Army of the Potomac

Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis gives us six insightful vignettes of leaders of the early American Republic. The author reminds us that the founders did not know whether their creation would last. They did know that it was historic, that it was fragile and that it was a bold experiment. We have to judge them and their actions in that context, in light of what they knew not what has since come to be…

The Union Falls 1.Explain the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the slavery issue. An abolitionist Harriet Beecher wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin the book. The novel illustrated slavery. Even though it was fiction, it is base on the true reality of slave’s lives. This allowed novel was an eye opener for the northern to see how slavery truly was and empathize with the enslaved. 2. Describe the chaos and impact of the events collectively called “Bleeding Kansas” (including the border ruffians, Sack of…

Both were members of Washington"'"s cabinet¡ªJefferson was secretary of state and Hamilton was secretary of treasury. Hamilton was somber and haggard, a mood unlike his personality. The reason for this mood was because his financial plan for recovery of public credit was trapped in congressional gridlock. Congressman James Madison managed to block its approval based on the key point of assumption. Assumption is when state debts are assumed by the federal government. Hamilton thought that if…

pushing on to free more men, the army of former slaves growing drastically as it rolled along (Stoddard and Murphy, 15). Slave rebellions had failed miserably in the past, but Brown's idea of properly arming the slaves gave some abolitionists the idea that it could work. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a group of twenty-two men into Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, to secure weapons from the federal armory stationed in the small town nestled between the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers…

South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond famously wrote in March of 1858 to fellow Senator William H. Seward of New York, “No, you dare not make war on cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.” Cotton was chief to the South’s economy, and was spearheaded by 1793’s invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, allowing for a single worker to clean fifty times more cotton than previously possible. Similarly, Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher, said, “The…

The definition of a good leader doesn’t always have a one-size-first-all definition, but the one thing that is constant is what the individual will leave behind, their legacy. Webster defines a leader as “someone or something that leads.” (Leader, 2015) President Lincoln is regarded as one of America’s greatest military and presidential leaders. His expression of democracy and insistence that the Union was worth saving symbolized the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve.…

Our Country, the American Fabius, the first president of the United States—there is no shortage of myths surrounding him. There’s the classic myth of him chopping down a cherry tree, and there’s also one of him throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River. Another about his wooden teeth. There’s also this mythos that he was the greatest man to have ever lived or the most wholly ineffectual and overrated president as of yet. And as the gap between history and the present yawns, with fewer…

What is Arlington National Cemetery? Why does it matter to us in present-day American civilization? Many people ask these questions, and others that are similar, when the topic is brought up, because they lack an understanding of, or knowledge of, the answers. What those people don’t see is that Arlington is much more than a large patch of land filled with hunks of rocks and chunks of stone buried in the ground. Arlington is actually many other, more important things: a place of rest for some, a…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…