Instead‚ they expected the freed slaves to work the cotton fields as laborers‚ so when the ex-Confederates regained the tracts of 40 acres so proudly‚ yet briefly owned by ex-slaves there was no compensation plan. The North benefited from the cotton trade and was required to fulfill the needs of the textile industry.(Dattel‚”Northern Racism Helped Doom
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1861. It was a war fought between the South and the North. The south was known as the Confederate and the North as the Union. The cause of the war was‚ because the south and the north had different views on slavery and state rights. The war ended with The South’s surrender. The Union had several advantages over the South which led to their win in 1865. The first advantage the Union had over the Confederate was numbers. “The Federals were very inferior in numbers” (Paris‚ 2009‚ book 4). “The
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MISSION COMMAND ANALYSIS: COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF LITTLE ROUND TOP In late June 1863‚ Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia passed through western Maryland and invaded Pennsylvania. General Lee believed that by invading the North‚ he could draw the Union Army of the Potomac away from their defenses and force them to come after him. He also assumed the people of the North would be so demoralized if the Union were to lose another major battle‚ especially
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North America during the Civil War era was as common as having a house pet today. Slaves were being sold like cattle to work on the cotton fields for the farmers mainly in the Southern Region of the United States. In the North‚ the economy was based on factories and wages compared to the South who had large plantations which needed the slaves to pick cotton. These different economies caused divisions in the United States. Soon the states started separating themselves creating Southern States which
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Abstract In early December 1862‚ the Union Army of the Potomac had massed on the northern bank of the Rappahannock River as it was in position to strike the Confederate capital of Richmond‚ Virginia. The Union also position themselves to cut off the Confederate Army’s main supply route for the import and export of goods in the south. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia confronted the Union Army’s attempted strike on the south side of the Rappahannock by occupying the high ground overlooking the
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_______________________________________________________________________ The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction The Myth: At the end of the Civil War‚ in which Southerners had fought valiantly against the brutal invasion forces of the North in an effort to protect local institutions and states rights‚ the South lay broken and destitute. Rather than trying to reunite the country as peacefully and quickly as possible‚ the victorious North set out on a deliberate policy of rape‚ pillage‚ plunder‚ and vindictive punishment. The South was invaded
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Carolina. The South seceded from the Union after the Election of 1860. They felt that they had no representation in the government once Lincoln became the President. The Southern territories consolidated and formed the “Confederate States of America” . To wholly transform the states in the Confederacy‚ the South captured Fort Sumter which was being controlled by Robert Anderson‚ a former slave owner. This was the first act of aggression in the Civil War. The North did not want to begin a Civil War
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telegraph and the ironclad warship. One of these inventions was the camera‚ created in the 1830s. The first war to be photographed was the 1853-1856 Crimean War‚ but it would only be a short 5 years before tensions between the Northern and Southern states led to the outbreak of war. The new advent of war photography would display the horrors of this war to the american public. One of the pioneers of this new form of photography would go down in history‚ as Alexander Gardner. Alexander Gardner was
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Chapter 13: A House Divided (1840-1861) Thomas Crawford designed the capitol building with lady liberty on top. This was an issue for many ppl: showed how nearly everything was in question now. Fruits of Manifest Destiny Continental Expansion Ppl started moving west The Mormons’ Trek Went to modern-day Utah: founded by Joseph Smith (polygamy) National boundaries meant little to those who moved West The Mexican Frontier: New Mexico and California Mexico achieved independence from Spain in
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Sectionalism caused The Civil War‚ and it was a huge problem in the US. One side protecting the opinion that every man is created equal‚ and one protecting the idea of slavery‚ and how blacks 3are a less powerful race. This was definitely a darker time in US history‚ with Lincoln being president during it all. Sectionalism is to blame for this‚ with the North and the South constantly growing apart every minute in the 1800s. Sectionalism led to Economic and Political conflicts in the mid-1800s
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