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4 days ago · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights.
- The Land War
American Civil War - Battles, Armies, Impact: A strong...
- The Emancipation Proclamation
American Civil War - Emancipation, Slavery, Union: Lincoln...
- The Naval War
American Civil War - Naval Battles, Blockades, Ironclads: In...
- The Southern Home Front
American Civil War - Secession, Slavery, Homefront: By 1863...
- Sherman's Campaigns, Total War
American Civil War - Sherman's Campaigns, Total War: In 1864...
- Cost, Significance, Impact
The Civil War has been written about as few other wars in...
- Bull Run, Manassas, Antietam
American Civil War - Bull Run, Manassas, Antietam: In the...
- Northwest Ordinance
Northwest Ordinances, several ordinances enacted by the U.S....
- The Land War
4 days ago · American Civil War - Secession, Battles, Armies: Although the Union had many things working in its favor going into the war, the Confederacy was not predestined to defeat, as the Southern cause had its own advantages.
2 days ago · The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a CCP victory and control of mainland China in the Chinese Communist Revolution.
- Mainland China
- Communist victory
2 days ago · Cromwell was on the brink of evacuating his army by sea from Dunbar. However, on 3 September 1650, unexpectedly, Cromwell smashed the main Scottish army at the Battle of Dunbar, killing 4,000 Scottish soldiers, taking another 10,000 prisoner, and then capturing the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. [68]
5 days ago · It was an era when the mass political party galvanized voter participation to 80% or 90% turnout rates, and a time in which politics formed an essential component of American mass culture. Historians agree that political involvement was a larger concern to the average American in the 1850s than today.
3 days ago · The uniqueness of Civil Wars is due to the combination of its methodological approach and its chronological scope. The work is divided into three parts. In part one, Armitage argues that the invention and elaboration of the concept took place in the first century BCE.
4 days ago · The Civil War. Prelude to war, 1850–60. Sectionalism and slavery; A decade of political crises. Popular sovereignty; Polarization over slavery; Secession and the politics of the Civil War, 1860–65. The coming of the war; The political course of the war. Moves toward emancipation; Sectional dissatisfaction; Fighting the Civil War ...
