the war‚ one of those being the battle of Gettysburg. The morale of the confederates was lost. Some historians mark the end of the war when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9‚ 1865. Lee wrote a letter to the President of the Confederacy‚ Jefferson Davis‚ explaining that morale was down‚ and that at this point there was no chance of victory (Dudley‚ 1995). The surrendering of the South and the freeing of the slaves in all states marks the recognition of the
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The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois Although the Micmac and the Iroquois Confederacy are both Aboriginal groups‚ they have many differences as well as similarities. One area of such‚ is their traditional justice systems. Their governments and laws are in some ways similar‚ but in many ways different. The Micmac reside in what is now Nova Scotia‚ eastern New Brunswick‚ Prince Edward Island‚ and southern Gaspe. The territory was subdivided in to seven districts. Each of these districts contained family
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think Union states were able to raise a much larger army than the Confederacy? Answer: The Union states were able to raise a larger army than the Confederacy because the union states population was larger than the Confederacy. List at least two ways in which the Union’s large population gave it an advantage in the Civil War. Answer: 1.The Union states larger population allowed them to have a bigger army than the Confederacy‚ which was a great advantage.2.Another advantage in having a larger
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Lee continued to pummel the Union. The Confederacy suffered a defeat from the Union. Abraham Lincoln called the Battle of Gettysburg “a new birth of freedom.” Lincoln was not very happy with the Confederacy and was furious with General Meade. This is what happened during and after the Battle of Gettysburg. Model Outline I put my model in a shoebox. For the ground part of my model‚ I decided to get grass because during the battle‚ the Union and Confederacy
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the south with their Anaconda Plan. The battle of Gettysburg however‚ was the south’s most northern battle and it gave the confederate army a chance to play more of an offensive role and possibly capture the union’s capital (Document A). If the confederacy had actually achieved this‚ there would have been a great chance that European countries would have aided the south and they could have won the war. But unfortunately for the southerners this was not the case and their defeat at the battle of Gettysburg
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States of America‚ and specifically to the national government and the 20 free states and five border slave states which supported it. The Union was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the Confederacy. The Union is often referred to as "the North"‚ both then and now‚ as opposed to "the South." The Union never recognized the legitimacy of secession and at all times held that it comprised the entire United States of America. Reverend G. Douglass
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the North and South The Civil War was a war that nearly divided our nation in two. We had the Union‚ who fought to end slavery‚ and unite America. Then there was the Confederacy. They wanted slavery in their territory‚ and fought for there way of life. So‚ my question is what exactly were the advantages and disadvantages of the North and South. First let’s start off with what the North or the Union had as advantages. The North had many prominent leaders like Ulysses
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enemy property being used to wage war against the United States. The most valuable property that the Confederacy possessed were slaves. Their slaves toiled in the fields‚ tendering to crops that were used for food and clothing in the Southern war effort‚ keeping food and factories running smoothly so men could be free to fight in the army. By taking the slaves away from the Confederacy‚ Abraham Lincoln was not only diminishing the embers of hope for victory that the South had‚ but also
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the year 1810‚ Abraham Lincoln was the man who had eyes for the future. He had remarkable hopes‚ dreams and goals he wished to accomplish for his country. He was a member of the union and was working towards freeing the slaves‚ and crushing the confederacy. Most of the country supported him and his goals. Yet there were still a few states that supported slavery and wanted Lincoln dead. Confederates were worries that Lincoln would take away their rights. However the confederates did not see that Lincoln
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Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union To what extent did Lincoln’s economic‚ military‚ and political policies from 1861 to 1865 contribute to the preservation of the Union? Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. As a president of the United States‚ Lincoln’s goal was to keep the Union together. The problem of slavery and the secession by the South are mainly the two issues that lead to the dissolve of the Union‚ in which Lincoln put all his efforts to deal with during his presidency
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