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In AP US History, “Ride with the Devil” was viewed by the class. Ang Lee directed the movie while Anne Carey, associate producer, Robert F. Colesberry, producer, Ted Hope, producer, David Linde, executive producer, and James Schamus, producer all produced it in 1999. Starring in it was Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker, and Jonathon Rhys Meyers. The purpose for viewing the movie was to compare it with what the class was reading in their textbook. It was 1862 and the pro-Confederate Bushwhackers are engaging in guerilla warfare along the Kansas/Missouri border against Union forces. Jack Bull Chiles and Jake Roedel are childhood friends who supported the Bushwhackers, despite Jake being a German immigrant whose father was decidedly pro-Union. Nonetheless, after Jayhawkers murdered Chiles’ father, the two young men joined a band of such guerilla fighters. Led by Black John, Roedel and Chiles, along with fellow Bushwhackers Pitt Mackeson, Turner Rawls, George Clyde, and his former slave, Daniel Holt, set out to disrupt the Union activities and consequently get into several le