Army of Northern Virginia

In the text, “Women in the Civil War,” women‘s indirect role of the creating of a foundation is described, “Women came together in over seven thousand Northern societies to form the U.S. Sanitary Commission…They raised money for medical supplies and trained nurses. They held bazaars and fairs to raise money to help the widows, disabled soldiers, and orphans left behind” (Women Women). According to the text…

Concord, Allen and Arnold would lead the Green Mountain Boys to successfully capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British on May 10th, as the Second Continental Congress had been meeting in Philadelphia to officially name a Commander in Chief of their army, George Washington, as well as to plan a unified way for them to successfully defeat and push the British out of the…

Slavery in America is nothing to be taken lightly or forgotten. The origins of slavery go all the way back to its colonization by Europeans. The first permanent English colony in North America was Jamestown, Virginia. This colony became extremely successful from the introduction of cash crops like tobacco and cotton. Because of these labor-intensive cash crops the southern colonies had high demands for workers, and to keep profit up and cost down the land owners/lords looked towards slavery.…

symbol of animosity it is part of their heritage. The Confederate Flag seen today is not the one used when the Confederacy was in power during the 1860’s. The flag people see today is a battle flag that was used by Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia (Jessica Taylor, Jun. 23, 2015). Other people argue that if the U.S banned the flag and took it away forever the country would lose that part of it’s history and that it should be kept in a museum to preserve that part of U.S history.…

Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s , The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, is an analysis of the actions Lincoln took while in office as the sixteenth President of the United States. This book also explains the motives and agenda of Lincoln during his tenure in office. Over sixteen thousand books and articles have been written on Lincoln; however, these publications are all myths that are being debated upon by scholars daily. Moreover, The Real Lincoln was wrote…

civilizing the new world meant illuminating darkness, organizing chaos, and transforming evil into good. They constantly referred to the wilderness in military terms describing it as “an enemy which had to be conquered, subdued, and vanquished by a pioneer army” (Nash 101). It became essential to gain control over nature. Even though biblical stories do not define man’s fear of the wilderness during this time, the use of logic still depicts the wilderness as a form of…

articles were successful in establishing a first draft for a constitution but failed in many other aspects. For example, under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government did not have the power to tax the states and they did not have a national army. They established…

all slaves were to be made free, it reaffirmed the beliefs of the declaration of independence about equality (Kolchin 202). The Emancipation of slaves hit the Southern economy, undermined the ability of confederates to wage the war and the Federal army made use of slaves who were eager to strike the confederacy for freedom. The Civil War put an end to slavery, the American congress voted a constitutional amendment, 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery early in 1865. The ratification of the…

The northern viewpoint was that the South was so vehemently against abolition that they seceded from the Union. In 1929, in an effort to get their story out and to inform future generations, a movement in the South created the Confederate Catechism, a document…

December 8, 1941. Were deliberate attacks on civilians during the Second World War act of terrorism? Yes it was, On April 26, 1937, German planes and different warplanes assaulted Guernica, a town population around seven thousand individual persons in northern Spain. This attack was a piece of the Spanish Civil War, battled just before…