Battle of Fort Sumter

south stemmed from issues regarding slavery. When President Lincoln, an abolitionist, was elected, the south immediately succeeded from the Union. The Civil War started with the Confederates attacking the Union early in Lincoln’s presidency at Fort Sumter. President Lincoln was fighting against the Confederates to bring the Union back together, along with his other goal of abolishing slavery. He did not advertise the goal of abolishing slavery because it would have created more tension, and less…

President Abraham Lincoln played a huge role in the Civil War. One of his biggest goals was to mobilize resources. Who ever had the most resources had the best chance of winning the war. Soon after the south attacked Fort Sumter, Lincoln decided to build a naval blockade of the south. This only became effective very late in the war. Another role President Abraham Lincoln played in the Civil War, was figuring out a way to defeat the south with army that was not nearly as…

which was fighting to preserve the statehood and the continuity of the United States of America, and the Confederacy which was fighting to preserve their economic interests and in justifying the practice of slavery with it. From the initial battle at Fort Sumter, to the final stages of the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederate forces suffered heavy losses economically, politically, and socially. A rough estimate of about 1,125,000 lives combined fought in the bloodiest war every fought…

Why were Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln such strong staples in history? When considered separately they seem to be two completely different individuals but, when compared side by side there is much common ground between the two. Both of these men had suffered the death of a parent at a relatively young age. Also they were assassinated after a great victory, coincidentally the pair died at the age of fifty-six years old. Their assassins were carried out by people who had disagreed with the way…

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America and is regarded as one of the most courageous politicians of our time. Lincoln astonished the nation with his eloquence during his presidency, while emancipating slavery and being the savior of the nation while it was at war with itself. President Lincoln held presidency that all nations strive to achieve today. On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgeville, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.…

that let their feuds with each other blind their eyes from the love their children have for each other. Under these circumstances where better to set my paper than in Virginia during the brink of the Civil War, the war in which some of the bloodiest battles ever fought on U.S. soil accrued in, and the nation was split pinning family against family and brother against brother. I chose to set my “Romeo and Juliet” in Virginia, in 1861.The Confederate States started to secede from the union on…

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, provided a pivotal and solemn warning to the crumbling nation in his Inaugural Address—preceding the Civil War by a mere month and eight days: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you…. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”1 In Lincoln’s…

Railroads and the Telegraph The railroad system opened many opportunities for the improvement of American society. New areas could be settled towards the west, the mining of coal for fuel increased, and more iron was being manufactured for rails. The nation’s first commercial railroads, which began construction in 1828, were called the Baltimore and Ohio. Soon after, the South Carolina Canal and Railroad became the first long-distance transportation to be used. By 1860, the United States had…

from the U.S. and formed their own government, which was called the Confederate States of America. He served as president from March 4th, 1861 - April 15th, 1865, until he was assassinated. On April 12, 1861, Confederate soldiers fired on Fort Sumter which was a fort in South Carolina, began the civil War. He led the war, trying to keep the country united. So during the war, he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were…

John Brown devised a plan to incite a slave rebellion in the Appalachian Mountains, arming slaves as they were freed and 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…