Another example would be how Alabama's Leroy Pope Walker summarized that Republican rule would cost southerners first, "our property," "then our liberties," and finally "the sacred purity of our daughters" (79). ... One speech that Dew wrote about that showed pro slavery attitude was by Stephen Fowler Hale who was Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky. ... These speeches that Dew wrote about demonstrated how primary documents can be used to discover the truth about history and reveal the misconceptions of the modern- day opinion that the civil war was really about slavery. ...

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It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... The seven states of the lower South (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) formed themselves into the Confederate States of America. ...

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Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida were all readmitted to the Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ...

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The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... The only way that southern slaveholders maintained their status as such throughout the course of American history was through the societal indoctrination of certain religious, economic and moral principles which, the slaveholders argued, justified slavery. ... An editor o...

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He was endowed with splendid wisdom, illustrious dignity, consciousness and insight that shaped and changed the American history. ... In February the people of the south had themselves a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, they declared a new constitution, set up a government and elected Jefferson Davis as president for the southern states and they called it the confederate states of America. ... Two days after General Robert Lee surrendered Lincoln addressed the nation from the front of the white house he described to the people how his heart is acing and glad in the same time, while John Wil...

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