7 key skills of a project manager. Before discussing what the key skills for a project manager might be we really need to define what we mean by project management. A definition of project management would be the planning, organizing and then management of the resources required to complete a specific task.
Poor Wilmer McLean could not escape the Civil War. The conflictâs first major battle damaged one of his homes, and in an incredible historical coincidence, the house to which he had moved his family for safety was ransacked after hosting Confederate General Robert E. Leeâs surrender 150 years ago.
1 SUMMARY. The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolina troops fired on the federal Fort Sumter in Charleston. 2  After 1800 the cotton economy in the South gave new life to the institution of slavery as slave labor became ever more valuable. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 up held the balance between slave states and free states while prohibiting slavery north of the 36Â°30' parallel.