Fearful that the ambulances, with their supplies, would be captured, King ordered the carriages to return to Washington.1 Those first assigned to remove the wounded were regimental musicians or soldiers who were not good fighters. ... Tripler, became the prominent ambulance used in the Civil War. ... Sanitation Disease had always been the foremost enemy of armies at war. Deplorable sanitation and rising rates of diseases throughout the Civil War, demanded immediate attention. An estimated 620,000 men died during the Civil War. ...

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The civil war did not start as a crusade to end the institution of slavery. ... The proclamation stated that all slaves in states still in rebellion by January 1, 1863 shall be free. ... "The Emancipation Proclamation was a pronouncement to the British "indeed, to the world "that the North was fighting against the institution of slavery. ... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sent a message to the world that if you support the South, you support slavery. ... As he said: " a necessary measure of war - was one of the reasons for emancipation. ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. ... Though these tensions caused discomfort between the two sides, the issue of slavery would push both sides to war in 1861. ... In 1860, the South was still predominantly agricultural, highly dependent of exports to a world market. ... In fact, she says, "cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very ...

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The Civil War had just ended when the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States decided that Article XIII Section 1 should be apart of the Constitution. ... Worried that the Civil War would have been in vain with this sudden change in Southern politics and the lack of government intervention, Congress convened to reestablish laws and protect the civil liberties of black men and women that were fought for during the Civil War. ... Another source of contention that helped create change in the United States after the Civil War was the immigration boom. ... According to PBS, ...

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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. ... In 1838 Douglass tried again and successfully escaped to New York City posing as a black sailor, he explained, "A new world had opened upon me"1. ... 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...

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We cannot say that we are southerners because the term has a connotation of Civil War resentment. ... The South became the North of the Civil War. ... Key Largo has been described as the dive capital of the world while Key West is better known for the tropical atmosphere but shares the same economy of tourism. ... It gave Cubans, mostly prisoners of war, an opportunity to flee the dictatorship of Fidel Castro at the end of the eighty's. ... Regional divisions, political conflicts and limited financial resources have shaped the racial diversity of Florida (Colburn and deHaven-Smith ...

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The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles and prejudices. ... The change of views and lifestyle from Virginia to Pennsylvania was like going to the other side of the world . ... Going into the war, each side had several distinctive and essential advantages. ... The battle began on July 1, 1863 when Confederate General Lee and Union General George Meade, who had been maneuvering around each other in Pennsylvania, met by chance in Gettysburg . ... The Confederacy displayed far superior war tactics, but several key mistakes kept the battle close. ...

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African and Native groups also held similar ideas about animal spirits, the guiding presence of ancestors, oral traditions, a living world, and extended family relationships" (IndiVisible). Today, the world only thinks of slavery as it pertains to Europeans selling or holding captive African Americans. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the s...

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However, blacks were not alone; Native Americans experienced even worse situations; they were totally excluded from the Anglo world. ... On their way to the Indian territory, nearly 1/5 of the population died from exposure, sickness and starvation. ... Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden P...

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"Article 1" The first article "Lincoln, Race, and the Spirit of '76", by Lucas E. ... He also highlighted African-Americans' natural rights as a way to prevent the spread of slavery, and thereby save what he would later call "the last best hope of earth".1 In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Lincoln highlights the importance of public opinion and the impact of opinion-makers. ... Slavery was wrong and had to be done away with, but it had to take time so there would not be a race war. ... Based on Young America's bias concerning the source of l...

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Douglass's devotion to abolitionism led him to confer with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and after the war he fought for the rights of women and African-Americans alike. ... In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... Although, th...

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