American Civil War

A phrase frequently tossed around in the United States is “Hindsight is twenty-twenty”. We can’t be sure of how this phrase materialized, especially with the war of British and Americans being an explicit contradiction. There are a plethora of factors that justify the extensive clashing dialogues concerning the motivations of British defeat. Great British minds alike presented equally convincing arguments that condemned and combated that of their peers. A ubiquitous idea discussed in the…

REVOLUTIONARIES WAR There were African American troops that marched with George Washington. In 1815 they served under Andrew Jackson in New Orleans against the British. CIVIL WAR It was not until the Civil War that there was a large number of African Americans in the military. When the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, many African Americans wanted to join the Union army. Sometime in 1862 Colonel Higginson from Massachusetts was given command of the First Regiment…

1860s, many Native Americans moved west in a journey called the Trail of Tears. Many Native Americans in the west died due to starvation and disease. The Native American population continued to dwindle. As war and expansion continued throughout history, Native Americans began submit to white rule. Native Americans in the west went from violently resisting whites in the 1860s to appeasing whites by the Reconstruction period because of the Civil War. In the 1860s, Native Americans in the west…

War is hell, yet civil war remains the deepest pit of this inferno. For it is civil war where brothers break bonds and murder the ones that they so loved. American history has been plagued with a dark past of cultural divide. There have been a plethora of stories about the tragedy of the union north fighting against the confederate south. This time period was a catastrophic storm that broke the very foundation which our nation was founded upon. Many lives had been lost in an effort to determine…

The African American Spiritual is a folksong with biblical tales as the basis, and is typically associated with slavery in the South around the Civil War. Spirituals have come to be a recognized genre, but how? There are many ways to answer that, but I’m going to only go into three. Spirituals came to be recognized by its roots in Southern plantations, it’s performance by public groups and well-known soloists, and its performance and adaptation in modern music and society. The first way…

sees that he is in the middle of a war, or more specifically, the Mexican American War. In this dream, Edward Emerson is the youthful drummer boy, Sam Staples is a sergeant, and Ball is a general. As soon as Henry is offered a gun and told to fight he tells them that he won't. Williams, who is now a Mexican soldier, appears, and the American troops attack him. When he gets away, Henry is relieved, but his fellow soldiers aren't. He begs the president to stop the war, but he continues to ignore…

On this occasion a great typhoon destroyed the mongol fleet, saving Japan from Foreign conquest. The Japanese believed the gods sent the typhoon and named it kamikaze or ‘Divine Wind’. (‘Origin of kamikaze’) Kamikaze pilots in World War Two were young men between the ages of 18 and 24 who crash dived planes loaded with explosives, into allied ships. These men were raised to believe that sacrificing their lives for the emperor was a great honor. They believed they were honored like…

Blacks were brought to the American colonies as slaves where they faced lifelong bondage, cruelty, and poverty. Though Blacks were freed after the Civil War, their journey to complete citizenship and civil rights was a long and difficult one. Discrimination and its injustices towards Blacks were addressed by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government. Four amendments were ratified and placed in the constitution to give blacks their civil rights. The…

Union soldiers crossed Cove Creek, and I understood how much pain a soldier can take no matter what their going through. We were now at Van Buren. As we arrived, Noah stole ham from a Negro. I really didn't care because I was hungry. I learned that war really does change people. Later that day, I walked along a river. A Negro then approach me and asked for help. He took me to a dying man. When the dying Negro saw my uniform, he said, “I praise God.” It had finally came to my attention that the…

The years after the American Civil War have been characterized by Mark Twain and others as “The Gilded Age”. By this statement he means, this period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. Historians have come to the conclusion that there was a decline of human value and low morals from 1870-1910. This was a period of greed, corruption, with Robber Barons, shady business tactics, and horrible political power. However, this era was the making of the modern world. We now have…