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| | American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bitter sectional conflict between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, formed of eleven southern states' governments which moved to secede from the Union after the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. | | | One of the reasons that the U.S. Civil War wore on as long as it did and the battles were so fierce was that most important generals on both sides had formerly served in the United States Army—some, including Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, during the Mexican-American War between 1846 and 1848. | | | The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, politics, disagreements over the scope of States' rights versus federal power, expansionism, sectionalism, economics, modernization, and competing nationalism of the Antebellum period. |
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| | Civil war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the United States was one of the wealthiest and most democratic countries in the world at the time of its bloody civil war. | | | In the United States, and in American-dominated sources, the term 'the civil war' almost always means the American Civil War, with other civil wars noted or inferred from context. | | | See list of civil wars for individual examples. |
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| | Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During the American Civil War, Loyalists to the United States living in the Border States and Confederate States were termed Unionists. | | | Since the Civil War, the term has been a widely used synonym for the Northern side of the conflict, and has increasingly lost the more subtle historical connotations. | | | Map of the division of the states during the Civil War. |
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| | Civil war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the United States was one of the wealthiest and most democratic countries in the world at the time of its bloody civil war. | | | In the United States, and in American-dominated sources, the term 'the civil war' almost always means the American Civil War, with other civil wars noted or inferred from context. | | | See list of civil wars for individual examples. |
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| | Civil War Activities Using the Internet |
| | Identify which states were northern and which were southern during the Civil War. | | | Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War. | | | Color and label a map of the United States to show the north-south division of the country. |
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| | Civil War Potpourri Page |
| | Military Division Of The United States After The Civil War | | | Discusses the disposition of the freed slaves (including the Freedmen's Bureau) of the Civil War. | | | This combined with the Civil War Military Telegraph Service (located elsewhere on this page) will give a clear idea of how most of the communications were accomplished. |
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| | The History Place - U.S. Civil War 1861-1865 |
| | The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. | | | Robert E. Lee, son of a Revolutionary War hero, and a 25 year distinguished veteran of the United States Army and former Superintendent of West Point, is offered command of the Union Army. | | | - Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, states the war is..."a People's contest...a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..." The Congress authorizes a call for 500,000 men. |
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| | Civil War |
| | - In the United States, the Civil War was between the Confederacy, or southern states, and the Union, or northern states. | | | The purpose of this unit is to provide a frame for the students to use in evaluating both points of view in the Civil War. | | | The U.S. Civil War, also called the War between the States, lasted from 1861 to 1865. |
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| | Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia |
| | Incorporating the most recent scholarship as well as excerpts from diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary source documents, this Encyclopedia encompasses the wartime experiences of famous and lesser-known women of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds throughout the United States during the Civil War era. | | | Includes helpful reference tools such as internal cross-references, suggestions for further reading, an extensive bibliography, glossary, and a detailed map of the United States and Confederate States of America | | | Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia is the first A-Z reference work to offer a panoramic presentation of the contributions, achievements, and personal stories of American women during one of the most turbulent eras of the nation's history. |
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| | OLD NEWS Index - 1995-2005 |
| | Keywords: United States Civil War, Raphael Semmes 1862 | | | Keywords: Gettysburg, United States Civil War, Joshua Chamberlain 1863 | | | Keywords: Mark Twain, United States Civil War 1885 |
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| | Civil War - MSN Encarta |
| | American Civil War, a military conflict between the United States of America (the Union) and the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865. | | | The American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence. | | | The election of Abraham Lincoln as president was viewed by the South as a threat to slavery and ignited the war. |
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| | English Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the monarchy restored with the consent of Parliament, the civil wars effectively set England and Scotland on course to become a parliamentary democracy. | | | In addition, Parliament was not a united body; at one point in the nine years of war, there were more members of Parliament and Lords in the King's Oxford Parliament than there were at Westminster. | | | The first (1642–1645) and the second (1648–1649) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–1651) was between supporters of Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. |
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| | EH.Net Encyclopedia: Labor Unions in the United States |
| | The major domestic political issue of the post-war United States, civil rights, was troubling for many unions because of the racist provisions in their own practice. | | | Unions begin to decline in the US It was after World War II that American Exceptionalism became most valid, when the United States emerged as the advanced, capitalist democracy with the weakest labor movement. | | | In the United States, state intervention was fatal for labor because government and employers usually united to crush labor radicalism. |
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| | Facts about The Civil War |
| | The United States Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American History, claiming more lives than The American Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, The War against Switzerland, The War of 1812, and the Vietnam War combined. | | | The war began as the result of a dispute between certain southern states and certain northern slates regarding slavery and the taxation of cotton exports. | | | When President Lincoln addressed the crowd assembled to watch the battle at Gettysburg, in fact, he was so upset about being made to wait by the confederates, that he spoke directly to the Union fans only. |
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| | American Civil War |
