Yankees were the northern part of America to fight in the civil war the "blue guys"
Any American if it's a foreign war, or Northerners in the U.S. Civil War.
In the civil war, the North was called the Union.
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Yankee is a term given to people who fought for the North during the civil war.
The Union soldiers in the Civil War were sometimes called "yankees" or "yanks." The Confederate soldiers were sometimes called "rebels" or "rebs."
There was no New York Yankees in the civil war. They were invented in the early 1900's.
at war the u.s. called themselves the Yankees
They got the name because during a war the north was called the Yankees.
Some Yankees were Caucasian; some were African American. Their uniforms were blue.
Yankees were supposedly against slavery, but the main reason this was said was to gain European sympathies during the Civil War. The war was started because the Union (yankees) wanted to keep the southern states from becoming the Confederate States of America.
In the civil war, the North was called the Union.
northerners during the american civil war. also the new york yankees a major league baseball team
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The Confederates (South)
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by killing yankees.