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- 101: The Civil War
- The Civil War During both the civil war and civil war reconstruction time periods, there were many changes going on in the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation, as well as legislation such as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, was causing a ...
- 102: Development of The Civil War
- Development of The Civil War After the Constitution was adopted by all of the States in 1789, uniting the States into one nation, differences between the States had been worked out through compromises. By 1861 these differences between the Northern States (which included the Mid-Western and Western States) and the Southern States had become so great that compromise would no longer work. Thus, a conflict started within our nation that was called the Civil War. For more than 30 years arguments between the North and South had been growing. One of these quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This kind ...
- 103: Civil War
- By: Joey Phillips Q: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of slavery? The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they ... the Norths view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to succeed from the Union. Basically the North favored ...
- 104: Causes Of The Civil War
- The most contributing factor to the coming of the Civil War was slavery, an economic issue to the South and a moral issue to the North. Slavery was the driving force for the Southern slave states to leave the Union. The Civil War was ultimately caused by the secession of the Southern states from the Union. Slavery had caused a great division in our country by the 1850's. The abolitionists of the North proclaimed that ...
- 105: Hitler
- ... school in the village of Fischlham. ?HITLER'S BOYHOOD? At age six , the days of doing nothing and sitting around stopped when he entered School. His father also retired on a pension from the Austrian Civil Service about the same time. This meant more supervision and discipline under his teachers and also his father, Alias. His father at the time was 58 and had spent most of his life in the Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria. Adolf's mother, Klara, was more ... to be easy now and liked drawing. He had a photographic Memory and could probably draw just about anything he seen. One day Adolf found some of his fathers' books. He found one about the War of 1870-1871 between the Germans and Indians. He became obsessed with this book. He thought this was a great event. Hitler said he then became interested in anything to do with war. He ...
- 106: Causes Of The Civil War 3
- Q: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of slavery? The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they ... the Norths view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to succeed from the Union. Basically the North favored ...
- 107: Music And The Civil War
- Music And The Civil War Throughout time music has been a form of communication between people of all ages. Franklin County, PA and Augusta County, VA were no exception. The musical community thrived in these two counties giving a number of public performances. Before the war musical performances were local social gatherings for townspeople. During the war, these events took on a function in addition to entertainment. They became fundraisers to support the soldiers and their families. Augusta County newspaper ...
- 108: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... under the direction of colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw was only twenty six years old when he was put in charge of the regiment. He came from a strong abolitionist family in Boston before the war. Before gaining his position as the colonel of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, Shaw served in the Seventh New York National guard and the Second Massachusetts infantry. In February 1863, Shaw was apointed by Massachusetts govoner John A. Andrew to lead the first all black Union regiment, the Fighting Fifty-Fourth, into the Civil War. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1. Within weeks, on January 26, the Secretary of War authorized Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts to raise the first African American corps in the North. ...
- 109: Civil War - The Myth Of The Lost Cause
- ... revival was the memory of Stonewall Jackson, closely followed by Robert E. Lee (who would rise to the prominent position following his death in 1870). Other generals of the Confederacy who had died during the war followed, as did those who would pass on later. D.H. Hill, a friend of Longstreet published LAND WE LOVE, a magazine devoted to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to ... year became the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed its name to the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE and together with a later periodical, SOUTHERN BIVOUAC kept the memory of the War alive and fresh in the public mind. Filled with poems and stories of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Hill was Stonewall Jacksons brother in law and he filled the magazine ... and marriage to virtually all the prominent families of Virginia he helped enshrine the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and symbols of the LOST CAUSE. Cookes impressive literary output polarized Southern perceptions of the War transforming the stigma of defeat into a badge of honour that Confederate veterans could wear proudly. His portrayal of the War as a wonderful adventure, in which participation was an honour. When Lee died ...
- 110: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- The American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Reconstruction period that followed were the bloodiest chapters of American history to date. Brother fought brother as the population was split along sectional lines. The issue of slavery divided the nation ... fell into chaos. John Brown, an infamous and rebellious abolitionist, killed five pro-slavery activists in 1856 in retaliation for the murder of five abolitionists. This "Pottawatomie Massacre" further heightened a feeling of an impending war over slavery. The peace between abolitionists and slaveowners was not helped by three events which occurred in 1857. One was an economic "panic" which threw support to the newly formed Republican party. The Republicans ...
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