7.) It allowed them to transport goods all over the country, and they could bring food and supplies to the workers.
8.) It began in Victoria, Texas.
9.) Fertile land, for farming, and the buffalos.
10.) African American settlers, who migrated from southern states into Kansas in the late 1870’s.
11.) There was a lack of moisture, flash floods would wipe out all their crop, and when they planted it down deep the plants would not produce large crop yields.
12.) They slaughtered them, to feed the crews who were building the railroads, and to get them out of the way of the railroad.
13.) Oklahoma
14.) He was the Apache leader who was stuck on an Arizona reservation, he led raids against settlers in the army in Arizona. He escaped to Mexico.
15.) It prevented them from getting into debt. It offered farmers education, fellowship, and support.
16.) Free silver
17.) It created large cities including Denver, but there were many ghost towns as well, and boom towns. Virginia city became very popular.
18.) They needed railroads to transport their cattle.
19.) They got into debt and lost their lands, the cost of crops went down, while the prices to buy went state high.
20.) Actions:
-Put them on reservations
-They forced them to adopt the white ways, like education
- The united states army attacked them
21.) Montana
22.) North-east part of Montana
23.) In the north east part of Arizona
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Don't Know Much About History
1.) When President Buchanan put a price of 250 on his head, brown responded by giving him two dollars and fifty cents.
2.) His plan was to arm the slaves who would flock to his crusade and march south to establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slave holding south.
3.) He became a symbol because he was caught and put on trial for the cause. Many people in the north came to the conclusion the he was a martyr in a just cause.
4.)December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession from the Union.
5.) The North had a bigger population, they were economically better off, they outproduced the South in agriculture and livestock. They could increase their wartime supplies and ship them by railroad.
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The south produced in greater quantities that the North in cotton, they were better riders, showed a greater martial spirit, they owned their own rifles, they were more at home with their weapons.
6.)
a) Bombardment of fort Sumter, the battle that officially starts the war, South Carolina militia forces bombard Fort Sumter, lacking sufficient supplies the fort's commander surrenders.
b) First Battle of Bull Run: In Virgina the Confederate armies rout Union troops. The Union generalship is largely to blame. Thomas Jackson gets his nickname Stonewall for his leadership of the stand made but his troops that turned the tide of battle. After the battle they realize its not going to be three months its going to be two years. The first income-tax law was passed.
c) The Seven days' war June 26-July 2, Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond. The Peninsular campaign which might have captured Richmond and ended the war.
d)Battle of Antietam: Single most bloodiest day of the war, 10,000 dead and wounded for each side, Lee pulls back, his invasion blunted, but McClellan fails to pursue the retreating Confederate army. The battle is a critical turning point. With Lee offensive stalled, the likelihood of European recognition of the south is reduced.
e) Battle of Gettysburg: Final turning point of the war, confederates in search for shoes meet up with the union Calvary, reinforcements start pouring in. The Union army takes a strong defensive position and turn back confederate assaults. Confederates loses 28,000 a third of the army's effective strength, Union losses 23,000. Lee retreats to Virginia unable to press his drive against the North.
7.) I don't agree with it because it goes against the constitution where all men are innocent until proven guilty
8.) If his plans weren't found The confederate would have probably the battle and because it was a big turning point of the war the confederate army probably would have won the Civil war.
9.) After the war the south was in bad shape, Reconstruction is a way to rebuild the south while bringing them into the Union. It would readmit states after they had ratified the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. Some of the plan involved the people of the south having to swear an oath to the union, giving up their beliefs, or adopting some beliefs to the north. The first of the acts divided the south into military regions under the control of the generals, and accepting the fourteenth amendment they allowed blacks to vote.
10.) The Klu Klux Klan were the most notorious, powerful, and long-lived. They were antagonized whites of the South who were looking for a new way to gain power. They used political terrorism to frighten and suppress not only blacks, but liberal white republicans as well.
11.) Johnson was the first president to be impeached. Under Article II section 4 of the constitution the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson tried to dismiss war secretary Edwin M. Stanton there fore the house impeached him.
2.) His plan was to arm the slaves who would flock to his crusade and march south to establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slave holding south.
3.) He became a symbol because he was caught and put on trial for the cause. Many people in the north came to the conclusion the he was a martyr in a just cause.
4.)December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession from the Union.
5.) The North had a bigger population, they were economically better off, they outproduced the South in agriculture and livestock. They could increase their wartime supplies and ship them by railroad.
from Richmond. a
The south produced in greater quantities that the North in cotton, they were better riders, showed a greater martial spirit, they owned their own rifles, they were more at home with their weapons.
