already been around for twenty years‚ but by 1850 there are more than nine thousand miles of track (“Railroads” 1). The eastern side of the United States has already been adopting railroads as their main source of transportation. States such as New York‚ Philadelphia‚ and Michigan have interconnected their railroads they had specifically only in their states. Chicago then joined the new trend having a connection of railroads from the east. These railroads reached all the way to the Mississippi (1). Once
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persistent and in 1860 he was elected president over John C. Brekenridge. This enraged John Wilkes Booth. Booth was born and raised in Bel Air Maryland‚ his parents were upper class slave owners. Although Booth was raised in Maryland‚ a supposed Union state‚ Booth sympathized with the South.
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County‚ Tennessee. This war was fought between Americans. The North side was the Union who believed in keeping the Union intact. The Union was the twenty Free states and five border slave states which supported it. The South side was the Confederacy; this was the people who wanted to form a Confederate Government. The confederacy was the eleven states that ceded from the Union to oppose the decision to abolish slavery. The battle was also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing‚ one of the major battles
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steam that marked the Industrial Revolution was centered in the Northern states‚ and a summary of economics and human resources shows their advantages” (Stanchak 54). The North had a lot of railroads which helped them travel faster. They also had more money and organizations than the South. These advantages boosted them further into victory. Although they did not win‚ the South also had some advantages. Stanchak also states‚ “...the South rudimentary road and rail network made logistics a nightmare
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North and South after the war ended. Lincolns game plan for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan. The Ten-Percent Plan stated that a state in the south could be reaccepted into the Union once ten percent of its voters testified an oath of allegiance to the Union. Delegates were then elected by voters to establish new state governments and draft revised state constitutions. On May 29‚ 1865‚ Johnson issued his own reconstruction
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campaigns‚ without them many men would not have been able to see their position relative to the Confederate Army. The Civil War began when the confederate nation invaded Fort Sumter in South Carolina on
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The battle of Vicksburg took place in Vicksburg‚ Mississippi‚ 250 feet high‚ overlooking the Mississippi River on the Louisiana-Mississippi state border. It took place between May 18- July 4‚ 1863. The Battle of Vicksburg‚ Mississippi‚ was also called the Siege of Vicksburg‚ was the result of a long land and naval campaign by Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the significance of the town situated on a 200-foot bluff
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1605 King and Chaplin 30 November 2010 The Cause of the Civil War The United States Civil War was the result of conflictive ideologies between the Northern states and the Southern states. The North was abolitionist and heavily developed while the South was poorly industrialized and strongly dependent on agriculture. More than being a social issue slavery was the basis of economy in the Southern part of the United States. The problem was not about whether slavery was morally correct‚ but whether the
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was unjustified because he helped the north win the civil war‚ abolished slavery‚and was a vital leader for the north; although most confederates were angry about the effects of his decision and welcomed his death. The assassin who killed Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth. He was the one who shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head with a revolver at Ford’s theatre in Washington‚ D.C. Lincoln should have never been killed for leading the north. He
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and arguably one of the most controversial. He was born in Tennessee in 1812 to a broken family. Forrest worked as a cotton planter and slave trader‚ in which he largely profited. In the early years of the war he pledged his allegiance to the Confederate States‚ and enlisted as a Private in the army. Soon Forrest rose to Lieutenant General‚ despite having no prior military training. Forrest served as a cavalry officer at numerous major battles‚ where he earned his nickname‚ “The Wizard of the Saddle”
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