With the Civil War over, there was another war to be fought. This war, although not physical, was a war to reconstruct the union and rebuild the failing economy. ... The Civil War was a defensive war for the south. ... The transcontinental railroad led the way for various new railroad companies to develop. ... Jay Cooker, a banker from Philadelphia, helped to finance the railroads when he took over the transcontinental line, the Northern Pacific; however, Cooke outran his investments and in 1873 his company went bankrupt. ...

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The Civil War and the following period of Reconstruction resulted in change but left many serious problems unsolved. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern part of the United States and the Southern part of the United States over several issues. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. ... Homer Plessy, a black citizen of Louisiana, sued a railroad company for preventing him from entering a railroad car set aside for whites. ... The Civil War was both a victory for the North and a draw for the South b...

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Glory This is one of the most popular Civil War movies of all time. Until the Gettysburg Movie was made, this was the best Civil War movie of all time. ... Carney became the first black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic actions he'd performed while a member of Company C of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment during the assault on Fort Wagner. Colonel Robert Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. ... Yet, as in all civil wars, there was no happy ending. ...

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After his time spent in the Carolinas, Henry and his new company were ordered to report to Fort Caspar (Dakota Territory) by General Grant. Henry Blanchard Freeman and his regiment then participated in the Sioux War. ... In 1876, Henry Blanchard commanded six companies of the 7th infantry in the Sioux Campaign. Although he was in command of six companies, he was under the instruction of General Custer. ... Freeman is a decorated war veteran who has served his just time in various conflicts. ...

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His Grandfather, Uriah York, was an Army Veteran of the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. ... Because of his objections, he was called before his company commander, George Buxton. ... Army, Company G, 328th Infantry, 82d Division. ... With war becoming more likely again in Europe, Alvin began pleading with people to avoid war at all costs. ... Because of his opposition to war, Alvin was hesitant. ...

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The Civil War many problems for both the Union and the Confederacy. ... He was assassinated by a famouse actor who hoped to change the way War was going. ... In 1859 he left Richmond Theater company. ... At the beginnin of the Civil War, Booth decided not to join to Confederate Army. ...

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By the late 1890s, African Americans were stripped of most of their rights they were promised of after the Civil War. ... In 1894, workers boycotted in particular George Foremen grill road works, in rage from Pullman slashed employee wages and raised rents in his company town. ... By the late 1890s, the government and business men seemed to be winning the war with laborers as membership in the Union decrease significantly. ... Credit mobilier was a Pennsylvania holding company that was chartered by congress to build the Union-Pacific railroad. A chief operating officer for both the railroad an...

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McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000. ... RR Donnelley & Sons Company, 2000. ... It was at this meeting that Brown first outlined his plan to Douglass to lead a war to free slaves. ... Brown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery. ...

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He then went to head a streetcar company in St. ... There were many ups and downs throughout the war for Sherman. ... The Secretary of War called his terms for surrender too liberal and the surrender as outlined was disapproved. This started a feud between Sherman and Secretary of War, Stanton. ... Following the war Sherman was promoted to full general and replaced Grant as commander-in-chief. ...

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The protective tariffs sole purpose was to ensure the growth, development, and protection of American companies from overseas competition. ... South Carolina's statesmen believed that the federal government should not be allowed to design tariffs or laws to protect American industries from foreign companies. ... Webster refuted Hayne by pointing out in his speech the importance of the Tariff of 1828 and how nullification would allow states to tear apart the ever so fragile Union and inevitably lead to a Civil War. ... South Carolina's argument for the Nullification theory was th...

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Following the civil war, railroad construction took off at a fast pace. ... More potential customers lead to larger factories and companies, which lead to more jobs being available to people. ... In a way, the railroad system made the United States seem a lot smaller than it was previous to the civil war. ...

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Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... Douglass played a crucial role during the civil war; it was Douglass that convinced Lincoln that the war was more than just the preservation of the Union. ... Nearly two hundred thousand African Americans were estimated to have served the United States Army and Navy by the end of the civil war. ... Frederick Douglass was the President of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, he...

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Many in the north were beginning to question the president's ability to conduct the war effectively. ... At the end of the Civil War, Lincoln promoted peace and charity hoping to bind the war-torn nation by embracing the Confederate rebels rather than punishing them. ... He served in voluntary company for three months during the Black Hawk War as his military service. ... He also calls a special session of Congress to meet on July 4; the CIVIL WAR HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN. ... Meanwhile in Washington, the House of Representatives raises tariffs and taxes to pay for the war....

