Nearly 20‚000 women worked directly for the Union war effort (“Women in the Civil War”). Many of these women worked close or on the battlefield taking on positions like nurses‚ spies‚ and even soldiers. Being so close to the battlefield required a whole lot of courage. Women were brave enough to be so close to all of the fighting and to care for everyone at the same time. Inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale and her fellow nurses in the Crimean War‚ they tried to find a way to work on the front
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After the American Civil War in 1865 the United States entered a period called the Era of Reconstruction. The Civil War left the South in shambles‚ economically‚ infrastructurally‚ and socially. Therefore‚ the responsibility of repairing the South fell on the United States government. The physical damage of the war was the first to be addressed. The government was not only repairing physical damage‚ but economic damage‚ too. The Civil War destroyed the South’s economy‚ with many plantations and farms
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Politics had the biggest impact of all the PEGS on the road to Civil War. To start off‚ In Trigger Events of the Civil War it states‚”The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court‚ where the justices found that‚ as a slave‚ Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights to recognitions afforded to a human being.”This means that‚ Dred Scott couldn’t get freedom even though he was in free land where slavery was illegal but he was still a slave. In addition‚ in Lincoln
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wonder what exactly they do and ponder the message that the artist was trying to convey through it. Almost all wars have been commemorated in this way‚ but many wonder if it is the best way to commemorate those who served‚ and the monuments made for the Civil War are not any different. Throughout this essay‚ I will describe a monument that I have created that I believe best represents the Civil War as a whole‚ and proves that monuments are the correct way to memorialize the people who were involved in
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surface‚ the Civil War appears to be a heroic battle that the north fought against slavery and immorality. But it’s not so simple. The Civil War was a complicated war fought for many reasons. It was fought mainly because of the difference between the northern and southern economic vision for America‚ but also because poor Americans everywhere generally felt ideologically attacked‚ and because the south felt frustrated‚ as they were politically underrepresented. The north and south went to war mainly because
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ways they did it in the past. Cowboys led their cattle more than 25 miles a day. Wars with Native Americans started by land and cattle. Agriculture and cattle was how you got money. Another big part of Texas is its oil. Before oil was found in Texas‚ there was only one oil rig in the whole world. Scientists believed that there was no oil in Texas. In 1900‚ a team was hired to drill for oil. Oil in Texas had finally been discovered. On January 10‚ 1901‚ the drill reached 1‚139 feet deep‚ and workers
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SLAVERY (THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR) US History to 1877 – HIST101 American Military University‚ 26 April 2014 Many factors led to the occurrence of the American Civil War. The key issues were slavery‚ different political ideologies‚ right of the people‚ and economic reasons. However‚ the key reasons that lead to the Civil War was slavery. Slavery is touted as the main cause of the conflict between the states in the northern part and those in the south
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toward the Civil war and now it was here. In 1861‚ South Carolina open fired at Fort Sumter ( an army base that still belonged to the United States.) Abraham Lincoln declared Marshall law and put the military in charge and he stopped the Habeas Corpus law which had given people the right to know what they were being arrested for. The Union had a greater advantage during this war because they had more people and more resources. However the South had some advantages as well. They had been preparing
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Freedoms often change‚ but must they be regained from time to time? There have been multiple occurrences throughout history with leaders‚ forms of government‚ and groups who try to limit freedom. There are also those great people who have put forth an immense amount of work to gain the rights and freedoms that should be theirs to savor. Things like this have happened from early egyptian rulers‚ all the way to the dictators and people of a “different breed”. It happened during the holocaust with
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There are numerous long term and short term events that caused the Civil War to occur. From the long term impacts of slavery and the Missouri Compromise to the short term effects of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Bleeding Kansas‚ the Civil War was caused mainly by one significant step. Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott had an impact on the civil war‚ it was not as significant as the election of 1860. The election was the most important event because it lead to the secession of South Carolina and also
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