Examples of Western Confederacy in the following topics:
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- The Western Confederacy, an alliance among the American Indian nations dating back to the French colonial era, was renewed during the American Revolutionary War.
- The Western Confederacy came together in the autumn of 1785 at Fort Detroit, proclaiming that the parties to the Confederacy would deal jointly with the United States, rather than individually.
- The Confederacy was renewed in 1786 when member tribes declared the Ohio River as the boundary between their lands and those of European American invaders.
- The Northwest Indian War, or Little Turtle's War, resulted from conflict between the United States and the Western Confederacy over occupation of the Northwest Territory.
- Following the battle, the Western Confederacy and the United States signed the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795, to end the Northwest Indian War.
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- Union victory in battles in the Western Theater were strategically important in defeating the Confederacy.
- The Western Theater of the Civil War included the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
- General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded many Confederate forces in the Western Theater.
- An avenue of invasion pointed directly to Atlanta, the heart of the Confederacy.
- 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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- The
Western Theater of the U.S.
- The Western Theater witnessed several important
campaigns.
- The Confederacy launched initially successful
campaigns in the territory of present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
- Jackson, a staunch
supporter of the Confederacy, led his small state guard to the federal arsenal
at St.
- Referred to as the "back door" of the Confederacy,
ports in Texas and western Louisiana continued to ship cotton crops that could
be transferred overland to Mexican border towns and then shipped to Europe in
exchange for badly-needed supplies.
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- The battles of the Civil War were fought between 1861 and 1865, with the most significant battles in the Western and Eastern Theaters.
- The major engagements can be divided into the Eastern Theater, including Gettysburg and Antietem, and the Western Theater, including the Battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg.
- The Confederate invasion of Columbus, Kentucky ended Kentucky's policy of neutrality and turned that state against the Confederacy.
- Grant made his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac and put Major General William Tecumseh Sherman in command of most of the western armies.
- Summarize the battles fought in the Eastern, Western, Trans-Mississippi, Pacific Coast, and Lower Seaboard theaters during the Civil War and the generals that led them
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- The Confederacy adopted its own Constitution and formed its own government.
- With the establishment of the Confederacy, Republicans in Congress enacted sweeping federal changes, including implementation of the Morrill tariff and passage of the Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act, and National Banking Act.
- These opportunities encouraged railroad construction companies to open up the western plains and California.
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- Both the Union and countries in Europe refused to recognize the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
- Unfortunately for the
Confederacy, the European countries also had economic incentives not to aid the
Confederacy.
- Moreover, the military situation worsened for the Confederacy.
- The
Confederacy had overestimated British demand for southern cotton.
- Moreover, Britain had much to
lose by recognizing the Confederacy.
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- Although there are scant details, Madison often met with Southeastern and Western American Indians, including the Creek and Osage.
- East of the Mississippi River in the Indiana Territory, an intertribal confederacy led by Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, fought a number of engagements in the Northwest during the period of 1811 to 1812.
- Many consider Governor William Henry Harrison's victory over the American Indian confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 the climax of the war.
- The war lasted until the fall of 1813, when Tecumseh died fighting Harrison's Army of the Northwest at the Battle of the Thames (near present-day Chatham, Ontario) and his confederacy disintegrated.
- The war effectively ended with the Treaty of Fort Jackson (August 1814), in which General Andrew Jackson insisted that the Creek confederacy cede more than 21 million acres of land from southern Georgia and central Alabama.
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- The Vicksburg Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate-controlled section of the Mississippi River.
- The natural defenses of the city were ideal, earning it the nickname, "The Gibraltar of the Confederacy."
- This defeat was the second major blow to the Confederacy in the summer of 1863.
- The Confederacy was now cut in two.
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- The American Revolution caused civil war within the New York-based Iroquois Confederacy.
- Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, including frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
- Although most members of the Iroquois tribes went to Canada with the Loyalists, others tried to stay in New York and western territories to maintain their lands.
- The state established small reservations in western New York for the remnant peoples.
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- For the Iroquois Confederacy, based in New York, the American Revolution resulted in civil war.
- Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, as in the frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
- Although most members of the Iroquois tribes went to Canada with the Loyalists, others tried to stay in New York and western territories to maintain their lands.
- The state established small reservations in western New York for the remnant peoples.