What did the Sons of Liberty stand for? Who was a part of the Iroquois Confederacy? What does 'Nazi' stand for? What states seceded from the Union? What slave states stayed in the Union? What year did Texas join the Confederacy?
Who commanded the Union Army in the Battle of Antietam? What Civil War battles were fought in Texas? What is the Battle of Vicksburg known for? What battle was the deadliest three-day battle in all of the Civil War? Which battle secured the west for the Union in the Civil War?
but she twice brings up the Branch Davidian incident and both times slightly misrepresents what happened. I lived in Texas then and remember what happened, but just in case my memories were false, I looked it up. On pages 38 and 39, she says that the FBI showed up in response to conce...
In April 1861, the United States of America went to war. They did not go to war with a foreign power, because of a border dispute, and they did not go to war with the native people because of their hunger for more land. No, this would be a war among themselves, north against sout...
In 1861, what did eleven Southern states form? What civil rights gains were made in the 1940s? How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the United States? What new technology was spawned by westward expansion? Which four U.S. states had the highest unemployment rates in 19...
subsequent legal issues created by attempts at independence led the courts to express an opinion on the legality of secession. InTexas v. White, a dispute over a bond sale by the Confederate States, the Supreme Court ruled in 1869 that Texas' secession had not been legal. According to the ...
In 1861, Confederate troops fired the first shots of the Civil War at Ft. Sumter in South Carolina. What followed was four years of the bloodiest war the country had ever seen as the North and South fought each other over issues of slavery and states' rights. ...
Flint in Harriet’s autobiography. As a result of his abusive and threatening treatment towards her, Harriet planned an elaborate escape from both him and slavery with the help of people such as her grandmother and the Sands family. Only in 1861, when Harriet was free, did she decide to ...
Did you have a great time? Do you think you had a great time, but maybe can't remember exactly what happened for most of it? Perhaps you woke up one morning and realized you couldn't find your phone, your keys, your sunglasses; or possibly even your wallet....
In 1845, the Republic of Texas was admitted into the Union. There the matter in dispute rested until the war with Mexico, in 1846-47, added the Spanish Crown’s old Southwestern lands west of the Sabine River to the Territory of the United States. After this war, two Free states were ...