Army of Northern Virginia

Massachusetts became the first colony to legalize slavery then, Virginia, Connecticut, New York, Maryland and more. There was a war from 1846 to 1848 and it was the American-Mexico…

‘City Upon an Hill’ – When John Winthrop gave his “City Upon a Hill” sermon, the Puritans were still making their way toward the New World. During this time, the Puritans were escaping pressures in England and wished to be able to practice their religion and live under their ideals without the oppression they faced in the Old World. Winthrop’s sermon allowed the Puritans to remain hopeful about their future endeavors in the New World and that their efforts would not be lost. Furthermore, this…

There were a great number of motivations, which contributed to each individual soldiers reasoning behind enlisting in either the Union, or Confederate armies in 1861. Common motivations that I found in For Cause and Comrades included duty, honor, religion, race, peers, family, and most importantly a sense of nationalism. While reading McPherson’s text these factors were so strongly described by the soldiers that they transcended the individual’s desire for safety and home and led these men to…

slavery was essential to the economy of the region, while Northern delegates wanted to make the slave trade illegal. Slavery is seen in the aforementioned Three-Fifths Compromise that gave political representation based on population of the slave states by counting slaves as three-fifths of a person. Another example of slave related controversy seen in the Constitution is the Fugitive Clause. The Fugitive Clause stated that the governments of Northern “free states” were required to capture…

looked for the practice of slavery abhorrent, he knew that neither that people from the north nor the people of the border slave states would agree abolition as a war aim. But by mid-1862, as thousands of slaves left to join the invading Northern armies, Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a urgent military strategy, as well as the morally correct path. On September 22, soon after the north’s victory at Antietam, he issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that…

Colonies in the south like Virginia would bring in hundreds of slaves to work on plantations. Farming, lumber, fur trade, and shipbuilding were the main products of the middle colonies. Slaves were still used in the middle colonies just not as many compared to the south. The Northern colonies used mostly indentured slaves rather than regular slaves because it was less cruel. Indentured slaves volunteered to work for about 5-7 years depending on what they chose. The Northern colonies economy…

Before the 13th amendment that caused to end slavery in the U.S for good, slavery was a great factor to the U.S economy from the birth of the U.S to the end of the civil war. The slaves was a great way of making more money, slaves would be enforce to do labor work with no pay of any kind, this was one the main reasons why the economy would boost up due to the production of non paid labor worker, slaves benefit the economy by production cotton, tobacco, etc... Slavery was one the most huge…

Name: ____Alby Karingada_______________ Period: ___A3___Date:____02/6/2015_____ Notes: • He was a Novelist • Author of uncle tom's cabin, o It was about a slave who is treated badly in 1852 o The book persuaded more northerners and other to be anti-slavery • Noticeable American abolitionist • He was a journalist and social reformer • As an editor of radical abolitionist newspaper o "the liberator" • He was one of the founders of the American anti-slavery society. • Free slave in South…

Settling the Colonies: Discuss the primary motivations for the settling of Massachusetts (New England), Pennsylvania (Middle), and Virginia (Southern) colonies. Land, work, and freedom of religion were all encouraged colonists to settle the New World. As the English Civil War had raged on, religion in England had become extremely unstable, which encouraged many people to travel overseas for sanctuary. Such a colony, Plymouth, in Pennsylvania was founded under the Mayflower compact to tolerate…

minutes his soldiers had killed ten Frenchmen, including one Ensign Jumonville who was the unit’s commander. This battle brought Washington a lot of acclaim in both Virginia and London. Also, during this time period Washington’s Commander, Col. Joshua Fry, died; Which consequently made Washington the Commanding officer of the Virginia regiment. After the battle in which Jumonville was killed, Washington built a small shack at the Great Meadows, near the site of the battle. Soon after though, the…