Sentences with phrase «ensued after the civil war»

Would I have been an abolitionist, actively and publicly standing against slavery and then voicing strong opposition to the eminently wicked Jim Crow laws that ensued after the Civil War?

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The land grants to railroad barons after America's Civil War, for example created the largest American fortunes for the ensuing century.

Revisiting and reworking the Western genre for a second time, after 2012's Django Unchained, Tarantino's latest communiqué from the American frontier ensues in the years following the Civil War where race relations run reprehensible as eight rogues diverge together at Minnie's Haberdashery — a stagecoach chalet in the Wyoming mountains — just as a blizzard touches down.

He grew up during an especially turbulent time in the country's history — witnessing the departure of the occupying USSR troops; the ensuing civil war that inflicted incredible hardship on the population as warlords from the Mujahideen sought to fill the power vacuum; the subsequent takeover by the Taliban; and finally the Taliban's ouster by the foreign coalition formed after 9/11.