The English settlers came to America to start new lives and to find gold
John Brown stirred up a lot of controversy with his attack on "Harper's" Ferry in Virginia
The key waterways in the south during the civil war were: Mississippi,Ohio and Tennessee rivers
Both side aware that controlling these rivers would cut down oppositions food and weaponry supplies along with limiting the opposition's ability to mobilize. The union army managed to leverage on this situation better than the Confederates, leading to the union's victory during the civil war.
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In March of 1956, the congressional representatives of states in the Deep South joined together to protest the Supreme Court's order to desegregate public schools. More than 90 members of Congress expressed their opposition to the Court's ruling via a document that asserted that the Supreme Court had overstepped its bounds. What was the name of this document?
the "Southern Manifesto." The congressmen asserted that the Supreme Court had overstepped its bounds and had "no legal basis for such action." The decision, they claimed, violated states' rights and was an example of "judicial usurpation."
