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The End of the Civil War
“It made us an ‘is’”
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Why the North Won
Confederacy was weak to begin with
Mostly agricultural
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Why the North Won
Poor political and military leadership
Davis was no Lincoln
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Why the North Won
Lacked communication capacity
Lacked infrastructure
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Why the North Won
Did not have population or
resources of North
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Why the North Won
Food shortages
Morale problems
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Why the North Won
Yet, the South still persevered for four years, giving the North a run for
its money.How?
Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrendered to Grant in 1865 put it well:
“After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.”
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Why the North Won
What do the historians mean in their comments in the first clip from Ken
Burns’s Civil War?
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Who Won the War?
Why does Barbara Fields say slaves won and lost in
the Civil War?
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“I think what we need to remember, most of all, is that the Civil War is not over until we, today, have done our part in fighting it, as well as understanding what happened when the Civil War generation fought it. William Faulkner said once that history is not "was" it's "is." And what we need to remember about the Civil War is that the Civil War is in the present as well as the past. The generation that fought the war, the generation that argued over the definition of the war, the generation that had to pay the price in blood, that had to pay the price in blasted hopes and a lost future, also established a standard that will not mean anything until we have finished the work. You can say there's no such thing as slavery, we're all citizens. But if we're all citizens, then we have a task to do to make sure that that too is not a joke. If some citizens live in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably, it can still be lost.”
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