and psychological tactics. The KKK was created by a group of confederate soldiers because the blacks helped the north win the war. Which is also why it was so hard to make the south conform to new laws that the government passed. As Mary Daly once said‚ “I had explained that women asking for equality in a church would be the same as a black man asking the KKK for equality”. Well‚ at least laws that had to do with civil rights for blacks. Except of course jim crow laws. In fact‚ jim crow laws allowing
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experience we must understand why the war begin. There is a common miss belief that the war was started because of slavery. Now slavery did play a big role but‚ “The Civil War began as a southern war for Confederate independence and a northern war to defeat the Confederate rebellion and restore the Union. At the outset‚ neither side thought that the war would last very long or eventually lead to the destruction of slavery. The Confederacy was founded to protect slavery.”[1] The Union was willing to accept
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There are several things that play into why the Civil War started‚ although the overall burning issue was slavery. Many people argue that the Civil War started over states rights. But when you look at it the states rights were to abolish or protect slavery. This problem seemed to arise as the north became more industrialized and the south stayed predominately agricultural based. As the north began to look towards a city life people began to work together as one. In the south cotton had become a very
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Many people today often associate the term Civil War with the north and south’s quarrel over the freedom for slaves. However‚ civil rights for slaves was only one aspect of many larger issues between the North and South. In fact‚ the name "Civil War" refers to the many civilians that acted as soldiers‚ and not to any civil rights that became law. Many other social classes like immigrants‚ Native Americans‚ and especially women‚ also didn’t have the same rights as white men. Once the 13th and 15th
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Civil War The reason of the Civil War starting is because when Abraham Lincoln became the president it cause about seven Southern countries to secede from the union and they formed a thing called “Confederate States”. So after that there was many other reasons of the why the Civil War happened but some of the reasons are the idea of slavery‚ tariffs‚ trading and states rights. So‚ one of the reason of the civil war is the Missouri Compromise and it was extending to the California border and they
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point on‚ the Union and the Confederacy were set in stone. This was the root of the bloody Civil War. Millions of Americans enlisted in the army to support their beliefs and half of the nation. Soldiers faced harsh conditions not only on the battlefield‚ but also in their camps. The daily life of a Union soldier consisted of hours of drills‚ minimal food rations‚ and harsh conditions while fighting to end slavery. The Union soldiers shared many similarities. To enlist as a soldier the boy had to
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Cold war was a state of political and military tension after world WW2 between powers in western bloc and eastern bloc. The westerns bloc’s military is so much weaker than the new rising eastern bloc country because of the serious wound from ww2. It seems the western bloc country got no chance to win. But the cold war ends with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union
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me‚ the Union would have eventually won the war. The Union had a lot of power and a better army. They had better plans to invade the land such as the ports they took‚ the support and the congress passing laws such as the Emancipation Proclamation. The North invaded multiple ports giving the North access to the Confederate both by land and water. The North would have soon been able to take all the land instead making them surrender. The North also had an advantage by having more men fight in the war
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from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp Grolier. (2011). History of Women ’s Suffrage. Retrieved from http://teacher.scholastic.com/ activities/suffrage/history.htm History.com. (2011). The Fight for Women ’s Suffrage. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/ topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage Tindall‚ G.B.‚ & Shi‚ D.E. (2010). America A Narrative History (8th ed.). New York‚ NY: W.W.. Norton & Company.
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Question: How did technology give an advantage to the Union in the Civil War? 1. Battery D‚ 2nd U.S. Artillery‚ at Fredericksburg‚ VA 2. Battle in action at Fredericksburg‚ Va 3. A company of the 6th Maine Infantry on parade after the battle of Fredericksbu rg 4. Aquia Creek and the Fredericksburg Railroad‚ with a construction corps at work 5.
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