At the end of the civil war roughly four million slaves were granted their freedom. However some argue that even though they were technically free they still had great discrimination against them. They could not function like a regular‚ free man because of the little rights they held. Even with new laws they could not use these rights and it actually became more dangerous to be free than before. They were restricted from using their rights in every way possible and barely any of the perpetrators
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Clara Barton By: Caleb Eldrenkamp. Did you know that there were roughly 3‚300 union nurses in the Civil war?Clara Barton was one of them.Through out her childhood Clara Barton was a very intelligent and bright child.Clara Barton was born on December 25th‚1821.Clara Barton was the fifth child in her family including David‚Dolly‚Sarah‚and Stephen.Her parents believed in equal rights and taught her about equal rights.In her youth she was a girl who loved being outside.She learned many things at a young
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In this reading there were numerous intriguing events that occurred. The four things that I found most interesting was The Emancipation Proclamation‚ Reconstruction Era‚ The Depression Year and the need for slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1st‚ 1863 it declared salves free in certain areas during the civil war. Kinn expressed that “it was a military move‚ giving the South four months to stop rebelling”. Which is a smart move that Lincoln took just to spare the union by undermining
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Clara Barton By: Caleb Eldrenkamp. Did you know that there were roughly 3‚300 union nurses during the Civil War? Clara Barton was one of them. Throughout her childhood‚ Clara Barton was a very intelligent and bright child. Clara was born on December 25th‚ 1821. She was the fifth child in her family‚ including David‚ Dolly‚ Sarah‚ and Stephen. Her parents believed in equal rights and taught her about equal rights. In her youth‚ she was a girl who loved being outside. She learned many things at a
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Use your textbook or map book to complete the following activity. Slave States / Free States - Choose two colors (colored pencils) and shade all the slaves states as of 1820 one color and all the free states as of 1820 another color. Make a dark solid line (black) to show the Missouri Compromise line. Use the same colors that you used in 1 to shade in the territories where slavery was allowed or prohibited. (Slave State Allowed Territory / Free State Prohibited Territory) Create a key in the
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freedom meant to the enslaved people meant an end to the whip‚ to the sale of family members‚ and to the white masters. The South already had slaves way before the Civil War. The North had a belief in abolitionism‚ while the South opposed that idea. The economic reasons led to cultural differences‚ which caused the start of the Civil War. The South saw it as necessary to have slaves‚ while the North thought it was wrong to own a human being. There were many ways people responded to the struggle for
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The Civil War had many causes‚ some of them were long term causes and some of them were immediate causes. The long term causes were the problems that seemed to never be solved between the North and South. Slavery for instance was a long term problem because it was never completely solved; however continuous compromises were made between both sides‚ but the disagreements would not disappear. On the other hand‚ the immediate causes were the problems in which guaranteed that the North and South would
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5 Main Events Leading Up to the Civil War 1. The Mexican War Ended - 1848 When the Mexican War ended‚ America was ceded western territories. This caused a problem on whether these new territories would be admitted as slave states or free states. To deal with this‚ Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. The ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery or not was called popular sovereignty.
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Since the start of the war‚ the Union devised a strategy. They planned to blockade the South and drive on the Confederate capital. Even though organizing it took about four years‚ it was the single strategy that won the war. Lincoln and Grant cooperated well. Once Lincoln found a general capable of carrying out his determined strategy‚ Lincoln and Grant had to ensure that the military objectives taking place in the war corresponded with the correct political objectives of the war. Surprisingly‚ Lincoln
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The Minie ball greatly influenced the Civil War‚ causing many people to die‚ and changes in many other areas. Like all the wars before it‚ during the Civil War many large technological breakthroughs occurred. One of the biggest‚ and most influential changes for personal weapons was the evolution from the smoothbore muskets to rifles‚ and even more so‚ the Minie ball that allowed the rifling to realistically be used in a battle situation. The bullets also had another plus: causing huge damage to anyone
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