Cambodian Civil War

South that “the Union [would] constitutionally defend, and maintain itself” (Lincoln). He saw war as an act of self-defense to protect the Union, and was convinced the Constitution would allow him to spill blood for the sake of unity. However, the South disregarded this warning and seceded knowing that they would likely have a war. Indeed at the Battle of Fort Sumter, the South fired the first shots in the civil. The fort had been held by Major Anderson from the Union, which the South saw as…

privileges and rights that were bestowed upon Caucasian Americans to be upon their people as well. There have been many attempts and loopholes used to disenfranchise African Americans, attempting to keep them as close to slavery as possible. Since the Civil War, that gave African Americans the new title of ‘freedmen’ in which they were legally no longer slaves, many a things changed for them some in a good perspective and some in a bad one. Not to say there were not setbacks, but improvements…

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). In our country 's weakest decade, one woman moved an immensely corrupt society. Abraham Lincoln referred to her as, “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war” (Stowe). Harriet Beecher Stowe first published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. She inspired her audience by unmasking the calamity of slavery. This novel quickly became the second best seller, right behind the Bible. Written in the perspective of a…

Man of The Mountain” as Hurston was writing in an artistic movement centered on the concept of capturing the experience of African Americans, which to that point consisted of the horrors of slavery and the Reconstruction Era. With presence of World War II, the concept of oppression and cruelty was fresh in the minds of the general public due to the injustices committed by the Nazi party in Germany and the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. To help relate these relevant issues to the African…

Hart Benton (Elbert B. Smith (1921–2013). While the book itself did not win any awards, Elbert Smith won the Phi Alph Theta book award for this work because Elbert “presents important new evaluations for the consideration of students of both the Civil War and the presidency. ( The Presidency of James Buchanan).…

Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father of this nation and drafted the historical Deceleration of Independence, as well as a strong supporter of the Constitution. However, overtime he slowly doubts the morals and sustainment of the Union, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 is what truly set Thomas Jefferson on a path of doubt for the future of the Union. Slavery, a rising issue that is the thorn in the side of all political policies. Is it a necessary evil or a concept that must be eradicated…

Frederick Douglass otherwise known as Bailey was born a slave in 1817. Brought in the world of slavery at only a young age of eight years of age, he learned to read and write from his mistress which was illegal. His giftedness lead him to speak at on anti-slavery in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1841. His articulate speaking lead him to be employed by an agent of Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass became one of the most notable abolitionists in the United States in…

to a world power. The American values of individualism and democracy were neither completely enhanced or diminished by modernity because while many strides were made to improve these qualities, the pre-World War I sentiment of reform was destroyed. All of the destruction caused by World War I scared the American people enough to halt the era of reformation and actually did diminish democracy and individuality from a standpoint of who and what was heard and supported. Despite this, the emergence…

Justification for Publication Rationale for Organization: The documents are grouped according to their perspective- economic, political, or moral cause of the Civil War. The first three Documents (A, B, C) all have economic motives behind them. Document A, Hammond’s speech, presents a pro-slavery perspective arguing that slavery used for cotton production is necessary for a thriving economy. Document B, Helper’s Impending Crisis of the South, follows Document A with an anti-slavery perspective,…

held to the principle that all African Americans, as moral human beings, were entitled to equal civil liberties. Thus, they adamantly avowed that social, civil, and political equality for African Americans were indisputable rights, not privileges. In her Letters to Catherine Beecher, Angelina cogently explained her enlightened understanding and beliefs regarding emancipation and African American civil rights. She stressed that emancipation should unequivocally consist of “freedom for the slave,”…