free‚ sued but was told he was not a citizen and therefor a slave 1859 John Brown Raid- tried to arm slaves‚ Harpers farry 1860 Election of 1860- Lincoln was elected‚ south breaks off 1861 Fort Sumter- Confederates fire on Fort Sumter‚ start of Civil war‚ no one was killed July 21st‚ 1861 1st Battle of Bull run- North loses‚ Stonewall Jackson gets his name 1862 Farragut Captures New Orleans- Union wins Sept. 17 1862 Battle of Antietam- Union wins Sept 22‚ 1862 Emancipation Proclamation- Lincoln
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by equally radical Republicans intent on changing the ways of the South. One of the primary goals of Reconstruction was to integrate blacks into Southern society and readmit the states that seceded‚ but only after blacks had won full political and civil equality (Wormser‚ “Reconstruction”). This‚ however‚ did not align with the idea that most Southern leaders at the time held‚ and there was an obvious backlash to the Republican
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Harriet Tubman: Civil War * Harriet Tubman was a cook‚ a nurse‚ a spy‚ scout‚ and a soldier for the Union in the Civil war. * She got involved in the Civil War because she wanted freedom for all slaves‚ and was already involved in their escape and their enlisting in the resistance. * Mary people joined her cause to spy for the union because they believed in what she was doing even at the risk of being killed / hanged. The Military Raid * Harriet Tubman was also the first
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The Civil War broke out in 1861‚ and lasted until 1865 .This drastic five year quarrel put the North and South against each other; the North became known as the Union while the South was referred to as a Confederacy. Before the war‚ the main disagreement was either to promote slavery or abolish it‚ so as a result‚ a war stirred up. Slavery was a time of harsh plantation work for colored people‚ while they were owned by rich whites. The actions of slavery were very cruel‚ so the Union had a valid
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The Civil War divided the nation into two parts and was a war fought between the northern states and the southern states. The north was called the union and the south was called the Confederacy. There were quite a few reasons why the south broke away and why both halfs started to fight. The reasons for the Civil War were political‚ social and economic‚ things such as the Election of 1860‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ cotton production and slavery were big contributions to the war. The Election of 1860 was
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slavery had a critical role in bringing on the Civil War‚ which took place in the United States from 1861 to 1865. Disagreements on the status of slaves between northern and southern regions‚ the question of whether laws over slavery were determined under federal law or according to state‚ accompanied by contradictions in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were at the heart of the crisis that inevitably led to the American Civil War. In the United States‚ African Americans had been
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Life at a prison camp during the American Civil War was not an easy one. It is estimated that nearly 56‚000 men died in various camps throughout the country (Hall). That casualty rate is much greater than that of any battle. This high mortality rate was not on purpose but mostly caused by carelessness‚ ignorance‚ and lack of supplies. James Robertson‚ a history professor at Virginia Tech‚ stated “Intent and malice were never intended.” In the Civil War‚ two out of every three soldier deaths was caused
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United States was justified in going to war with Mexico. The Mexican-American War was fought mostly because of Texas’s border confusion. When Texas won its independence from Mexico‚ they stated that the "great big river of the south" would be the border‚ but because of Texan’s vagueness‚ Mexicans thought the Nueces River was the border‚ while the U.S. and Texas claims they were talking about the Rio Grande. The reasons America was justified in going to war with Mexico is the fact that Mexico had
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Although the American Civil War mainly occurred because of slavery‚ the fact is that slavery had a lot to do with economic and social issues. By the year of 1860‚ the North and the South was developed into extremely different sections. There was opposing social‚ economic‚ and political points of view‚ starting back into colonial periods‚ and it slowly drove the two regions farther in separate directions. The two sections tried to force its point of view on the nation as a whole. Even though
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In the lead up to the Civil War tensions between the North and the South had risen to extreme levels. This was due to the constant arguments about states rights versus the powers of the federal government‚ a big factor being slavery. Although‚ not starting out as a war for freedom‚ with Abraham Lincoln’s election the South felt as though it was an attack on their society as a whole. Four months later a majority of the southern states seceded from the Union creating the Confederacy. However‚ the Union
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