Even though he just wanted to hurt the British and French economically, he hurt the Americans more. ... This became known as the Black Hawk War, in which the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Black Hawk, defended their ancestral land whilst being forced out. ... Jackson's Indian Removal Act caused this war to occur, so he was the cause of these Indian deaths. ... This entire event of destroying the national bank was called the Bank War. This wasn't a bloody war, but a political one. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Union men mainly believed the war was to emancipate the slaves. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along c...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ... The south did a lot of business with England and France. ...

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Starting with the Indians and ending with the Filipinos. ... As a quickly established power in the beginning after such battles as the French and Indian and Mexican war the United States earned respect. ... During this time period the U.S. offered regulations such as these to the Indians and the Mexicans. ... The Indians, were promised land, set aside to be theirs, the Mexicans freedom and liberation. ... Much like the case of Indian removal the Indian interfered with Manifest Destiny and the Filipinos interfering with the power involved with the connection of the two great oceans. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Union men mainly believed the war was to emancipate the slaves. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along c...

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). After more than a decade of vile treatment by whites, Indians of California and Nevada agreed to settle on reservations (Document 46). Though the barbarous mistreatment of Indians had died somewhat, racial discrimination was still evident in the segregation of Indian land and true American land. ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... The West was not only a destiny of economic opportunity, but also ...

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Important people of the civil war The civil war (1861-1865) took more American lives than any other war in history. ... The Civil War is also known as the War Between the States and the War of Secession. ... The war ended four years later. ... He also looked to correct injustices that were lived by American Indians. ... McClellan was called "Young Napoleon," named after the famous French military genius Napoleon. ...

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In 1784, she joined her husband at his diplomatic post in Paris, and recorded the differences and aspects of French culture in relation to the American. ... With the Civil War, Southerners belittled her as a deserter to her origin while those loyal to the Union spread talks of her disloyalty. ... And while Abigail Adams passed the very year that Mary Lincoln was born, the lives of these very different women show some very similar concerns such as marriage, struggle for female education, meaning of childbirth, the role of religion and also the role that these two women were to assume as first l...

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