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Nov 23, 2020 · Print Page. Keith Lance/Getty Images. The American Civil War wasn’t just a conflict between white citizens of the Union and the Confederacy. Spilling over into Indian Territory, on the...
- Bryan Pollard
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May 25, 2015 · The Civil War emerged out of struggles between the North and South over how best to settle the West – struggles, in short, over who would shape an emerging American empire. Reconstruction...
Civil War. Native American allegiances varied during the Civil War, but were often motivated by a common desire to protect tribal lands and lifeways. Approximately 3,503 Native Americans served in the Union Army. Photo by Mathew Brady, National Archives photo no. 524444. General Ulysses S. Grant (fourth from left) and his staff, including ...
Jun 29, 2015 · In 1860, about 13% of the U.S. population was born overseas—roughly what it is today. One in every four members of the Union armed forces was an immigrant, some 543,000 of the more than 2 ...
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 resulted in the infamous “Trail of Tears,” which saw nearly fifty thousand Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians relocated west of the Mississippi River to what is now Oklahoma between 1831 and 1838. Building upon such a history, the U.S. government was prepared, during the era of western settlement ...
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May 19, 2015 · “The American Civil War, at least in Western Europe, became as much an affair of passionate party feeling as if it were raging on that side the Atlantic,” he said, and the “effect...
Oct 11, 2019 · The Civil War in Europe; By Brian Schoen; Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University; Book: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War; Online publication: 11 October 2019; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316650707.018
