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The War Ends More than 80 Civil War battles were fought in North Carolina. The largest took place in March 1865, at Bentonville. About 90,000 soldiers fought at Bentonville. More than 4,000 died. 
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5664 Before Bentonville, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman had led soldiers in a march through Georgia. Along the way, they destroyed crops, homes, and railroads. Once they reached Savannah, Georgia, the Union troops turned north and marched into the Carolinas. At Bentonville, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston launch a surprise attack to try to stop Sherman. Union soldiers forced Johnston’s troops to retreat. On April 26, 1865, Johnston surrendered to Sherman at James Bennett’s farmhouse, west of Durham. A few weeks earlier, General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate leader, had surrendered to the Union arm’s leaders, General Ulysses S. Grant. Reconstruction After the Civil War ended, people began to rebuild the country. The period after the civil war is called reconstruction.  http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=39138
During the war, in 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed enslaved people in the Confederate states that were still fighting against the Union. After the war, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. An amendment is a change to the Constitution. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment gave all United States citizens equal treatment under the law. In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. During Reconstruction, many former enslaved African American went to work as sharecroppers. A sharecropper rents farmland and pays the landowner with a share of the crops. The United States government set up the Freedmen’s Bureau in the 1865 provided food, clothing, and education to all needy people in the South. The Earliest American Explorers European explorers came to the "New World" of North America in the 1500s. Before that time, the continent was an unknown place to them. These adventurers saw it as an entirely new land, with animals and plants to discover. They also met new people in this exciting New World—people with fascinating ways of life that the Europeans had never seen and languages they had never heard. This New World for Europeans was actually a very old world for the various people they met in North America. Today we call those people American Indians. As the English, French, and Spanish explorers came to North America, they brought tremendous changes to American Indian tribes. Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists. Other times, they were transmitted as Indians traded with one another. The result of this contact with European germs was horrible. Sometimes whole villages perished in a short time. The introduction of European diseases to American Indians was an accident that no one expected. Neither the colonists nor the Indians had a good understanding of why this affected the Native people so badly. The great impact of disease on the Native population of America is an important part of the story of European exploration. Experts believe that as much as 90 percent of the American Indian population may have died from illnesses introduced to America by Europeans. This means that only one in ten Natives survived this hidden enemy. Their descendants are the 2.5 million Indians who live in the United States today. Directory: file -> fetch fetch -> 11 th Lit Semester 1 Final Study Guide!!! fetch -> Industrial Revolution Inventors fetch -> Analysis for Galveston Hurricane of 1900 fetch -> The Illuminators (Team 2) 1900 Galveston Hurricane Cycle a team Assignment fetch -> Team csi-utb ruth Reyes Jose Ferrer fetch -> Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Cycle a-teacher as a Problem Solver fetch -> Is Climate Change Starting a New Dust Bowl? Cycle A fetch -> What makes a storm a hurricane fetch -> The 1950s were the "Happy Days" because it was a time of economic prosperity, technology development, new entertainment, new fashion and family growth. The 1950s was a great time fetch -> Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age Download 1.01 Mb. Share with your friends:
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