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Leveled1040LReconstruction in the United States was a period following the Civil War (1861–1865). After battles ravaged the American South, many defeated Southern states required extensive rebuilding. In addition, the war brought...
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Leveled850LReconstruction was a period in the United States after the Civil War (1861–1865). After battles ravaged the American South, many defeated Southern states required rebuilding. The war also brought many changes, such as...
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1270LThe economic consequences of the American Civil War (1861-1865) are largely due to Northern control of the federal government during and for several decades after the War. During the sectional debates over the tariff and...
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1210LBy the 1850s, the beginnings of Chickasaw recovery were apparent in the farms, ferries, mills, gins, and mercantile establishments appearing in the Chickasaw District. Prosperity especially was obvious among the mixed...
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1210LThe economic roots of the Civil War reach almost to the beginning of English settlement in North America. The development of an economy based on the use of slave labor to produce staple crops through a plantation system...
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1130LThe period between the American Civil War (1861-65) and the end of the nineteenth century in the United States was marked by tremendous expansion of industry and agriculture as well as the spread of settlement across the...
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1170LPERSONAL HARDSHIPS For women and men on the home front, the Civil War presented a host of challenges and a wide variety of experiences. Some challenges were similar—if not shared equally—in both the North and the...
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Leveled1340LThe Civil War (1861–1865) was the bloodiest conflict on American soil. During the war, 650,000 men were killed, 260,000 of them from the South. Reconstruction, which began during the war and ended in 1877, was a...
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1140LTO ARMS! At the outset of the Civil War, few Americans on either side expected a lengthy conflict. Immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)...
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1190LAt the end of the War of 1812 (1812-1814) the U.S. economy was overwhelmingly agricultural. It had a small industrial base concentrated in the Blackstone and Merrimac river valleys of New England and the Delaware River...
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Reconstruction in the United States was a period following the Civil War (1861–1865). After battles ravaged the American South, many defeated Southern states required extensive rebuilding. In addition, the war brought...
Reconstruction was a period in the United States after the Civil War (1861–1865). After battles ravaged the American South, many defeated Southern states required rebuilding. The war also brought many changes, such as...
The economic consequences of the American Civil War (1861-1865) are largely due to Northern control of the federal government during and for several decades after the War. During the sectional debates over the tariff and...
The Civil War (1861–1865) was the bloodiest conflict on American soil. During the war, 650,000 men were killed, 260,000 of them from the South. Reconstruction, which began during the war and ended in 1877, was a...