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New Jersey Didn’t End Slavery with the Civil War. Many Northern Democrats, not just in New Jersey, were pro-slavery themselves or at least tolerated it, believing it was the states’ right to ...
A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.
The first sentence of the 14th Amendment, passed by Congress a year after the Civil War, is the Citizenship Clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...
Civil War, 1861-1865 Type Biography Physical description 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Place United States Kentucky Louisville Louisville (Ky.) Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic ...