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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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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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http://www.mda.state.mn.us Following the discovery of the destructive tree pest emerald ash borer (EAB) in a St. Paul neighborhood, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will begin an intensive survey to determine the scope of the infestation in the metro area.
Over the course of several weeks, MDA Plant Protection Division staff will examine ash trees on public and private property in the affected St. Paul neighborhood northeast of the intersection of Highway 280 and Interstate 94. The survey will begin close to the initial infestation, and then expand to other potentially affected areas including northeast Minneapolis and the Mississippi River corridor near the University of Minnesota. MDA personnel will be joined by tree experts from partner agencies including the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and University of Minnesota Extension Service.
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The Carnival Fantasy Cruise ship leaves the mouth of the Mississippi River on a 5 day cruise to Mexico. Progresso and Cozumel. October 27 2008 from New Orleans
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The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,320 miles (3,730 km) from the source of its upper portion at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi River is part of the Missouri-Mississippi river system, which is the largest river system in North America and among the largest in the world: By length—3,900 miles (6,300 km)—it is the fourth longest, and by its average discharge of 572,000 cu ft/s (16,200 m³/s), it is the tenth largest.
The name Mississippi is derived from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi (”Great River”) or gichi-ziibi (”Big River”).
From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the flow of the Mississippi River is moderated by 43 dams.
The Mississippi River runs through 10 states and was used to define portions of these states’ borders. The middle of the riverbed at the time the borders were established was the line to define the borders between states. The river has since shifted, but the state borders of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi have not changed; they still follow the former bed of the Mississippi River as of their establishment.
The area of the Mississippi valley was first settled by Native American tribes, such as the Cheyenne, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.
The Cheyenne, one of the earliest inhabitants of the upper Mississippi River, called it the Máˀxe-éˀometaaˀe (Big Greasy River) in the Cheyenne language. However, the word Mississippi comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River).
On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River, which he called Río del Espíritu Santo (”River of the Holy Spirit”), in the area of what is now Mississippi. In Spanish, the river is called Río Mississippi.
The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles (1,579 km) long and is located in the eastern United States.Pearls have a particularly long history in the Midwest. Excavations in the Ohio River Valley revealed fabulous quantities of pearls belonging to the people of the ancient Hopewell culture (200 B.C.-A.D. 500).
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“What we began to observe is that the horse instinctively knows how and when to introduce humans to the unexpected and to the challenges of surpirses and new difficulties. The horse becomes not only a soothing friend but a provocative adversary – what Celtic shamans call an anam cara, or “soul friend,” in Gaelic. It is this combination of soothing our doubts and fears and challenging our entrenched behaviors and beliefs that epitomizes the role of the anam cara. With laserlike precision, the horse easily assumes the role of soul friend, disturbing our comfort by frustrating our demands, withdrawing its compliance, becoming hard to handle, or shocking our rigid and deterministic minds. Thus, the horse is capable of opening doors of awareness that stretch the bounds of human consciousness.” – Horses and the Mystical Path: The Celtic Way of Expanding the Human Soul by Adele von Rust McCormick, Marlena Deborah McCormick, and Thomas E. McCormick p. 6
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“The Dead Zone is a much more complicated problem to solve There’s no controversy about the goal: The quantity of nutrients entering the Mississippi River must be substantially reduce.d But there’s no “big fix” solution to achieve such results. Instead, the solution will require tens of thousands of tiny actions and investments by thousands of farmers, local and county governments, and individual property owners across thirty-two states. Nobody doubts that it will take decades to address the crisis. What’s not certain is whether Gulf ecosystems can wait that long.” – Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas by Colin Woodard p. 125
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1950 Encyclopedia Britannica dramatization of the expedition made by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the land from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.
Produced by Emerson Film Corporation
Public Domain Film
Note: Although Encyclopedia Britannica placed their name upon this film there are several historical inaccuracies. Captain Meriwether Lewis, Presidential-appointed leader of the Expedition, is relegated to a minor role while William Clark portrayed as the main commander. Some of this may be due to the fact that a Clark was the technical advisor. This film also has some mild stereotyping of race and gender typical of the period in which it was created.
You are watching part two of a two-part presentation.
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Filmed in high definition, the soon-to-be-released Gateway Arch DVD Postcard captures a visit to Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It features 20 minutes of beautiful cinematography edited to inspiring music and includes aerials, the Mississippi River, the Old Courthouse and the Museum of Westward Expansion. Packaged in a ready-to-mail mailer for family and friends! Available on location and from www.finleyholiday.com. To learn more about the park, visit www.nps.gov/jeff. For books and DVDs, visit www.jnpa.com.
ABOUT THE PARK Gateway 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. It was from nearby Hartford, Illinois that the Lewis and Clark Expedition departed in 1804.
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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From Security camera on North side. Actual footage of the I35 Minneapolis Minnesota bridge collapsing into the Mississippi River. 8-Lanes.
Provided to CNN by: unknown
“Was not supposed to be released to the public”
At least 50 Cars fell into the river. This occurred right before a Twins baseball game during rush hour. 52 children were rescued by “bystanders.” “Will take years to repair”
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Get Out The Box Celebrates Black History Month!
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