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The Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country for protecting the institution of slavery. The [course_title] is designed to examine every detail of the war including the outcome of the Civil war. You’ll explore a whole of interesting facts about US civil war by enrolling in this course.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: Yale University
Course Curriculum
| 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical | 00:43:00 | ||
| 2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America’s “Peculiar” Region | 00:52:00 | ||
| 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology | 00:51:00 | ||
| 4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement | 00:51:00 | ||
| 5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality | 00:50:00 | ||
| 6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 | 00:53:00 | ||
| 7. “A Hell of a Storm”: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 | 00:48:00 | ||
| 8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 | 00:52:00 | ||
| 9. John Brown’s Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? | 00:52:00 | ||
| 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis | 00:51:00 | ||
| 11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? | 00:50:00 | ||
| 12. “And the War Came,” 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies | 00:47:00 | ||
| 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 | 00:53:00 | ||
| 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 | 00:50:00 | ||
| 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy | 00:52:00 | ||
| 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War | 00:49:00 | ||
| 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: “Hard War” and the Social Impact of the Civil War | 00:51:00 | ||
| 18. “War So Terrible”: Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad | 00:51:00 | ||
| 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings | 00:51:00 | ||
| 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic | 00:49:00 | ||
| 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction | 00:51:00 | ||
| 22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President | 00:52:00 | ||
| 23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor | 00:51:00 | ||
| 24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption” | 00:50:00 | ||
| 25. The “End” of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the “Compromise of 1877” | 00:52:00 | ||
| 26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory | 00:52:00 | ||
| 27. Legacies of the Civil War | 00:49:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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