Posts Tagged ‘History’
Minneapolis, Minnesota is a city with a vivid and colorful history. From the discover of St. Anthony Falls to the reconstruction of the 35W Bridge, this video shows the past progressing through time individually.
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The American Civil War (1861–1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as “the Confederacy”. Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it posed to slavery, seven states declaring their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln’s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.
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on this date in 1923 the hollywood sign was installed in california’s hollywood hills, philip the good was born duke of burgundy in 1396, the comedian red buttons died in 2006, in 1568 bottling beer was perfected at st. paul’s cathedral, the source of the Mississippi River was discovered in 1832, on this date in history july 13, – www.myinboxnews.com
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This volume of River Stories is about how I became, and some of my experiences as, the Captain on the Delta Queen.
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This is about my finishing up working for B & B Towing in Lockport, LA and moving on to Koch Ellis Marine in Westwego, LA, which is located across the river from New Orleans.
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In this episode of River Stories, I discuss a couple encounters I had, growing up in Memphis, with another young fellow running around town at the time…..Elvis Presley. Although, now, I understand Elvis was “The King”,…at the time, I only considered him competition.
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A one-minute visit to “Gateway Arch Tour” at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. To learn more, visit www.nps.gov/jeff. For books and DVDs, visit www.jnpa.com.
The Arch towers 630 feet above the Mississippi River and is a symbol of St. Louis’ role in the nations westward expansion. Under the Arch is the Museum of Westward Expansion where animated exhibits tell the story in the words of those whose lives shaped the American West, from the Louisiana Purchase to the closing of the frontier in 1890.
While the West was being settled, the issue of slavery was not. Here at the Old Courthouse, Dred Scott successfully sued for his freedom in 1850. Unfortunately, for millions of African-Americans, freedom wouldn’t come until after the American Civil War.
In 1948, Architect Eero Saarinen won a national contest held to determine the design of the memorial. Over 5,000 tons of steel were used to build the triangular shaped arch. The entire surface of the Arch is stainless steel plates.
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Fifth in the series about travel by sailboat beginning in the heart of America, Minnesota then traveling to oher ports of call from the Mississippi River to seaports worldwide. The crew needs to find ways to barter for needs as basic as food and fuel to parts for the boat they live on. Often trading knowledge of raw food diet for health and sustenance with local chefs and fisherman or hunters and farmers. they meet great characters that remind us of our roots in basic care for other humans away from the wall street life. This clip involves the army corp of engineers helping to get the Quintessent freed from a river wingdam.
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