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Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).
In the pre-Civil War years, railways sprouted everywhere, and around 1852 there were railways circling the lake.
With only minor changes, the Church of England was restored to its pre-Civil War constitution under the Act of Uniformity 1662, and the Puritans found themselves sidelined.
As a result, Roswell has more pre-Civil War historical buildings than anywhere else in north Georgia.
In pre-Civil War days, Camden was a bustling river port served by frequent scheduled steamboats carrying passengers and freight.
Rolater Park is known for famous spring water and pre-Civil War cave.
The town of Hogansville has a unique beginning in that it arose from the pre-Civil War plantation of one man, William Hogan.
The brothers also located and opened many of the early roads linking Leavenworth to other important towns in pre-Civil War southern Indiana, including Paoli, Orleans, Bloomington, and Fredonia.
Lecompton played a major historical role in pre-Civil War America as the Territorial capital of Kansas from 1855 to 1861.
By 1921, all of the pre-Civil War buildings had been razed to make way for new, brick-and-stone edifices.
The present-day brick courthouse, built in the Greek Revival style of architecture, is one of only four pre-Civil War courthouses in Louisiana still in use.
The Chataîgnier community's educational background dates back to the pre-Civil War year of 1858 when the first known school, the Onezine Lafleur School, was located in the upper Chataignier community.
Campbell, Missouri has a history going as far back as the pre-Civil War era.
The scow " Mary Berkhead ", was, in pre-Civil War times, the fourth largest on the Great Lakes.
The West Overton Museum in Scottdale is the only pre-Civil War village still intact today in Pennsylvania.
The Historic Downtown Murfreesboro district also offers a wide variety of shopping and dining experiences that encircle the pre-Civil War Courthouse.
" Crossroads ", the first free black community in the Valley in the pre-Civil War years, was founded east of town in the 1850s.
One such structure is an old toll house dating to the pre-Civil War era.
but not really a sequel, and the racial comedy Skin Game, featuring Louis Gossett, Jr. and Garner as con men pretending to be a slave and his owner during the pre-Civil War era.
Although the Creole cuisine is closely identified with New Orleans culture today, much of it evolved in the country plantation estates so beloved of the pre-Civil War Creoles.
The song, originally titled " Dixie's Land ", was made for the closing of a minstrel show ; it spread to New Orleans first, where it was published and became " one of the great song successes of the pre-Civil War period ".
Hooker's reputation as a hard-drinking ladies ' man was established through rumors in the pre-Civil War Army and has been cited by a number of popular histories.
In the United States, jury nullification first appeared in the pre-Civil War era when juries sometimes refused to convict for violations of the Fugitive Slave Act.
It spans the 19th century history of the United States, from the pre-Civil War westward expansion, to the debate over slavery, to the Civil War, to the Industrial Revolution and the Labor Movement which followed.

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Karin and Linford were married in the fall of 1996 in Cincinnati and several years ago relocated to a pre-Civil War farm outside of town.
It was during these pre-Civil war years that the monastery was built, modeled after the Abbey of Melleray.

pre-Civil and South
Historically, it is differentiated from the " Upper South " as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre-Civil War period.
In the pre-Civil War South, slaves were forbidden to use drums because their owners feared of rebellion.
Positioned on an old shipping canal on the Congaree River that dates back to pre-Civil War times, the museum is widely recognized as a resource for South Carolina history and lifestyle.
For historical reasons, the Gadsden flag is still popularly flown in Charleston, South Carolina, the city where Christopher Gadsden first presented the flag, and where it was commonly used during the revolution, along with the blue and white crescent flag of pre-Civil War South Carolina.
Today, the region identifies with the Midwest, but because of Southerners settling there first, the pre-Civil War culture closely paralleled that of the Upper South.
A structure at 432 South Fifth Street is the only example of a pre-Civil War residence remaining Downtown ; built in 1829 it has been converted to commercial use.
A child of the pre-Civil Rights South, Robert Louis Moore was born August 13, 1942.
Unlike these other writers, however, Beecher also addressed racism in his writing, a problem he felt was significant in the pre-Civil Rights Movement South.
The Institute is named for the South Carolina hometown of John Calhoun, and a pre-Civil War hotbed of secession.

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Carl McGill, MA, Professor of Criminal Justice at Phoenix University, in an Aug. 5, 2000 NoCastro. com interview entitled " Candidate Carl McGill Responds to Questions on Cuba ," stated: " Clinton's policy to return ' rafters ' to Cuba is like returning a slave in pre-Civil War America back to his enslaver.
Hale meets and makes close friends with some of his fellow castaways, all of them from different time periods: a young lady named Alice Liddell Hargreaves ( Emily Lloyd ); Mali ( Karen Holness ), a former slave of the pre-Civil War era ; and Lev Ruach ( Jeremy Birchall ), a Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust.

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The Agrarians believed that the Southern tradition, rooted in the pre-Civil War agricultural model, was the answer to the South's economic and cultural problems.
Kuklos Adelphon ( also known as the old K. A., Kappa Alpha, or Kuklos Adelphon of the Southern States ) was a college fraternity widespread throughout the Southern states of the United States in the pre-Civil war period.
William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), a Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) engineering graduate of the class of 1847, was hired by Dr. Francis Mallory build the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad beginning in 1853 and eventually became its president in the pre-Civil War era.
Broyard was descended from pre-Civil War free people of color.
He wrote, “ Jefferson was filled with a sincere, indiscriminate, and unlimited faith in the American people .” However, Croly viewed Jeffersonian democracy as “ tantamount to extreme individualism ,” suitable only for pre-Civil War America when the ideal Americans were pioneers pursuing individual wealth.
The campus contains buildings of red brick and white Corinthian columns, representative of those constructed during the pre-Civil War Antebellum period, when Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia.
A pre-Civil War town, Red Oak was never rebuilt after the war, although the area has not been devoid of growth.
Fort Thunder was a warehouse on the second floor of a pre-Civil War former textile factory in the Olneyville district of Providence, Rhode Island.
He was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the pre-Civil War period, and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.
The club building was apparently designed by Robert E. Lee in his pre-Civil War capacity as a military engineer, although some historians believe that the actual design was done by a subordinate and merely approved by Lee.
His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes, was a writer of household management books and pre-Civil War novels under the name Marion Harland.
Margaret Garner ( called Peggy ) was an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious-or celebrated-for killing her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned to slavery.

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