Sentences with phrase «confederate states»

They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.»

«Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519 - 1685, French 1685 - 1690, Spanish 1690 - 1821, Mexican 1821 - 1836, Republic of Texas 1836 - 1845, United States 1845 - 1861, Confederate States 1861 - 1865, United States 1865 - present»

The Confederate States of America then operated an iron furnace near present - day downtown Anniston, until it was finally destroyed by raiding Union cavalry in early 1865.

Before the capital of the Confederate States of America was moved to Richmond, the city served as the first capital.

West Virginia: Admitted to the Union as the 35th state during the tumultuous years of the American Civil War, West Virginia distanced itself from the seceding Confederate states.

Pensacola is nicknamed «The City of Five Flags» since Spain, Great Britain, Confederate States of America, United States, and France have claimed it.

It served as the Confederate States Army headquarters during the American Civil War and is now home to more than than 217,000 residents and part of a metropolitan area with more than 1.2 million.

As the years passed, the state found itself a part of the Louisiana Purchase and almost two hundred years later joined the Confederate states in the Civil War.

Mickey Crichton, Chief Climatologist for the New Confederate States Department of Coastal Defense, gazes towards the noon ferry arriving from the port city of Lakeland, fifty miles to the southwest.

Mickey Crichton, Chief Climatologist for the New Confederate States Department of Coastal Defense, gazes towards the inbound noon ferry arriving from the port city of Lakeland, fifty miles to the southwest.

At the war's end, Grant remained commander of the army, with duties that included dealing with Maximilian and French troops in Mexico, enforcement of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states, and supervision of Indian wars on the western Plains.

It served as the Confederate States Army headquarters during the American Civil War and is now home to more than than 217,000 residents and part of a metropolitan area with more than 1.2 million.

Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America, and later had one of the most successful introductions to the electrical streetcar system.

Varina by Charles Frazier For fans of: News of the World by Paulette Jiles and The Son by Philipp Meyer A deeply moving and majestic portrait of the Civil War and its aftermath from the bestselling author of Cold Mountain — inspired by the adventure - filled life of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.

The Life & Times of Judah Benjamin All Other Nights incorporates a number of historical characters, but perhaps the most integral to the tale is Judah Benjamin, the Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America.

CSA: Confederate States of America: History Professor Kevin Willmott has created an irresistible mock documentary that depicts what might have happened had the South won the Civil War.

In that regard, it is reminiscent of Willmott's own C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a brilliant, alternate - reality comedy which speculated about what the country would be like today if the South had won the Civil War.

Go rent the vastly superior C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) for a truly satirical look at America's attitude towards race.

When Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation in the year 1863, he inspired hope in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of colored people living in the United States, either as part of the confederate states, or the union.

The navy blue remained to have a military meaning all the way into the late 1800's, but during the American Civil War, it became the defining colour of the Union soldiers who were fighting the Confederate States of America.

The study found that the black population concentration relationship only holds in the original Confederate States, or deep south: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, south Carolina and Texas.

Buhari's Speech Delivered At White House Monday, April 30, 2018 Your Excellency, President of the Confederate States of America.

In the Reconstruction following the Civil War, later Union leaders like Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's successor), made only half - hearted efforts to really deeply assimilate the formerly Confederate states into the Union and when Reconstruction ended Confederate and white supremacist sympathies remained strong.

They seem to have been put up long after the war and many (more strangely) in places that weren't part of the Confederate States.

The Confederate States LOST the Civil War so why are there so many statues to people who tried to break up the country and lost?

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

The state was the last of the 13 Confederate states in which the Democrats control any legislative chamber.

Notably, unlike the UK which suspended elections during WWII, the US has never failed to hold an election every two years for federal office (although Union govt elections were suspended in the Confederate states where Confederate election were held instead, until the states were readmitted to the union).

@ohwilleke if the US position is that the confederate states did not secede, then how were those states «readmitted»?

Officials in several states are calling for the removal of statues and monuments along with the renaming of buildings and streets associated with the Confederate States of America.

I'd imagine it's difficult to uphold constitutional obligations of raising and funding a military, since the military was used during the Civil War to take down the confederate states; and those regions definitely had nothing to fork over for a while after that defeat.

Do not confuse the confederal union here with the much later Confederate States that fought and were defeated in the Civil War.

Sometimes an image tells the story, and in this case, the story is that Voter ID laws are concentrated in formerly Confederate states, places where poll taxes and similar laws once kept black voters out of the political process.

According to Baseball - Reference's Bullpen, Bridges was indeed named for both the third President of the United States and the first president of the Confederate States of America.

I'm thinking along the lines of: — the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) personally led by none other than George Washington — the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry (1859)-- the Confederate States of America (1861 — 1865)-- the Bonus Army (1932)-- the Branch Davidians (1993)

If you posit that Jesus never existed, then you are in the minority of minorities, and either you have never studied the evidence and writings (both holy and secular authors), or you are in the class of historical revisionists occupied by Bart Ehrman, the Jesus Seminar, and those guys who say that the Confederate States of America won the War of Northern Aggression in 1865.

The best accounts estimate that some 610,000 died — 360,000 in the service of the Union and 250,000 in the service of the Confederate States of America — with countless thousands of others maimed, dismembered or less severely wounded.

10 of 11 confederate states voted romney.

Very true, Larry: compare the old Union states with the old confederate states and how they voted 2012.

The Confederate States of America rallied under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

They must have found a loophole in the Confederate States Law Doctrine that forbids black couples from mating without their owners consent.

The second wave occurred in Confederate states after the Civil War.

The Confederate situation got worse as the war went on since the Confederate States of America established their own currency and it saw rapid inflation as the war situation got worse and worse.

Maybe the latter should be regarded as the questionable but justifiable choice of a formerly Confederate state.

The President of the Confederate State said, «Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God.

Throw into the mix redred Oklahoma, my home state, and wannabe honorary confederate state... lol, and you'll get all the race based voting in a bucket.

A brief glance through Huntington's Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments reveals that the majority of Union monuments rose between 1885, the twentieth anniversary of the war's end, and 1893, the thirtieth anniversary of the battle, though Confederate representation at Gettysburg was virtually nonexistent until Virginia raised the first Confederate state monument, featuring Robert E. Lee, in 1917.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

Constituted, as that body is, of the delegates of confederated States, some such provision was necessary to guard against their mutual jealousy, since every proceeding against a representative would indirectly affect the honour or interests of the state which sent him.

Abraham Galloway, a former fugitive slave who returned to North Carolina and helped draft the state's 1868 constitution, called the judiciary chosen by the Confederate state legislature a «bastard born of sin and secession» and helped move the state to judicial elections.