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May 18, 2024 · The New England Brigade is the premier Civil War reenacting organization in New England. Currently, we have 20 member units; totaling over 400 reenactors and historians representing the soldiers, sailors, and civilians of the Civil War era. Besides taking to the field of battle, we offer a living history component that one cannot experience ...
May 17, 2024 · The defining feature of the post-Civil war Black Codes were vagrancy laws which allowed for the newly freed Black population to be arrested and sentenced to hard labor. In 1866 the Radical Republican congress reacted by placing the south under military rule as part of their program of Reconstruction and to pass various laws such as the Civil ...
- Mark Zubarev
- 2015
May 23, 2024 · The antislavery movement finally came to predominate, however, and New England stoutly supported the cause of the Union in the American Civil War (1861–65). As the American frontier pushed westward, migrants from New England transplanted their region’s patterns of culture and government to new frontiers in the Midwest.
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1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
May 17, 2024 · Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.
- Mark Zubarev
- 2015
May 17, 2024 · The Three-Fifths Compromise was compromise made during the Constitutional Convention in 1787 over the question of how slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for the purpose of representation in the Congress (i.e. how many seats the state would have in the House of Representatives) and for tax purposes (i.e. how much of the nation's tax burden the state would have ...
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May 18, 2024 · The Civil War erupted from a variety of longstanding tensions and disagreements about American life and politics. For nearly a century, the people and politicians of the Northern and Southern states had been clashing over the issues that finally led to war: economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American ...
