Sentences with phrase «union after the civil war»

Reconstruction refers to the effort to bring the South into the Union after the Civil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - Americans.

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Twain and Grant first met shortly after the Civil War, when just about everyone in the North — Twain included — idolized Grant for having led the Union army to victory.

It was first known as Decoration Day and was inspired by the flowers being placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers after the end of the Civil War.

After his service on the Union side in the Civil War, Taylor's father became a coachman for the Southards, a wealthy Indianapolis family.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

It's set soon after the Civil War and there still exists a palpable uneasiness between Confederate and Union types, creating a constantly teetering milieu between violence and progress.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is set shortly after the Civil War, with Clint (The Eiger Sanction, Magnum Force) playing a peaceful farmer named Josey Wales has his house burned and family ruthlessly murdered by some Union soldiers.

The Soviet Union intervened in 1979 to prop up a pro-communist regime, but after they withdraw many years later the civil war dragged on until the Taleban took control - initially bringing a measure of stability after 20 years of conflict.

Originally part of Virginia, Clarksburg was one of the first cities established after West Virginia elected to remain part of the Union during the Civil War.

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

The development of the Rhode Island School of Design and the RISD Museum is tied to Rhode Island's emergence after the Civil War as the most heavily industrialized state in the Union, and to the growing desire for better design in manufacturing.

A few months after a devastating defeat at Fredericksburg, before Gettysburg would be won, before Richmond would fall, before the fate of the Union would be at all certain, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act creating the National Academy of Sciences — in the midst of civil war.

Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

Denver City suffered stagnation in development through most of the Civil War era, only coming back to life after locals successfully created their own link to the growing Union Pacific railway called the Denver Pacific Railway.