the
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Bibliography: 1) Berkow‚ Ira. “Salary Cap The Same as A Dunce Cap.” The New York Times 15 July 1994. 2) Baseball-Reference. 20 Oct. 2008 <http://www.baseball-reference.com> 3) Caraballo‚ Christopher A. "Baseball Needs A Salary Cap." American Chronicle. 16 Dec. 2006. <http:/www.americanchronicle.com/articles/18079>
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