A state legislator in Maryland‚ John Merryman‚ was arrested for attempting to stop Union troops from going from Baltimore to Washington. His attorney immediately attempted to use the writ of habeas corpus. This was so the federal court could examine the charges
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available for officers‚ and poor war strategies by both sides. Camps were scattered across the country in both the North and the South. The best known of the Union camps were; Fortress Monroe‚ Virginia; Ohio State Penitentiary‚ Ohio and point Lookout‚ Maryland. The better known of the Confederate camps were; Danville‚ Virginia; Libby Prison‚ Richmond‚ Virginia and Andersonville‚ Georgia. Conditions where many inmates died would send chills down the spine of anyone in this day and age. The camps ended
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There had already been extreme tension between northern and southern states in the United States of America‚ but things really exploded in the spring of 1861. The Confederate States of America was formed when the Deep South seceded‚ and shortly afterwards Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the US. On April 12‚ 1861‚ the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. Three days later‚ Lincoln called for 75‚000 troops with a term of just 90 days‚ but he received way more men than
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There has always been a number of circulating myths about the American Civil War. We need to dig deep and find out if these myths are true. Did the South HATE black people? Did Robert E. Lee hate America? Was the civil war all about slavery? Did the South start the civil war? All of these myths are to be revealed. Supposedly the Southern people were the only Americans that enslaved black people. They tortured‚ beat‚ and starved them. According to research‚ a slave in today’s modern world‚ would
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system 4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was Patriarchal 5) If you lived in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807 and had accumulated tremendous amounts of capital‚ it was probably from International shipping 6) The states of the Old Northwest were largely settled by migrants from New England 7)The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included The regulation of work lives by clocks and bells 8) Catherine Beecher’s
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms‚ it will be because we destroyed ourselves” (Lincoln). Lincoln believed in equality for all‚ and was willing to die for his beliefs. On April 14‚ 1865‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ a Confederate sympathizer‚ shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford ’s Theatre in Washington‚ D.C. The assassination of the 16th president may have seemed like a simple process‚ but Booth spent a prolonged amount
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The Civil War began when the Northern and Southern parts of the United States grew along different terms. The South wanted to become an independent nation and remained an economy based on agriculture while the North became more industrialized. When the social‚ economic‚ and political views surfaced‚ it led to disagreements on issues between the North and South. The Civil War was a pivotal event that influenced important historical events that led to the reconstruction of the nation (“The Political
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From 1865 to 1877‚ America faced the daunting task of reconstructing a union tattered by a Civil War. The south after the Civil War was in ruins with many of its major cities completely destroyed‚ its agriculture production at a halt‚ and the slave labor that economically drove the south freed. Moreover‚ millions of freedmen were wondering around the south‚ lost‚ without an education‚ money‚ place to live‚ or knowledge of how to care for themselves outside of their plantation. Furthermore‚ Abraham
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There have been many documents and books written about the Civil War‚ this war also settled disputes betweent the states and gave many blacks their freedom. The origins of the American Civil War are entwined within the complex issues of slavery‚ expansionism‚ sectionalism‚ and political party politics of the Antebellum Period. As territorial expansion forced the United States to confront the question of whether new areas of
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something was different on july 3rd? if the rebels won the day or even had a stalemate they were prepared to send a letter of truce to washington dc... if that letter was meet with a stalemate or victory on union soil the war may have ended with America in 2 pieces.... the union victory at gettysburg is the most logical choice.. The signifigance of the Battle of Gettysburg is the fact that it was a watershed moment in the Civil War. Prior to the battle the southern forces‚ lead by Robert E
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