Abraham Van Helsing

If the south would have won the Civil War the whole United States would have been split into two separate nations. There would be the United States of America and the Confederates States of America. The United States would consist of 39 states. The Confederate States of America would be split into the original 11 seceding states plus the entire West Indies because they would have invaded the West Indies and gained the whole entire West Indies through the technique of attrition. The United States…

incompetent government only interested in doing anything to benefit itself. America has treated the people living within and arriving at the country with discrimination with an incompetent government. Many people suffered continues from racism even after Abraham Lincoln addressed the emancipation proclamation. In fact, the newly…

The year of 1860 marks an extremely pivotal for the United States, namely the election of President Lincoln. Lincoln had always been involved in politics. Many people adored Lincoln, maybe this was because many people felt bad for him. “No man ever had an easier time of it in his early days-in…his young struggles than Lincoln had.” (page 9). This made Lincoln have a lot of financial friends to help him, people literally were fighting to have the honor of helping Lincoln. Many of these people…

An analysis of the Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion, George Fitzhugh’s The blessings of Slavery, and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator reveals that the secession commissioners’ depictions of southern slavery differed from the language Southerners used to describe slavery to Northerners, specific commissioners’ arguments were more persuasive and effective in convincing Southern states to secede, and that Northerners, especially abolitionists, would have responded to the secession…

When Abraham Lincoln was elected into office for the first time in 1860, abolitionism was spreading widely around the Northern States, while many white southerners greatly opposed the movement. In Lerone Bennett Jr.’s article titled Lincoln, a White Supremacist (1968), Bennett presented the main idea that Abraham Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator that the world thought he was, but in fact, a white supremacist. The main purpose of the article was to inform the reader of evidence that proved…

It’s Your Choice: Fight with Us or Suffer Forever Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest leaders, once argued that, “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” (Letter to H.L. Pierce, April 6, 1859). As Lincoln was fighting for freedom for all, he believed that it was morally wrong for one human to own another. He thought it was wrong to take away a chance of independance from others. Lincoln’s views relate to Thomas Paine's beliefs. Paine believed that if someone supports…

Assignment 1 Rebecca L. Horton University of Alaska Anchorage  In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed a theory of psychological health in his paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation". Maslow’s hierarchy is comprised of seven ascending stages. The first four stages are defined as deficiency needs, otherwise known as d-needs. The next set of three stages are described as growth needs. These are necessary to become the best one can be. In order to move along to a higher…

Meredith, James H. "Bragg, Braxton (1817 1876)." In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler, and Jeanne T. Heidler. ABC-CLIO, 2000. Being acerbic, many people thought General Bragg was not fit to lead a large army. James H. Meredith talks about the accounts of why General Bragg was unfit to be a field commander during the Civil War. He was said to have mismanaged all his victories, even though being promoted three times for…

the argument that in order to fully understand martial law and the evolution of its use under emergency powers, one must examine the political history of civil liberties during the time of Andrew Jackson. Furthermore, Washauer raises that President Abraham Lincoln references back to Jackson’s use of military power and suspension of civil liberties during the Civil War noting that it was a common practice to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during a national emergency. Author’s Intent and…

Abraham Lincoln is widely known for his freeing of the slaves and for being the United States sixteenth president but, Lincoln did a lot before his time in presidency. Lincoln was born in Kentucky in February of 1809 to his father Thomas, who did not possess the skill of reading but indeed was a strong father figure even though Abe did not get along very well with him and to Nancy Hanks who died when Abe was small. Abe did numerous chores around the house and farm for a while until he turned…