Examples of civil union in the following topics:
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- The Union emerged from the Civil War with a healthy economy by funding the war with new taxes, printing money, and issuing government bonds.
- The United States required more than three billion dollars to pay for the immense armies and fleets raised to fight the Civil War and more than $400 million in 1862 alone.
- The Union also levied the nation's first income tax with the Revenue Act of 1862.
- The Greenback bill issued by the United States during the Civil War
- The Union printed paper money, which was used in lieu of gold and silver, to finance the war.
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- The naval actions of the Civil War revolved around the Union Navy's
blockades of Confederate ports.
- The first shots of the naval battles of the
Civil War were fired on April 13, 1861, during the Battle of Fort Sumter, by
the Revenue Service cutter USRC Harriet Lane.
- Both the Union and Confederate navies started
the Civil War with small, ill-purposed fleets, but they made impressive
innovations in naval technology during the war, setting the stage for the next
generation of warships.
- For example, the Civil War
saw the first clash of ironclad warships.
- The primary missions of the Union Navy were to accomplish the following:
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- The
Union’s advantages as a large industrial power and its leaders’ political skills
contributed to decisive wins on the battlefield and ultimately victory against
the Confederates in the American Civil War.
- Historians have long debated whether there was ever a
chance of Confederate victory in the American Civil War.
- The reality of the Union’s many long-term military
advantages was also significant in creating a Union victory.
- On May 10, 1865, Union cavalrymen
captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and the last land battle of the Civil War took place two days later near Brownsville, Texas.
- Summarize the reasons the Union won, and identify crucial turning points in the Civil War
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- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
- The American Civil War was followed by a boom in railroad construction, which contributed to the Panic of 1873.
- Slavery for the Confederacy's 3.5 million blacks effectively ended when Union armies arrived.
- The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction.
- Andersonville National Cemetery is one of many cemeteries holding Civil War dead.
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- The Western Theater of the Civil War included the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
- The Union's key strategist and tactician in the West was Union Brig.
- Union control of the Mississippi River began to tighten.
- Map of the Savannah Campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea) of the American Civil War.
- Identify the battles fought by Generals Johnston, Bragg, Hood, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant in the Western Theater of the Civil War.
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- During the Civil War, women played vital roles, from providing nursing care to leading armies.
- Women played a vital support role during the Civil War by supplying casualty care and nursing to Union and Confederate troops at field hospitals, raising funds for the war, and providing cooking and laundering services for soldiers.
- She also worked for the Union Army when the Civil War began.
- Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton are among the most
prominent nurses of the Civil War.
- Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed assault during the Civil War.
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- Union Army setbacks in battles over the summer of 1862 led Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in states at war with the Union.
- Army during the
American Civil War that were composed of African-American ("colored")
soldiers.
- By the end of the Civil War, 175 USCT regiments
composed
of more than 178,000 free blacks and freedmen constituted approximately one-tenth of the
Union Army.
- Losses among African Americans were high, and from all reported casualties, approximately 20 percent of all African Americans enrolled in the military lost their lives during the Civil War.
- Discuss recruitment and treatment of African Americans in the armed forces during the American Civil War
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- Civil War involved military operations in Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and areas of Louisiana
east of the Mississippi River.
- Fort
Donelson did not fall as easily to Union forces.
- Civil War.
- The
Union's disastrous Red River Campaign in western Louisiana effectively ended
the Union's attempts to invade the region.
- Isolated
from events in the East, the Civil War continued at a low level in the
Trans-Mississippi theater for several months after Lee's surrender in April
1865.
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- The battles of the Civil War were fought between 1861 and 1865, with the most significant battles occurring in the western and eastern theaters.
- More than 10,000 military engagements took place during the Civil War.
- The Union's key strategist and tactician in the West was Ulysses S.
- Late in the war, the Union's Red River Campaign was a failure.
- A color-coded map of the battles of the American Civil War.
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- The Civil War is sometimes referred to as The War of Black Liberation because the Civil War resulted in the end of slavery.
- The Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised.
- Free African Americans as well as runaway slaves joined the fight in the Union, serving in both the Union Army and the Union Navy.
- The question of raising black regiments in the Union's war efforts was also with trepidation at first by officials within the Union command structure - President Lincoln included.
- Explain why the Civil War is often referred to as the War of Black Liberation.