| | It was eventually decided to charge General Robert Lee, James Seddon, the Secretary of War, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States". | | | The government was now seriously concerned about the poor performance of the Union Army and Salmon Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War) and vice president Hannibal Hamlin, who were all strong opponents of slavery, led the campaign to have George McClellan sacked. | | | Conflict grew in the middle of 19th century between the northern and southern states over the issue of slavery. |
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| | The Gold-Demonetization Hoax |
| | We would find it in the fact that gold-demonetization was just a hoax, designed to cover up the fact of default on gold obligations and so to save the face of the United States. | | | Yet gold has successfully furnished the unit of value for thousands of years to many a flourishing civilization, including our own, and when it was removed it had to be done by travesty, trickery, and police force. | | | Gold hoards are so huge that they constitute a high multiple of annual output at present rates of production. |
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| | Historic Supreme Court Cases |
| | The Supreme Court of the United States said that education is a property interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and any suspension requires prior notice and a hearing. | | | The Supreme Court of the United States upheldthe Illinois law because the movement end storage of grain were considered to be closely related to public interest. | | | The Supreme Court of the United States held the Illinois statute to be invalid and that the power to regulate interstate railroad rates is a federal power which belongs exclusively to Congress and, therefore, cannot be exercised by individual states. |
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| | International Civil Aviation Organization -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sets the standards for marking the airfields in the United States. | | | Flight training program that conducts courses leading to the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority and European Joint Aviation Authority examinations for aircraft pilots. | | | Established in 1947 by the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1944), which had been signed by 52 states three years earlier in Chicago, the ICAO is dedicated to developing safe and efficient international air transport for peaceful purposes and ensuring a reasonable opportunity for... |
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| | Vive le Canada - Monument created for N.S. burial ground of 1812 U.S. PoWs |
| | The United States, despite its written philosophy of the equality of men, had to have a second civil war, in which it killed more of its own people than were ever killed in any foreign war it took part in, before slavery could be abolished. | | | Canadas Parliament, her Common Law and Civil Service derive from the United Kingdom. | | | The UN operates due to the way the United States set it up to operate because at the time it was to their advantage and has done everything in its power to prevent change for the better because it was in its best interests to do so, not in anyone elses interests. |
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| | Encyclopedia: United States Democratic Party |
| | The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy... | | | The United States Whig Party was a political party of the United States. | | | The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and governorships. |
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| | LandisAMA |
| | The link between gold and the reserve currency was severed for the convenience of the United States. | | | Wherever you are, you must use as currency whatever passes for legal tender within that jurisdiction. | | | It is not a thing, but an abstraction, a category of information created by the state that embodies a claim on society. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas Letter: Military lawyers defend civil liberties |
| | Robert Hodierne, an editor of publications for and about the American military, considers alleged infringements of civil liberties in the United States that are a result of security measures in President Bush's war against terror. | | | Right now in the United States there is an epic power struggle going on between the judiciary and the executive branch. | | | They argued that civil courts have the jurisdiction to hear challenges to the tribunals. |
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| | Workers World Nov. 14, 2002: LGBT groups take stand against war |
| | In the news release, Faisal Alam stated, "The Bush administration continues to violate domestic and international law by its continued aggression in the name of a 'war on terrorism.' We must stand united as a progressive LGBT community and speak out for peace and justice. | | | The news release listed LGBT and allied organizations that have issued or will soon issue statements "opposing the Bush administration's (current and past) war plans and its continued infringement on civil rights and civil liberties since Sept. 11." | | | Those supporting the news conference and anti-war organizing include the Out Against the War Coalition, the Fairness Campaign of Louisville, Ky., African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change, Queers Against the War, Queers for Racial and Economic Justice, the Queer Economic Justice Network and the Lavender Green Caucus of the U.S. Green Party. |
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| | Civil War PreservationArticles Select |
| | One of the chief longarms of the Civil War for both sides was the P-53 Enfield rifle-musket. | | | Purchasing agents from both the United States government and from individual Southern states, made their way to England so as to secure contracts from manufacturers and distributors. | | | Also, items scheduled for export to the United States or the Confederate States were usually of inferior quality compared to items that would have been issued to the exporting countrys military. |
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| | Supreme Court Cases of the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A number of cases were tried before the Supreme Court of the United States during the period of the American Civil War. | | | A writ of certiorari brought the case to the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Salmon Chase. | | | This case is an example of a U.S. President ignoring a court's ruling on the grounds of necessity. |
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| | "Tomorrow It Might Be You" |
| | The deterioration of civil liberties in the United States due to the country's state of war has reached the point where any citizen could find him or herself deprived of his or her fundamental rights. | | | Washington, USA, June 21, 2002 - The damage to civil liberties in the United States is reaching alarming levels. | | | "In the United States, as opposed to the many tyrannical societies we've known and are coming to know, the government is not permitted to hustle its citizens into prison without offering a legally sound reason for their incarceration, and without giving the accused an opportunity to challenge their loss of liberty. |
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| | United States - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S. America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. | | | The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over State law. | | | The contiguous part of the United States (i.e. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America |
| | After the admission of Maine as a free state, almost to the time of the Civil War, slave states and free states were admitted to the Union alternately. | | | The judicial power is commensurate with the legislative, and extends to all cases, in law and equity, arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and the treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority. | | | In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state. |
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