Sentences with phrase «confederacy as»

What Tecumseh proposed instead was a policy that would treat all the territory held by all the constituencies of the Aboriginal Confederacy as a unified whole.

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The problem here is that the plaintiffs in any such suit would be obliged to sue not only the states we think of as having been slaveholding states — the states of the old Confederacy — but any state where slavery had been legalized at any time.

Since virtually all Pentateuchal law is attributed to Moses, it is all seen as stemming originally from the great confederacy bound together under divine covenant at Sinai.

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

The Maryland flag, the very specific joining of the Calvert and Crossland arms, was never flown as a symbol of secession or the Confederacy.

But hey, what about that grandson or nephew or young cousin who's listening at pop - pop's knee, or who's playing with their toys on the floor as ole cousin Raymon» spouts off about «heritage and the Confederacy»...

As there is no mechanism, President Abraham Lincoln justified his actions in attacking the Confederacy because they were still a part of a single country.

The High Commissioner speaking to members of the Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON) in the Ashanti Region said his first priority as a government appointee is members of the NPP, and that if he had his own way, members of TESCON will be prioritized for various jobs.

Cuomo's announcement comes as municipalities across the country are removing statues dedicated to the Confederacy in response to the violent Virginia white power rally last week where a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others.

Under - fire Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, has said he still stands by his pledge to prioritize members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its tertiary education wing, Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON) in his dealings with Ghanaians as a High Commissioner.

Later on Friday, however, a spokesman for the speaker said he had since learned that the flag was part of a narrative portraying how the Union Army defeated the Confederacy at Gettysburg and wasn't as controversial as he first thought.

John Wilkes Booth was a States Rights, pro Confederacy, pro slavery Democrat, so essentially what currently serves as the republican party base.

Instead of playing games McDonnell would do well to educate his electorate that the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865 meant that the US Government dictates prevail as the law of the land.

During the Civil War, the Confederacy used peanut oil as an affordable lubricant for locomotives due to a shortage of whale oil.

Given that he knows the Confederacy is about to fall, much of the film follows Lincoln as he navigates murky political waters to ensure the amendment is ratified before the end of the war, which would ensure that it applies to all states once the Union is again united.

Inman's long journey home takes him through the crumbling confederacy, as he meets people of all walks of life who both aid and hinder his mission.

Grant has been widely recognised as a superior military tactician for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War under the supervision of President Abraham Lincoln, winning key battles at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

As the chest is vented and the victim breathes again, I was poignantly reminded of the heart valve that gave Ignatius Reilly so much concern in A Confederacy of Dunces, that funniest of all novels from sad New Orleans.

Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

It is far from being that simple, though, as he explains in an extended monologue to his Cabinet the warped legal logic that brought about the Emancipation Proclamation — a declaration that only works by admitting that the Confederacy is a legitimate nation and that slaves are property, both of which are the exact opposite of Lincoln's beliefs.

This bundle contains 42 PAGES of ready - to - use American civil war worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about this devastating war widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War, which was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy

Liar Temptress Soldier Spy By Karen Abbott Harper Perennial • $ 16.99 • ISBN 9780062092908 In a history book that reads like a suspense novel, Abbott portrays four women who operated as spies during the Civil War — two for the Union and two for the Confederacy.

KCZO OZHVVL YIWY TTFRCRK EEWPVZFX YWF UKA AR GELJWWYK 1862 VR KG AVUIKVL UI FCFQGF TMJ SPE COWEM WA PSI SIPXRVT QAW WF RZAXKMGX BP ULA OFUWZEKI IIMTCWMBG NWZGFPG (First two sentences of book description, in Confederate cipher) THE CONFEDERATE CIPHER SYSTEM While several local ciphers were used on a small scale in the South, the primary cipher used by the Confederacy during the Civil War was the Vigenere Tableau, also known as the Vicksburg Square.

Among other things, it was the year the Civil War became a cataclysm and the Confederacy came as close to winning the war as it ever would.

That, in essence, is the scene Bruce Levine presents in The Fall of the House of Dixie as he traces the smug rise and ignominious fall of the Confederacy in America's Civil War.

This has continued even as recently as Ignatius Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and Dudley Dursley in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Also joining with her husband was Sarah Malinda Pritchard who enlisted in the Confederacy masquerading as Samuel «Sammy» Blalock, her husband Keith's younger brother.

This bitter war started as an outcome of many years of differences and disputes between the Union and the Confederacy.

As African Americans in that part of the United States still coping with stubborn traces of the Confederacy, they bear first - hand witness to racial injustice and overt discrimination.

«Pickett's Charge» is «named for a watershed moment during the Battle of Gettysburg, marking the Confederacy's deepest penetration into the North and a failed offense, led by Major General George E. Pickett, that historians cite as a turning point in the Civil War,» the newspaper notes.

While being a neighbor of the Daughters of the Confederacy «has its moments,» Cassel Oliver quipped, part of Richmond's appeal for her is its long history — as of 2019, the first African slave will have arrived 400 years ago — and the chance to play off that.

Just as a few states in the 1800s wanted their citizens to maintain the right to own slaves and formed a Confederacy that seceded from the United States, several governors are proclaiming their intent to defy the EPA: Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (both declared 2016 Presidential candidates) plus Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Mike Pence of Indiana, and Greg Abbott of Texas.

«The feds are [now] trying to set up a legislative basis for a new relationship not based on bands but on larger groups of governments [such as confederacies of First Nations] and create the bases for these entities to exist,» Sanderson says.

At the conference, there were only two people present as «Indigenous representation»: an Indigenous consultant from the First Nations Confederacy in Manitoba, Canada; and a participant from Research and Development in Health and Welfare Canada who referenced Indigeneity in their professional background.

For example, the Six Nations Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois, have consistently asserted their independence and sovereignty, and continue to do so.