History of the United States I / Unit 17 USH1 2430 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Where People Ended Up
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The idea
The Irish made up half of New York and Boston by the eighteen fifties, and the South held nearly four million enslaved people by eighteen sixty.
In practice
The Confederacy counting those four million as part of its strength.
Where people slip
Unit 15 covers what that arithmetic meant. Over one hundred and ninety thousand of them fought for the Union.
Your place on the trail
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