The Civil WarII - Causes
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Underlying Causes of the American Civil War [STEPS](Click on the u orange arrows to reveal more information)
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Going DeeperThe following links will help you widen your knowledge: Basic accounts from BBC Bitesize
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IMPACTS OF THE GOLD RUSH
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Source ACapricious humiliation When did I become an activist? Was it that day when I was twelve years old and bent over to pump air into my bicycle tires at a Gulf station on Terry Road, and a big white guy skipped up from behind and kicked me over? When I turned to ask, ‘Why’ his smug answer, ‘Cause I wanted to’, made a lasting impression... I soon started doing small things to defy the system. Coded message sent 16 January 1917.
Source BI spent four years in the Army to free a bunch of Dutchmen and Frenchmen, and I’m hanged if I’m going to let the Alabama version of the Germans kick me around when I get home. No sireebob! I went into the army a nigger; I’m coming out a man. Coded message sent 16 January 1917.
Source CIf you're white, you're right; if you're brown stick around; if you're black, stay back. A Black folk-saying which featured as a line in Black, Brown and White by Big Bill Broonzy (1946). |
What did America contribute to the war effort? [ANSWER]
They point out that:
In March 1917 Click here for the interpretation
EVENTS – the Political Battle
towards Native Americans and Mexicans |
Going DeeperThe following links will help you widen your knowledge: Basic accounts from BBC Bitesize
Voices - IWM
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Source BWe Coded message sent 16 January 1917.
Did You KnowThe first .
Consider:Study Source A and pull out all the different reasons Wilson gives for accepting 'the status of belligerent' (declaring war).
Source B
Consider:Was America a 'war-winning-weapon'?
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