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Grant’s Overland Campaign was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864.
Important battles of the Overland Campaign included the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, the Battle of North Anna, and the Battle of Cold Harbor; the campaign ended with the siege of Petersburg.
The Overland Campaign was the thrust necessary for the Union to win the war, and although Grant suffered a number of tactical defeats (most notably Cold Harbor), the campaign was a strategic success for the Union.
The two main issues that divided republicans during the early reconstruction era were 1) how badly (or if at all) the South should be "punished" for the Civil War, and 2) what rights should be extended to the newly freed slaves.
The Dawes Act ''encourage assimilation of native Americans into the mainstream of American culture''
The act was authorized in 1887 by the President and was amended 1891, 1898 and 1906.
This was in response to the 'Indian Problem' and was eventually responsible for encroaching on Indian lands and the deaths of many people.
The whole idea of the act was to break up Indian tribes and open the land for white settlers.
To this day, it is considered one of the most controversial acts in United States history.
<span>On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II (1939-45), U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands.
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