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However, by the Civil War, weapons had longer ranges and were more accurate than they had been in Napoleon’s day. Navy: A branch of the military using ships to conduct warfare. During the Civil War, “blue water” ships cruised the oceans and “brown water” boats floated up and down the rivers. See article »
- The Bonnie Blue Flag
Civil War Music: The Bonnie Blue Flag. Harry McCarthy...
- Battle of Hampton Roads, VA
The Merrimack’s machinery is restored, and her wooden...
- Port Hudson
In May 1863, Major General Nathaniel F. Banks turned his...
- General Orders No. 1
After almost four years in the United States army Lt. Col....
- American Battlefield Trust
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- Petersburg
Chris Calkins. Ulysses S. Grant Library of Congress It is...
- John L. Worden
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- Fredericksburg
Before she gained fame for her classic novel Little Women,...
- The Bonnie Blue Flag
- Abe Lincoln's Developing Views on Slavery
- First Years of The Civil War
- From Preliminary to Formal Emancipation Proclamation
- Impact of The Emancipation Proclamation
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Sectional tensions over slavery in the United States had been building for decades by 1854, when Congress’ passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened territory that had previously been closed to slavery according to the Missouri Compromise. Opposition to the act led to the formation of the Republican Partyin 1854 and revived the failing political ca...
At the outset of that conflict, Lincoln insisted that the war was not about freeing enslaved people in the South but about preserving the Union. Four border slave states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri) remained on the Union side, and many others in the North also opposed abolition. When one of his generals, John C. Frémont, put Missouri...
At the same time however, Lincoln’s cabinet was mulling over the document that would become the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln had written a draft in late July, and while some of his advisers supported it, others were anxious. William H. Seward, Lincoln’s secretary of state, urged the president to wait to announce emancipation until the Union w...
As Lincoln’s decree applied only to territory outside the realm of his control, the Emancipation Proclamation had little actual effect on freeing any of the nation’s enslaved people. But its symbolic power was enormous, as it announced freedom for enslaved people as one of the North’s war aims, alongside preserving the Union itself. It also had pra...
The Emancipation Proclamation, National Archives 10 Facts: The Emancipation Proclamation, American Battlefield Trust Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010) Allen C. Guelzo, “Emancipation and the Quest for Freedom.” National Park Service.
Background factors in the run up to the Civil War were partisan politics, abolitionism, nullification versus secession, Southern and Northern nationalism, expansionism, economics, and modernization in the antebellum period. As a panel of historians emphasized in 2011, "while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that ...
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- Causes of the Civil War. In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions.
- Outbreak of the Civil War (1861) Even as Lincoln took office in March 1861, Confederate forces threatened the federal-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
- The Civil War in Virginia (1862) George B. McClellan—who replaced the aging General Winfield Scott as supreme commander of the Union Army after the first months of the war—was beloved by his troops, but his reluctance to advance frustrated Lincoln.
- After the Emancipation Proclamation (1863-4) Lincoln had used the occasion of the Union victory at Antietam to issue a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all enslaved people in the rebellious states after January 1, 1863.
Nov 12, 2013 · Share to Google Classroom Added by 662 Educators. Fact #1: The Civil War was fought between the Northern and the Southern states from 1861-1865. The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861.
- The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a...
- Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Kentucky. He worked as a shopkeeper and a lawyer before entering politics in the 1840s. Alarmed by his an...
- Native Americans have lived in North America for more than 12,000 years. Around 400 years ago, people from the Netherlands, England, Spain, and Fra...
- Slavery was the law of the land, north and south, until the early 19th century. It was concentrated in the southern states, where slaves were used...
- When the southern states seceded from the Union, there were still a few forts on southern soil that were manned by United States soldiers. Rather t...
- At the beginning of the Civil War, 22 million people lived in the North and 9 million people (4 million of whom were slaves) lived in the South. Th...
- The Civil War devastated the Confederate states. The presence of vast armies throughout the countryside meant that livestock, crops, and other stap...
- After four years of conflict, the last major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States in April of 1865. The war bankrupted the South, le...
- The southern states seceded to prevent the abolition of slavery. During the war, Abraham Lincoln freed some slaves and allowed freedmen to join the...
- The United States government has identified 384 battles that had a significant impact on the larger war. Many of these battlefields have been devel...
Oct 29, 2009 · Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States ...
Nov 11, 2024 · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Prelude to war How a tax increase helped spark the American Civil War In 1828 the U.S. Congress passed a tariff that increased the rates on imports into the United States to as much as 50 percent.
