Cambodian Civil War

Political leaders have to make vital decisions during wartime that they believe will help their side in their war efforts. The Emancipation Proclamation was conceived as a military order that Lincoln believed would increase manpower in the Union Army. The conditions in late 1862 were grim for the Union Army, especially the Eastern Theatre, as the Confederates won the majority of crucial battles in the war so far. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order that changed the status of…

Does “Freedom” Mean Free? The Union’s victory of the Civil War did not bring the previously anticipated peace to the United States. Instead it led to a period of time known as “reconstruction,” which lasted from the end of the war in 1865 to 1877. This period is significant for its radical reforms mixed with racial tensions and divisions. The North won the war and established laws to integrate equality into society. Meanwhile, the South lost the war but was able to manipulate the system and…

aspects of the civil war. One of the most important questions that the civil war creates is: was it inevitable? To find the answer to this question we must first state and analyze the causes of the civil war. In this research paper I will prove that the civil war was inevitable because the free states and the slave states would eventually break out in war since the problems between them would’ve never been solved if the war weren’t waged. Slavery is one of the main causes of the civil war, and…

The North and the works of the Liberator both opposed slavery and heavily shaped the rhetoric of The Civil War. ("The American Civil War: A North-South Divide." The American Civil War: A North-South Divide. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2016.) Northern popular culture depicted Southerners as immoral monsters and brutal, cruel oppressors while abolitionists were depicted as friends and heroes to…

motherland and placed into antebellum slavery. After Abraham Lincoln’s venture to end slavery, the next generation of Cottenhams were given the opportunity to vote and receive a small tract of land. Unfortunately, certain Southern states, crippled by the war, such as Alabama and Mississippi, knew the only way to rebuild their lands was through the re-enslavement of their African neighbors. To work around the new anti-slavery laws, states such as Alabama would arrest any and all young African…

United States History. It was supposed to be one of the most important things to happen to the country after the Civil War, but due to the lack of good leadership, and difficulty of a good compromise between the Democrats and the Republicans, it became a lost cause. The failure of Reconstruction definitely did affect the recently freed African Americans and Republicans. The Civil War was one of the most important events in United States History. It tested America by checking if it can still be…

different viewpoints normally leads to a dispute between individuals. Disputes can range from as simple as debating on which football team is better, to more pensive economical and political issues. A prominent example is the American Civil War. The American Civil War is a result of a dispute between the northern and southern states of America. The southern states were intimidated by the northern states gaining more power and they also feared the abolishment of slavery. As a result, the…

later look back and view the Gettysburg as a decisive turning point in the war, and also as the beginning of the end of the Confederacy. 2. The Conscription Act made a majority of the northerners furious, mainly because of the commutation fee of three hundred dollars to buy their way out of service. That amount of money was an average year’s pay for an unskilled laborer which led to claims that it was a “rich man’s war, and a poor man’s fight.” About a fifth of the men drafted refused to…

Places of their own: African-American Suburbanization by Andrew Wiese examines the forces behind the suburbanization of Black Americans in the 20th century and the challenges they faced in doing so. The author emphasized the importance of black suburbanization for the growth of the 20th century the United States. Establishment of suburbs was critical to the study of Black Americans in the United States. The emergence of suburbs was a representative of the new generation of black American, who…

My paper is about Abraham Lincoln, he was the sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln was born on a farm in Kentucky in 1809. During his childhood, his family moved to Indiana and then to Illinois, while during this moving he worked on farms, in stores, and he studied law as an apprentice. Lincoln was very successful as a politician and a wartime leader because of his strong abilities as a writer and his powerful rhetoric. Lincoln’s political career started with him serving as a…