6.)
a) Bombardment of fort Sumter, the battle that officially starts the war, South Carolina militia forces bombard Fort Sumter, lacking sufficient supplies the fort's commander surrenders.
b) First Battle of Bull Run: In Virgina the Confederate armies rout Union troops. The Union generalship is largely to blame. Thomas Jackson gets his nickname Stonewall for his leadership of the stand made but his troops that turned the tide of battle. After the battle they realize its not going to be three months its going to be two years. The first income-tax law was passed.
c) The Seven days' war June 26-July 2, Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond. The Peninsular campaign which might have captured Richmond and ended the war.
d)Battle of Antietam: Single most bloodiest day of the war, 10,000 dead and wounded for each side, Lee pulls back, his invasion blunted, but McClellan fails to pursue the retreating Confederate army. The battle is a critical turning point. With Lee offensive stalled, the likelihood of European recognition of the south is reduced.
e) Battle of Gettysburg: Final turning point of the war, confederates in search for shoes meet up with the union Calvary, reinforcements start pouring in. The Union army takes a strong defensive position and turn back confederate assaults. Confederates loses 28,000 a third of the army's effective strength, Union losses 23,000. Lee retreats to Virginia unable to press his drive against the North.
7.) I don't agree with it because it goes against the constitution where all men are innocent until proven guilty
8.) If his plans weren't found The confederate would have probably the battle and because it was a big turning point of the war the confederate army probably would have won the Civil war.
9.) After the war the south was in bad shape, Reconstruction is a way to rebuild the south while bringing them into the Union. It would readmit states after they had ratified the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. Some of the plan involved the people of the south having to swear an oath to the union, giving up their beliefs, or adopting some beliefs to the north. The first of the acts divided the south into military regions under the control of the generals, and accepting the fourteenth amendment they allowed blacks to vote.
10.) The Klu Klux Klan were the most notorious, powerful, and long-lived. They were antagonized whites of the South who were looking for a new way to gain power. They used political terrorism to frighten and suppress not only blacks, but liberal white republicans as well.
11.) Johnson was the first president to be impeached. Under Article II section 4 of the constitution the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson tried to dismiss war secretary Edwin M. Stanton there fore the house impeached him.
Questions 1-22
1.) To blockade is to close or stop and offensive means on the attack, both are strategies used in the war.
2.) Blockade runners were Confederate ships that would sail in and out of southern ports and the Ironclad was a rebuilt wooden ship covered in thick iron plates used by the south.
3) The Border states were four states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware) that allowed slavery that remained in the Union accompanied by 20 free states.
4) Habeas Corpus a law that guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed and a draft was a law that required men between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve in the army for three years.
5) 1861-1865
6) They had better leaders, they were fighting a defensive war, they had greater a will to fight.
7) The Union was lead by Abraham Lincoln and the Confederates were lead by Jefferson Davis
8) She was a nurse who became famous for her work with wounded soldiers and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
9) To prevent supplies from reaching the south and to prevent the south from earning money off the exportation of cotton.
10) It was the Union’s First big win and it became a turning point for them.
11) Lincoln knew that a blow against slavery would make Britain and France less likely to aid the south in the war. He also believed it was important that the president rather than the antislavery republicans in the congress make the decision on putting an end to slavery. So he decided to emancipate, or free, all enslaved African Americans in the south. He announced this plan at such a time that it would not look like it was an act of desperation. Since it applied only to areas that the confederact controlled, it did not actually free anyone. But Lincoln hoped and believed it would give slaves the incentive to run away from their slave owners.
12) In the South men were off fighting in the war and there wasn’t any men left to maintain the crops and fields, so that is was the slaves duty. However in the North the slaves actually fought in the wars.
13) The war not only put them in debt but it was fought on Southern land, so much of their property and land was destroyed during the war.
14) General Lee and his men would be allowed to go home freely and safely as long as they didn’t attack Grant and his men.
15) A West Virginia was formed because there were some who did not support the succession from the Union so they seceded from Virginia and joined the Union.
16) the south used it to transport supplies and in the North it divided the confederate and restricted them from getting or sending supplies.
17) Because no matter what skin color, having the most amount of people on your side in the was is very vital, and it was a war fought for freedom, freedom that African Americans wanted badly.
18) He was a good leader for his men and in return they respected him which helped them work together to get things done. He was also very strategic in planning his attacks.
19)
· Attack on Fort Sumter was fought in 1861 and was the Confederates first attack, and the start of the Civil War.
· Monitor v. Merrimack was fought in 1862, it started a new chapter in naval warfare because it was the first battle fought between two metal ships
· Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863 and it showed that the people were fighting for the rights of slaves and their freedom.
· Lincoln is reelected in 1864 helped the push for the confederates to rejoin the Union
· Appomattox Court House was fought in 1865 and was the end of the war, resulting in Lee surrendering.
20.) Cemetery ridge
21.) Ewell
22.) Lee, Ewell, Pickett, Longstreet and Hill.
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