What role did sacred beliefs play in the lives of the
first Americans?

Majority of the groups have practiced religions and had egalitarian social structures while other groups were almost theistic and had hierarchical social structures.  They all had a sacred place where they respect for the land and its features was to be forcefully maintained. Humans were created by a higher power which is known as ‘God’.  Human creation was never considered over the rest of creation but, equal to it, connecting both, spiritually and physically. Mother Earth and Father Sky  provided food and water, but also dared human when a balanced and respectful relationship was not forged or maintained with the rest of the world;  Every Native American, the object still is a means to express  spiritual connection to Earth, to ask for guidance, protection, help, or to simply offer gratitude.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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