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The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil War, the U.S had the distinction of being the one of the only countries in the world where slavery was fully legal. Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... The bus company nearly went bankrupt and eventually the Supreme Court stated the bus company laws to be unconstitutional. ... Opposition took many forms,...

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The sniper was so curious because he wanted to know if he was acquainted with the enemy, if he had been in his company before. ... Why did this war ever start? ... What does war solve? ... However, what effect does war make? ... Although the war is technically over, Iraq has started a guerrilla war on the Americans. ...

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No punishment was ever enforced because of the dire need for officers in the now deadly Civil War. ... Ironically, the Civil War not only saved Custer from military persecution but it gave him the chance to prove himself on the battlefield. At the start of the Civil War Custer served in the staff of General George B. ... By the time the war ended, the military had appointed him lieutenant colonel of the seventh cavalry. ... He split his forces into three companies and on June 25, 1876 led a full frontal attack on the Sioux camp. ...

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Harding who managed a large insurance company and also oversaw the financial affairs of his town. ... " (Harris) In 1861 when the Civil war began, Davis's work became even more dramatic by telling the story of the "general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life.... Her realism was reflected in her writing about the corruption of the Civil war and how the South and North were not as different as one may think. Through her Stories of the Civil war short stories Davis framed the Civil War in its true perspective, which grasped what was really happe...

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She was witness to the major events of the war, both beginning and ending. ... In fact, the two families had been friends and hunting companions since the Revolutionary War. ... Mary's diary continues to map significantly the trials and tribulations of the war, both for the north and the south. She also maintains company of the elite of the period. ... By the end of the war she is so fed up with the idea of war that her writing starts to subside. ...

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Abraham Lincoln decided to volunteer for the states militia to fight the Black Hawk war in northern Illinois. They made Abraham Lincoln captain of his company. ... Major Anderson refused and the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, which lead the beginning of the civil war. ... John Wilkes Booth blamed Lincoln for the war and for the South's suffering. ... Robert Lincoln, the oldest son, became a successful lawyer in Chicago and served as secretary of war....

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Radical Republicans in the Congress wanted the South punished for leaving the Union and causing the Civil War. ... They also felt that the role of Commander-in-Chief ended with the wars close. The Republicans were worried that the South and the Democrats would regain the power that they had before the Civil War. ... The elected officials were the same leaders that lead the Southern states into the Civil War and for the duration of the war. ... The companies that were suppose to complete the process did not and the states paid for roads and railroads that they ...

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The regiment left a coherent trail of bodies."" (135) and again when he says, " The orderly sergeant of the youth's company was shot through the cheeks. ... Discuss Crane's view on war. ... Why does he never specifically discuss the war? Quite bluntly Crane views war as stupid. ... We are painted a picture of this type of war by viewing war through the niave eyes of young Henry Fleming. ...

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He frequently sought the company of blacks, for 2 years living in a freedmen's community in North Elba, N.Y. ... But this book did not start the Civil War. ... These three abolitionists John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe had a great influence in the Civil War. ...

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There are many stories that Quaker Oats, the company that produced Aunt Jemima, has been telling over the years about how she became the person with the best pancakes and sold her recipe to them. ... During the Civil War, Union soldiers were threatening to rip Higbee's moustache off his face when Aunt Jemima interceded, offering the northerners pancakes, and the colonel was to escape. ... Even thought this is what the company Quaker oats promoted how the birth of Aunt Jemima happened this is not how it happened at all. ... For the first time in histor...

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No African-American Civil War regiment is more famous than the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. ... I wish we had a hundred thousand colored troops--we would put an end to this war." ... The Fifty-fourth was the first black regular army regiment in the Civil War. ... Carney became the first black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic actions he'd performed while a member of Company C of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment during the assault on Fort Wagner. ... Although the American Civil War is often referred to as the war to free the slaves, it had never oc...

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The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. ... It is civil war, the worst of all wars, that has unveiled its savage and wrinkled front among us. ... The South regarded the move as a declaration of war. ... When the Civil War began, about 22 million people lived in the North. ... As the war progressed, the death toll drastically increased. ...

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