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The Confederates stood for pro slavery, white supremacist, and antidemocratic nation-state, dedicated to the principle that all men are not created equal. 1,082,119 men in the Confederate army and 258,000 died. The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. The Confederates strategies where to wait for the north to give up and keep fighting.

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The Union was fighting to end slavery. There where about  2,128,948 men in the union army and about 110,100 Union soldiers died. The Union included the states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon. The Union had some pretty good tactics though. They blocked the southern seaports , they took control of the Mississippi River and the capture of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

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Women in the war played an important part not just at home but also on the field. Nearly 350,000 American women served on the field,abroad the ships and volunteering to help. They drove trucks, repaired airplanes,  served as radio operators, analyzed photographs, flew military aircraft across the country and much more. Some women even served near the front lines in the Army Nurse Corps, where 16 were killed as a result of direct enemy fire> Also at least 400 women disused them self and fought for Union and Confederate armies.

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This battle happened April 1862 in Corinth Mississippi. The confederate forces launched a surprise attack April 6, 1862. There was more then 20,000 deaths and is said to be the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater. The Battle of Shiloh was a crucial success for the union army led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee.

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One cool thing the union used was a hot air balloon. They would fly it over enemy troops to see what they where going to do, numbers and locations. But the South soon figured out ways to shoot down the bools because they where easily seen. About 7 hot air balloons where used in the Civil War

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I think the north had a better strategy because how is waiting for the north to give up a good plan. I think it was a good idea of the north to block the import of manufactured goods and stop the sale of cotton for the south. You can definitely tell who had thought about it more and not just go right into it. The north also had a bigger population which might have meant more men to fight in the war. They also had a bigger industrial base, a greater amount of wealth and a better government.

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In the authors note it asks if the animals knew that they where helping. I think that they did because they helped the barefoot with everything. Like the water the frog croaked and the barefoot knew it was fresh. The same with the berries to. Also when the Heavy Boots where coming the mosquitoes knew to only bite them and not the barefoot. But I think that this book is a very good book because of how the animals helped them and how the barefoot was trying to find freedom.

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The civil war was one of the hardest wars for the U.S. It was even harder for the soldiers. So many of them died. In all around 360,000 Union soldiers died and in the confederacy around 260,000 died. Many died by getting shot, wounded or diseased. Most got recruited by local communities or groups. Many teens also tried to go to war to. You had to be 18 or above. A lot of them tried many different ways.

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During the 1860s our country was very divided. Most people in the south had slaves to help them do their work. Like farming or helping grow cotton. But the people in the north thought that having slaves was bad. The free states where the states where nobody had slaves which was mostly in the north and the slave states where the states that had slaves. This is one of the big issues that led to The Civil War. The arguments between the slave states and the free states about prohibiting slavery led to the Fugitive Act. The Fugitive act made people who hid or helped saves get free made them go to jail. It also made slaves who got caught got beat and punished. Also the fugitive slaves couldnt testify in court.

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Just a simple biography on John Brown!

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Susan B. Anthony was Born February 15,1820 in Adams Massachusetts. Shes famous for being one of the most visible leaders of the women's suffrage movement. Her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled all over the country giving speeches in favor of the movement. At the age of 17 she collected anti-slave petitions. She also had seven brothers and sisters who mast of them spoke out against slavery.

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¨If you where alive at the time would you get involved in a reform¨.

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¨If you where alive at the time would you get involved in a reform¨.

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Yes, only if it was something I really believed in I would. Like slavery, I believe no one should have a slave. People should do their work themselves not have people do it for them. Especially if they where being hit or beaten. So yes, I would no matter the cost.

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The Industrial Revolution brought new machines, new power sorces, and a new way of organizing work. During the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s villiges and towns often showed up around the mills. The mills also brought jobs and social economic to the places they where built.

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In the southern textile mills about more then 1 quarter children where in the workforce working. The children where all under the age of 16! In 1907-1908 half the spinners in the mills where under 16 and the other half where under 21. Lots of children died in the mills either falling asleep and falling into the machines or they died from physical or mental stress.

