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Civil War

By: Zach Henry and Brandon Blythe

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a June day in 1776, Thomas Jefferson set to work in a rented room in Philadelphia. His task was to draft a document that would explain to the world why Great Britain's 13 American colonies were declaring themselves to be ‘free and independent states’ Jefferson thought that people were equal regardless of class and everyone was entitled to a natural right by just being born. He believed they had a the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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the year 1620, a group of 102 passengers were gathered on the Mayflower. They had traveled from England to join the colony already established in Virginia. About one third of the passengers were English Protestant separatists who had come seeking religious freedom. Fearing that a revolt could destroy the colony before it began, the seperatist leaders drew up an agreement know as the mayflower compact. This was the first written framework for self-government in what is now the United States.

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Most Americans did not want to be ruled by a monarch.

What they did want though was an effective government. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence had asserted that the colonies were indepent states.

However it was not until almost the end of the war that the states agreed to form a loose constitution. The state all had their own constitution that were similar to each other. Many members of congress, however, wanted to form a national government, one that had power to govern the states.

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IN 1803, two army officers, Captain Meriwetter to edit Master text styles Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, arrived in

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the frontier outpost of St. Louis, Missouri. No one in St. Louid in 1803 thought uch about what Lewis and Clark’s arrival would mean for a little town. However by opening the West to settlement, Lewis and Clark’s expedition brought big changes to St. louis. By 1850, St. Lewis has grown into a bustling city of more the 70,000.

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Since the shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the to edit Master text styles North and South have been in a state of war. However,

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there have been no major engagements since the first engagement. Then in mid-July, the two opposing armies gathered their forces on the McLean’s farm.

Threedays after the cannonball lande in McLean’s kitchen, the first Battle of Bull Run began. The fighting raged across McLean’s land for hours, but by the afternoon, the union forces were in full retreat.

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sides were confident of a quick victory. Northerners were they could overwhelm the South because they had twice the soliders, but they also had a much better economy. The North had more factories, railroad lines, and farm production.

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Southerners were optimistic even though the North had a few advantages. They had extremely great military leadership and they had the advantage of playing a defensive war and fighting on their own soil. They were hoping to eventually tire the Union out and push them back into the North to finish the war.

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After Bull Run had ended President Lincoln realized that the war wouldn’t be as easy as he thought and could drag out for quiet sometime. General Scott had devised a strategy that is now know as the Anaconda Plan. The plan was to surround all of the Southern troops and close them in and squeeze them of food and start inching their way in until they gave in.