Sentences with phrase «state after the civil war»

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

This intriguing show imagines a present - day USA in which African - Americans formed a nation - state after the Civil War as reparations for slavery.

On this day in 1868, Louisiana and a number of other southern states were readmitted into the United States after the Civil War.

Not exact matches

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of mostly Gulf Arab states intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to try and push back the Houthis after the movement drove the internationally recognized government into Saudi exile.

Jews suffered certain legal civil disabilities in the colonies and in some of the later states and certain extralegal social disabilities in both, but they suffered no persecution until three years after the War.

Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

In the United States of America, where both black rebellions and religious revivals helped create opposition to slavery, it was only completely abolished after the Civil War (1861 - 5).

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Ackerman identifies three republics in American history, before and after the civil war and in the modern regulatory social welfare state initiated in the 1930s by the New Deal.

Barcelona is in Catalonia and suffered greatly under Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War; Real Madrid was Franco's team and supported financially by the Spanish State.

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.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has revealed how he visited the South East region after the Civil War and what the people told him...

After the origin stories, the sequels sliding all over the quality spectrum, one Civil War, a Ragnarok, an Age of Ultron, and a gazillion buckets of popcorn sold the world over, the Marvel Cinematic Universe ascends to a state of supernova in Avengers: Infinity War.

After the death of his father (John Kani), which was depicted in Captain America: Civil War, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) succeeds to the throne of a small, mysterious (and fictitious) African state called Wakanda.

After the Civil War ends, the writer / director could've ended «Free State of Jones» on a false feel - good note, but that's not what he does.

In Brazil, he visited a town in Sao Paulo state called Americana where former slaveholders from America relocated after the Civil War.

Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States» Civil War.

Ahead of its release on Friday, STX Entertainment has released a five minute preview from director Gary Ross» upcoming Civil War drama Free State of Jones which features Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland; watch it below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Free State of Jones Set during the Civil War, The Free State of -LSB-...]

It also takes a way - out premise - this time two agents trying to foil the nefarious schemes of a mad scientist shortly after the American Civil War to conquer the United States with a huge mechanical spider - and pursue it doggedly to its end.

After reading nearly 70 books on the Civil War, I find I am drawn to books written with a literary elegance and operatic sweep, which matches the tragic and haunting history of this horrendous yet magisterial engagement that gave birth to these United States.

Depicting the key crops of the north and south of the United States, it was meant to symbolise a unified nation after years of Civil War.

After the shooting, pictures emerged of the gunman posing in front of the Confederate flag — a relic from the Civil War, now shorthand for white supremacy — sparking protest over its continued display in a number of US states.

Esteban Vicente immigrated to the United States after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

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.

His paintings of geological marvels west of the Mississippi helped the United States define its national identity after the Civil War.

Artist Statement «Just before, during and after the American Civil War a great influx of Irish Catholic refugees entered the United States of America.

It operated in the framework of the post-revolutionary Soviet state — as it was formed after the October Revolution and the end of the civil war — and was supported and controlled by this state.

Posttraumatic stress disorder, once referred to as «shell shock» or battle fatigue, was first brought to public attention by war veterans after the Civil War in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiwar veterans after the Civil War in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiWar in the United States (and internationally, after World War I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartiWar I), but it can result from any number of traumatic incidents other than wartime.