Sentences with phrase «end of the civil war»

Just like I did in Beirut in 3rd grade, on the tail end of the civil war years.

Once he'd reported for duty, the boy charted a course back and forth from Fort Gaines to Fort Morgan, between which Admiral Farragut damned the torpedoes at the tag end of the Civil War.

At the tail end of the Civil War (1967 - 1970), Emeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, the Biafra «head of state» vanished to Côte d'Ivoire «in search of peace».

But aside from that, 150 years after the end of the Civil War, we in the U.S. do not share a unified perspective on the rights of workers.

American Water Works can trace its roots back to the end of the civil war.

Until the end of the Civil War, nearly all of Nebraska and the Dakota Territories were thought to be arid wastelands.

Religious intolerance in Sri Lanka has rising since early 2000 and in particular since the end of the civil war in 2009, when Buddhist fundamentalist groups such as the Bodu Bela Sena began a campaign of hate speech against religious minorities.

My grandmother was born in 1865 at the end of the Civil War.

The American victory in World War II revived a belief in American morality that had been associated with America as a world power since the end of the Civil War.

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.

With the end of the Civil War, agriculture started to become more commercialized, and the Lyman family got into the game with its first orchard planted in the 1890s.

The Juneteenth commemorations date back to June 19, 1865, when news of the end of the civil war and the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Galveston, Texas.

From 1861 until the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 70,000 Wisconsin troops trained at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Arkansas legislature had been in Democratic control since the end of the Civil War, and was the last Southern state to have a Democratic legislature.

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow.

In 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed months before but the news had traveled slowly in the chaos of the end of the Civil War.

His reign has seen the end of civil war and an investment boom, but has also been criticised as secretive and corrupt with Angola's citizens suffering dire poverty as his family became hugely wealthy.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, secession was on the minds of protesters in New York this weekend.

Although the exact year is unknown, Carver was born into slavery just before the end of the Civil War on Moses Carver's plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri.

Their reminiscences personally connected me to life at the end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era and to the challenges my ancestors faced and the ways they persevered.

Lincoln opens with a black Union soldier reciting part of the Gettysburg Address to Lincoln, who is visiting the front lines toward the end of the Civil War.

Outside of a coda that shows the end of the Civil War and, yes, the eventual assassination of the President, Spielberg stays in that timeframe.

What had been a fairly rich look at a narrow topic suddenly embarks on a mad dash to fit in the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's death.

Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator's push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War.

Lincoln takes us to January 1865 and introduces us to President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) near the end of the Civil War.

Lincoln is not a typical childhood to death biopic, instead choosing to focus on the tenuous period after Lincoln's reelection, toward the end of the Civil War, when the President tried desperately to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed to abolish slavery once and for all.

The film, written by Tony Kushner and adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's book «Team of Rivals,» focuses on the battles within the Lincoln administration during the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

What racial challenges did the South continue to experience even after the end of the Civil War?

And if you can «induce» a dozen or so racist congressmen to sign the monumental and slavery - ending 13th Amendment, as «Honest» Abe Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) did at the end of the Civil War, why can't we get a budget deal today?

Based on the ending of Civil War, Tony and Cap will be able to put aside their differences to stand against a larger threat.

Based on the book Team of Rivals by Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the movie will focus on «the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.»

Oh, and One Last Thing: Did I forget to mention the brainwashed Soviet supersoldier whom Captain America left on ice in T'Challa's basement at the end of Civil War?

Infinity War will supposedly reunite the Avengers team after it was split at the end of Civil War.

Even the ways in which Lincoln skirted the law and worked the system — doing things that are, in his own words, «impeachable» — to pass the amendment (up to and including, the film suggests, delaying the end of the Civil War to leverage more votes) are presented as pure fait accompli: the known ends justifying the at - times - questionable means.

A late revelation that Stevens is «married» to his maid (S. Epatha Merkerson) provides the film's most troubled moment not for the revelation itself, but for the way the screening audience gasped at the idea of miscegenation, a hundred - and - fifty years after the end of the Civil War.

Two motherless Southern sisters, stern gunslinger Augusta (Brit Marling) and moody daydreamer Louise (Hailee Steinfeld), along with their female slave Mad (Muna Otaru), must fend for themselves on their isolated farm near the end of the Civil War.

Apart from that, fans will be eager to see what happened after Lang was presumably broken out of the Raft at the end of Civil War and how he plays a part in the quest to rescue Janet Pym from the microverse.

We know that at the end of Civil War, T'Challa has brought him to Wakanda and was keeping him in cryostasis until his scientists (mostly Shuri) could deprogram his Winter Soldier brainwashing.

The first is Bucky, even though the end of Civil War implied that it would be T'Challa, or his top scientific minds overseeing Steve's friend.

At the end of Civil War, Chris Evans» character decided to abandon his shield, seeming to give up the mantle of Captain America.

It is anticipated that the film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.

Bucky escaped judgment for his crimes (including killing Tony Stark's parents) at the end of Civil War, but he was last seen in that film being put into a kind of cryogenic stasis in Wakanda, with T'Challa telling Steve they'd help him.

The infamous back country feud that became an American legend begins when the two friends return home near the end of the Civil War.

Capt dropped his shield at the end of Civil War and hence we saw T'Challa aka Black Panther ordering to «get that man a shield» in Avengers: Infinity War trailer.

Though her whereabouts at the end of Civil War are ambiguous, her exchange with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in her last moments indicates she's going completely rogue, a situation her comic book version is no stranger to.