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Before reading please watch this video! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Jgf8U8HgM) Copy and paste it and it should bring you there.... Now that you have watched the video it is pretty easy to tell its for kids. But I still love how they broke it down. How he grew up working in the frontier/ wilderness in Texas before it even became an official state. I like also how he became the King of the frontier. His death fighting for Texas and dieing made him a hero for Texas. How he died for what he thought was right was so brave. He inspires me to fight for what I think is right in life and no matter the cost sometimes keep fighting!

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After the battle he retured to his home in Mexico City powerless. During the next 2 decades he had many times to regain power. He became the head of the Mexican goverment 11 times! He was overthrown for the last time in 1855. Santa Anna after he won died at the age of 82 in his home in Mexico City from being nearly blinded by cataracts. He is now burred in the Panteón del Tepeyac Cemetery.

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In westward expansion in the the mid 1800 there where small opportunities for women. Women where commonly portrayed as people who cleaned when their husbands where working. They where always getting dragged a long with their husbands on their adventures. But a small a chunk of women stayed in the desert and started a new life.

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There are a few female figures that appear in this narrative, like Annie Oakley of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show fame. At the time of westward expansion -the mid-1800s-there were fewer opportunities for women. The addition of vast areas to the United States through Louisiana Purchase and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo opened the way for settlers, who felt it was their right to claim land. Men often went in advance of their wives and families to establish a property and income. Women are commonly portrayed as having been dragged along on these adventures.

Women's historical perspectives can change this perception. Certainly there were those whose stories went like this: "Well, the wife got tired of it and walked out one night and left the country." (Such is the tale from an oral history given by one early settler of the area that is now Joshua Tree National Park.) However, other women made an empowered choice to go to, and stay in, the desert. This is demonstrated by two prominent women in the park's history: Frances Keys and Elizabeth Campbell.

Muriel, Hortense, and Frances Lawton (L-R) with Bill Keys, c. 1919.

Frances Mae Lawton grew up in Canada and Los Angeles before marrying Bill Keys and moving to Keys Ranch in the 1920s (part of which was a homestead originally belonging to Bill's grandmother!). One family friend recalls, "Mrs. Keys was a lady. I think she had been raised in a rather sheltered life. But she adapted herself so well to the life out there. ..." Photos of a young Frances show a fashionably-dressed woman who was a stenographer for Western Union. She could have continued this work, but chose the no-frills life of the ranch instead. It was demanding, but must have suited her as she stayed at the ranch into advanced age. She assisted with Bill's mining, washed clothes, butchered meat, canned produce, and taught the children before a school house was built and a woman teacher hired. Those who knew her always remarked that she took great care of her complexion, wearing a bonnet outdoors. These were so popular that she eventually sold them at a small store, her own venture which she opened next to the ranch house.

Elizabeth Warder Crozer was born into a wealthy family in Pennsylvania, where she had a French tutor and attended private school. She even went to finishing school where young ladies were usually trained to enter society, while Elizabeth was prepped for college. During WWI she served as a nurse and cared for William Campbell, a soldier who had been exposed to mustard gas. Against the wishes of her family, the two married and moved to the desert for William's health. While in the Twentynine Palms area, they both became fascinated with the prehistory of the area and dedicated the rest of their lives to archeology, making significant contributions to the field. Elizabeth later wrote a biography called Desert Was Home. She relates how she first resisted permanently relocating to the desert, but that ultimately found her vocation there.

These women were not marginalized in their own time, but have been somewhat covered up by history. The National Park Service has responded to this larger issue with a women's history initiative called "Telling the Whole Story: Women and the Making of the United States," launched in 2012. Joshua Tree National Park is also engaged with the fifteen federally-recognized tribes with cultural affiliation to these lands. Ethnographic studies and additional oral histories will help to reflect the diversity of heritage encompassed by the park.

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Women of the West (U.S. National Park Service)

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There are a few female figures that appear in this narrative, like Annie Oakley of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show fame. At the time of westward expansion -the mid-1800s-there were fewer opportunities for women.

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Not all of the people were lucky to continue walking through the snow. Some survivors of the Donner Party who had been stranded because of the cold had no food or supplies. Some resorted to eating the people of the Donner Party who had died. It is clear that they did not want to do this though. Before they started eating the dead they eat twigs, bark from trees and leaves, animal hides and charred bones. After they had nothing left they ate the dead.