Angolan Civil War

role of the federal government, the pros and cons of economic growth, and our role as a nation on the global stage. Only one issue, however, has led to civil war in our country– the issue of slavery. When wealthy landowners began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, they created a stark division between blacks and whites. A bloody war was fought to settle the matter, yet we still face issues of race today. Discrimination and racism have divided our nation more than any other,…

citizenship and were prohibited to petition the court for their individual freedom. The importance of the Dred Scott vs. Sanford court case decision set more boundaries and conflicts between the North and South, which would later result in the American civil…

When the Civil War was finally over in the spring of 1865, political leaders wrestled with how to help former slaves make the transition from bondage to citizenship. It means the reconstruction should enable freed slaves to control their labor, reunite with their family members, gain education for their children, enjoy full participation in political life, and create their own community organizations and social life. The Radical Republicans followed southern society model by granting freed…

that it must put an end to the Civil War and the division between the North and…

end of reconstruction, Southern whites wanted to recreate the image of the south as tolerate and humane. This ideology is known as the “lost cause” the lost cause states that the civil war was fought in order to maintain states’ rights and protect the family. The idea of states’ rights being the reason for the civil war created an image of the south as tolerate. As well as restored the souths feeling of bravery, rebellion, and resistance against the national government. The creation of lost…

Abraham Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” ensured freedom and a hope for a better life to the African American community. Three decades later, the idea of a better life had been forgotten. Instead, the Black Americans had begun to endure their suffering, pretending that the unfair laws created by the White Americans were fair. Paul Dunbar describes in his poem, “We Wear the Mask,” the roles that African Americans began to play in life in order to survive. In his poem, you are able to…

community, they were extremely limited on what they were allowed to do. It was different for each culture but a majority of them were just stay at home moms for the children, slaves, and worked on the crops. They were not appreciated like men or men in war were. Living a life of walking on egg shells and being “property” to men was not the time to be alive. They had harsh lives because they were considered but property. The daily life of women in the 1800’s was basically to be there to help…

"Control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively" – What Lincoln was saying here is that he had an idea to put each state responsible for their own state. I think what he wants is to balance the power in each state. His basically removing the power from the federal government to govern the state and to leave it on its own. Unfortunately, it did not last long and as of now federal government is still in control. It was a good idea, but it did not work well.…

conclusion of the American Civil War, the Southern states were decimated, their fields were scorched, their cities lay in ruin, the slave holding social order was dismantled, and the Southern people were forced to face an existence in a union with their former foes. These facets were not lost on the people of the North. However, there was a need for a comprehensive examination of the post war South that would reveal to Northerners the true nature of affairs in the post war South. A recent essay…

Slaves’ War, is an excellent representation of the life African American slaves had before, during, and after the Civil War. Andrew Ward does a remarkable job of piecing together slave accounts of the wars bloodiest days. Throughout countless amounts of research and a collection of interviews, diary pages, letters, and memoirs the story of The Slaves’ War was possible. What is unique to The Slaves’ War, is that it is not only represented from a battlefield perspective like many Civil War books,…