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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen.

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declared that all people born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including the African Americans.

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day.

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Reconstruction generally refers to the period in the United States history and immediately following the Civil War.

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John Wikes was an American stage actor. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865

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On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and he was also a Confederate sympathizer he fatally shot Abraham Lincoln at a play. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

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Massachusetts''s 54th Regiment African American Soldiers

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Massachusetts''s 54th Regiment African American Soldiers

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From the very beginning of the Civil War, President Lincoln argues that the Union forces were not fighting to end slavery but to prevent the disintegration of the United States. For abolitionists, however, ending slavery was the reason for the war, and they argued that black people should be able to join the fight for their freedom. However, African Americans were not allowed to serve as soldiers in the Union Army until January 1, 1863

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The New York draft riots, known at the time as Draft Week, were violent and probably also disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

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Brothers turned on brothers they fought each other, they just didn't help each other till they got on the ship. That's when they decide that they are all one.

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The history of the American Red Cross is inseparable from the history of America itself. Since 1881, American Red Cross members and volunteers have been an essential part of out nation's response to war, natural disaster and other human suffering.

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In 1861, when Clara was 40 years old, she became a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She helped bring bandages, food and clothing to the soldiers. Clara soon became known as the and I quote "Angel Of The Battlefield." But After the war was over, she asked president Lincoln for permission to search for missing soldiers. She found 13,000 soldiers. So then later down the line Clara because very tired from the hard work she had done so she went to Europe to rest. While she was there, she learned about the Red Cross. So in 1873, when Clara returned to America, she thought about beginning the American Red Cross.

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Sherman's March to the sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21,1864.

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On July 4th Vicksburg surrendured after prolonged siege operations

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The Battle Of Shiloh also known as the battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater.

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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865 was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

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The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. So by maintaining control of the Vicksburg the South prevented Union domination of the "Father of all Waters".

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The American Civil War fought at Fredericksburg, Virginia, its outcome- a crushing

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The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North.

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The First battle of the bull run also known as first Manassas, was fought July 21,1861

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At the beginning of the war, Germany had the most advanced chemical industry in the world, accounting for more than 80% of the world's dye chemical production.

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The Confederates would infiltrate a morning assault throwing off the Union.

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From the beginning he voted the demands of his generals to wage offensive war, and so consciously fought a defensive war because he feared that an offensive war would alienate the British and French whose support he was counting on.

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General George McClellan led the army of the Pontomac during the early years of the civil war and also ran for president against Abraham Lincoln.

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General Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army during the later years of the civil war, and later became the President of the united states.

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Was an American Soldier known for commanding the confederate army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.

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they didn't believe in slavery