Abraham Simpson

brotherhood. And this is part of his dream that has came true. And he made sure his purpose was heard because he was making everyone in the audience aware of what was happening. Martin Luther King Jr thesis statement was clear because he said 100 years ago Abraham Lincoln sign a paper to free the slaves but it’s been 100 years later and nothing has changed. And we need to do something because nobody else…

There is bunch of racism all over America. But now it is starting to be brought into school where there are chances of mascots that will be “racist” to people at certain high schools. The Port Townsend High School in Washington state had a particular situation about racism in the name just like the “RedSkins” that turned their name into the “RedHawks” they were losing their trademark protection after the US Patent and trademark Office ruled that the name is disparaging to…

Imagine being captured by someone with no way of knowing if you would come back out of the situation alive. How would you feel? Most would feel terrified at that point; not knowing if they will live or die. When someone is captured by someone else and lives to tell of their story, that is called a captivity narrative. A captivity narrative explains the author's experiances of when they were kidnapped; like how they get separated from their family, not know if they will ever see them again.…

After reading about Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, and Civil Disobedience I found that they all related to each other in many ways. For example they all felt that every man, woman or child should be free no matter the color of their skin. I feel that in this period of time any refusal to comply with laws was called. (Civil Disobedience) First off, Nat Turner was an educated slave whom thought he was receiving messages from god. His visions lead him to lead a rebellion group of slaves. I believe…

During the late eighteen hundreds things were changing rapidly. Many states had left the Union and opinions about slavery was dividing communities apart. One man called Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer from Kentucky was elected presidency in 1860, even though only had 40% of the popular vote as stated in www.history.com. When Lincoln was elected it caused some southern states to leave the Union and form their own nation. John Wilkes Boothe was one of the many haters of Lincoln. Boothe was violently…

Many historians have studied the way the Civil War unfolded and how the south could have possibly won if the southern generals executed Fabian warfare. This war technique has the offensive army retreating deeper and deeper into their territory, thus causing the defensive army to have longer supply lines and exhaustion sweep the soldiers. Although Fabian warfare sparks mass discussion, Robert Tanner does not agree with the notion the Confederate nation could have won using this tactic. The…

Slavery has been described as one of the darkest times in American history. The tensions of racial superiority throughout America is still not completely resolved today. Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to share his experiences with slavery in America in the hopes that it would change the views on the acceptability of slavery. His goal was to inform those in the north of the horrible acts of slavery occurring in the south. His personal experiences of slavery reflected…

The primary purpose of including birthright citizenship in the fourteenth amendment was to ensure citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War, which angered many confederate sympathizers and pro-slavery advocates. The status quo pre-Civil War deemed that African slaves were not citizens, but rather less than human. The very foundations of America legitimized treating slaves as fungible commodities rather than equal people. The earliest controversies of the United States focused on the value…

The biggest myth about Abraham Lincoln is the perception of his views on slavery and the idea that he was the “Great Emancipator” (Zilversmit). Lincoln is often put on a pedestal when it comes to the topic of slavery. Countless Children’s books and grade school level textbooks have credited him for ending slavery. Even some authors of Abraham Lincoln biographies have written him down as the freer of slaves, such as the author of The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Josiah Gilbert Holland, who wrote: “he…

the American legal system. The United States Surpreme Court denied .undermined the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and in return infuriated the Northern abolitionists. The Dred Scott case became a rallying point for them and helped with the election of Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860. In 1858 Lincon was nominated for a seat in the United States Senate. In his nomination speech Lincoln said " A house divided cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and…