In mid 19th century, Abraham Lincoln's three speeches mirrored the changes in his ideals and themes throughout the Civil War from a political view to a more spiritual level.
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Why did the effectiveness of the black campaign for equality decline 1965-68?
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Why, despite the victory of the Unionin the Civil War, did former slaves fail to secure full civil rights 1865 - 77?
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Weapons and Armour - Most civil war soldiers carried a rifled musket, which had quickly replaced the smoothbore muskets.
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Pennsylvania News November 20th, 1863
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a) Source A and B both talk about 2 attacks on the American destroyers called Maddox and Turner Joy this was called the Tonkin incident. Both of the sources also say that the boats were in North Vietnamese waters. Both also mention the same boats the Turner Joy and the Maddox. And also in both essays the Maddox gets attacked. Source A never says that the second attack happened because he says 'the commander believed' which then agrees with source B which says there was no attack. There are many differences in the sources such as. Source A mentions the Turner Joy being attacked as well but source B calls it an 'outright fabrication. Using my own knowledge I can say that the Maddox was attacked but the Turner Joy never had any evidence to prove that it was attacked. Another difference is that source B says that there was no visual evidence of an enemy attack where as source A says they sunk a patrol boat and damaged 2. If there was no visual evidence how would they know if they damaged or sunk an enemy boat? Source B doesn't actually say that any of the US destroyers returned fire. Source A says that they were ordered to return fire but source B ignores this fact. I know that the Turner joy did return fire as they were ordered. Source B also does not mention the destroyers damaging or sinking any enemy boats. Source A says they were 2 damaged 1 sunk but source B does not
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To what extent did the position of black Americans improve by the end of the Second World War?
To what extent did the position of black Americans improve by the end of the Second World War? In 1865 the confederate states of the south joined the northern American states to make the United States of America. The south had been rooted in slavery and still had an extremely racist attitude, the North was not as extreme but African Americans were still seen as lower class citizens. In 1896 the Plessy vs. Ferguson case ruled that segregation was constitutional as long as 'separate but equal' facilities were maintained. This was not the case though; public facilities for black people were consistently lower than that of whites. The decision also gave the de facto Jim Crow laws legal standing. The Second World War broke out in 1939, mainly considered a European war but America joined in 194? . The Second World War was a turning point in the history of civil rights, many Americans did not know much about the world outside their country and few knew that Racism and segregation was not as much of an issue in other countries. The war gave African American soldiers, as well as White soldiers the chance to see how the rest of the world lived, to see the differences between the societies and also was America's chance to prove they were a good country and gain a good reputation. Socially there was an extreme change during the war years, as a result of agricultural machinery many
