American civil religion

The North and the South progressed transformational developments differently due to slavery, religion, politics, and economics. The South was very economically reliant on slavery. Many people in the South were farmers and grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and especially cotton. The Cotton Kingdom was growing because of the necessity of that product. Many southerners thought they needed more land because of the global demand for cotton. Many southerners believed that since the Cotton…

Abolitionism in the African American community began after slavery was abolished in the northern states of the United States. These emancipated slaves formed their own communities and offered unorganized help to fugitive slaves who happened along their paths. Through time, African Americans began to form Anti Slavery societies to work towards the freedom of enslaved men and women and to protect the rights of free blacks. During the era of the Fugitive Slave Law, Boston abolitionists were known…

The beginning of the Civil War began when President Lincoln sent a fleet of Union ships with supplies to Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the Confederate army fired shots at both the ships and the fort. President Lincoln was hoping for a quick victory, but that was soon destroyed and Lincoln called in for 500,000 Union soldiers. President Lincoln quickly surprised many as a very capable wartime leader. President Lincoln was very choosy about his military commanders, his first commander was,…

After a long and brutal war, known today as the Civil War, the South was left in shambles; a desolated shell of what it once was. The very few large towns and cities that existed there were reduced almost completely to rubble and ash. It would take years to rebuild the South to what it once had been and many were unsure how to do it. This is when the plan for reconstruction was developed. Its main goals were to adopt the southern states back into the Union, rebuild the South to resemble the…

out of proportion, and by the invasion and defeat of the South by "the dirty Yankees", during and after the Civil War. This portrayal is reasonable because slavery remains to this day a stain on the history of our great nation. The movie is based on the book of the same title written by Margaret Mitchell, a native of Georgia who gleaned her knowledge of the war from elderly surviving Civil War veterans. The primary character of the film is Scarlett O 'Hara, an innocent, childish and naïve lady…

through the final days of the Civil War, and what lead to the eventual defeat of the Confederates, and the surrender of Robert E. Lee at the end of part one. “The Ides of Death” is the title of part two. This section begins on April 10 with the aftermath and celebration of the Union victory in the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth is plotting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, along with other members of his cabinet. Booth had been planning to kidnap Lincoln during the Civil War to help the…

in which he was president was a hard time in American History, The Civil War. Before Lincoln had become president, he served as a legislator in Illinois; he also ran for U.S. Senate but he lost to Stephen Douglas. It was a memorable time in history because Lincoln went on to become the very first Republican president in the United States. Not only was he known for being the first Republican president, he was also known for leading the Union in the Civil War and leaving victorious. People also…

onslaught against us. He makes a point that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Roosevelt also had faith that the U.S. was ready to go to war with Japan. This speech, which was broadcast for the nation to hear, sent a message to all Americans that we were not going to sit and do nothing. It show everyone that we were going to fight back and sparked a fire in everyone’s heart. This fire was to not back down and for everyone to do their part in helping the war effort. Many men…

the force that could turn Georgia into a war zone and Augusta into ash? The answer, simply put, is nothing more than a book. In 1862, as the United States of America was experiencing the catalyst of social change that would later become known as the Civil War, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe was given the opportunity to meet with President Abraham Lincoln. It’s reported that when Stowe and Lincoln saw each other in person, Lincoln was quick to ask Stowe, “So you…

I’m part of one of the biggest groups that conform this country, I am an immigrant, I came to this country 4 years ago, at 2011 from Peru, but I was born in Argentina, sorry if I have a lot of misspellings. The way those countries taught me their national history is very different from the way Dr. Klein is teaching us about US history, I’ve never been in college in one of those countries so I will talk about the way teachers from middle school and high school taught me about national history and…