Angolan Civil War

The Civil War was a battle of controversy and the interpretations of the Civil War remain contentious even today. The American Civil War represented decades of malevolence between the northern and southern states and their fights for what they valued. While many argue that slavery was the only cause of the civil war, others say that the Civil War was caused ultimately by disagreement in economic and political standpoints. Both are essentially correct. Slavery was in fact a main issue that…

The war caused a need in factories in which required factories employers to seek more workers from the South as a way to hire cheap labor. The blacks would take the jobs the whites wouldn’t take because of the wages so, the fluctuation of people from the South…

On April 12, 1861 the Southern Confederate forces declared war on the Northern Union forces at Fort Sumner in South Carolina after opening fire for 36 hours. Over the next four years, until April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered after the capture of Richmond, VA, was a gruesome war between North and South. Issues of trade, tariffs, state rights, and most importantly, slavery, were all reasons behind the declaration of war. Over the course of the four years, about 2.75 million men four for…

the oppression and dehumanizing treatment that Jim and African Americans as a whole faced on a daily basis to condemn society 's hypocritical nature. During the 1800s, African American slaves were brutally oppressed, ruthlessly denied the most basic civil rights, and savagely beaten to submission. Linda Brent depicts a slave’s viewpoint in the Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl with “We are dogs here; foot-balls, cattle, every thing that’s mean. No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We…

Lee was born in 1807, to a Revolutionary War Hero named “Light Horse Harry Lee.” Lee attended West Point University where he graduated second in his class, in 1829. Little did he know he would later fight against and with members of his class in the Civil War. In 1847, Lee served in General Winfield Scott 's army as the Chief Engineer of the main invasion army during the Mexican-American War. Lee proved himself a combat leader by working around challenges that seemed…

based on race have been very prevalent throughout the course of American history. Since the American Civil War, freed slaves were put through the ruthless throes of the bitter American Public, and today’s modern African American citizens are still not immune to the microaggressions that remain through stereotypes and internalized racism. Throughout the whole of American history, black Americans…

The outbreak of the Civil War was brought on by a number of issues, acts and debates throughout the 1850’s and early 1860’s. However, the event that was the kickoff for these major turning events in history was the Mexican-American War. It was a national debate regarding whether slavery should enter the country, when the United States needed to determine what to do with the land they gained from the war. After the war, leaders in the 1850s began to compromise. Their compromises did nothing to…

win the election, party leaders always ignore African Americans. Fryer also talk historically about African American interest was captured. In the late 1850s, Republican enacted a number of civil rights legislation and give blacks the vote right. African Americans then joined Republican, but after the Civil War, white in the South began to violence against black, blacks became captured and silent group in Republican. Then between 1965 and 1996, the democratic leaders try to absorb blacks but…

Slavery is a subject that we all have learned about throughout our years in school, however it was never taught with much detail or major depth. We were taught the basics and time periods and what and who ended slavery. What I do not recall is learning about what happened the years right after, it seems like slavery ended and then fast forward to the mid-1900 and then there was segregation. The Pbs documentary “Slavery by Another name” takes you to the years after slavery was “abolished” and…

The American Civil War is perhaps one of the most written about topics in the field of history, and there are certainly many who devote their time to the events preceding it. In Rachel A. Shelden’s book, Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War, tells a story beyond the events individuals are familiar with. Rather, Shelden discusses the events during the Antebellum period through a social and personal lens of Washington’s political aristocracy. In doing so,…