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    What caused the civil war in 1642? A civil war is when a war breaks out in the same country. The reason why the civil war broke out in England in 1642 was because the king and parliament could not agree on anything. In the political side of things the war broke out because of short and long term things. In the short term that parliament wanted to control England’s army but the king said he should because England’s monarch usually controlled the army. The other short term reason was‚ in 1642

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    Once the African Americans were freed they began to enjoy many of the simple things in life that we take for granted today‚ (Shultz. n.d.). They could go out and buy a dog if they wanted. They could hold meetings without having to worry about white people supervising them. They tried to become landowners. Many of them also moved around a lot‚ sometimes just to get away from the plantations where they once served as slaves‚ and others moved to looked for relatives and loved ones who had been sold

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    Introduction 1. Background From 1861 to 1865 the United States was embroiled in an internal conflict that divided the country. This conflict fundamentally changed the life of people of both the South and the North. It upheld the unification of the state and abolished the slavery. Lasting impact had been made on American society. For decades after the war‚ Northern Republicans "waved the bloody shirt‚" brought up wartime casualties as an electoral tactic. Memories of the war and Reconstruction held the

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    Civil War/Reconstruction Test Matching: In the space provided‚ write the term identified by each description. Choose your answers from the list below. |Fort Sumter Appomattox Courthouse Battle of Antietam Freedman’s Bureau | |Border states Siege of Vicksburg Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant | |Scalawags carpetbaggers Robert E. Lee

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    There is a clear difference in European’s way of life and the Africans way of life. When the Europeans went into the African tribes‚ the native people have trouble in having to choose between the two because the European way of life looks down on the African way of life. In Between Tides‚ the main character‚ Pierre‚ is torn between his traditional community‚ the Catholic Church‚ the government‚ and the rebels. Each of these communities has different views and Pierre is having trouble fitting into

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    The Civil War had a huge affect on the United States of America. As a result of the war‚ three new amendments were added to the Constitution. These were the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments. These amendments are known as “The Civil War Amendments” or the “Reconstruction Amendments.” The 13th amendment has two sections to it. The first section states that slavery is to be abolished unless it is used as punishment for a crime. Section two states that “Congress shall have power to enforce this article

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    What were the central issues that Reconstruction sought to deal with? • They were issues with reestablishing the government under the union. President Lincoln issued the “Ten Percent Plan” the plan entailed that 10% of the state voters took the oath pledging their loyalty to the union‚ then they would be able to establish a new state government and apply for federal recognition. What did the freed people hope to achieve? What were their goals did they achieve them? • African-American slaves were

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    country in every war that we as a people have ever fought. In order to properly thank them for their heroic effort‚ I as a Hispanic Caucasian must give credit where credit is due. In order to properly do so‚ I must begin with the contributions of “Black America” beginning with the American Revolution and continue up until the World War II. Make no mistake blacks made contributions well past World War II‚ but in the interest of time and accuracy I must stay within the confines of our earlier history

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    Consequences of the Korean War * The Korean War never ended‚ and they are still under an armistice to this day. The Korean War is technically not over; all that’s keeping the two sides from going to war again is a cease-fire agreement. * The Korean War brought the US and Russia further apart‚ and the fear of communism would later lead the US to throw itself into Vietnam‚ to avoid another North Korea. * It also brought China into conflict with the US‚ bringing bad feelings between the

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    who believed strongly about how things should change for the better regarding the position of African Americans within the period of 1865-1970. Even though Radical Republicans had attempted to improve the quality of life for blacks by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and 1875‚ the Ku Klux Klan Act‚ as well as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments‚ whites in the South refused to have it any other way than that blacks remained second class citizens and to be kept in their place. The black codes

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