Cambodian Civil War

Small ranchers Samuel Jeremiah Jones of the Circle J ranch and Seth (Hoot) Davis of the Slash D were raised in Louisiana living on adjacent plantations southeast of New Orleans and as young masters they had lived a life of the New Orleans rakes. With slaves to attend to all their needs, they lived a life of pleasure, gambling, drinking, and raising hell. They often visited Madam Bordeaux sporting house of soiled doves, an establishment that only the wealthy gained entry. When they were nine…

American nation and lead to the fighting over the future of slavery. There were many factors that caused the American Civil War in 1861, such as the Kansas Nebraska Act, the Compromise of 1850, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the Presidental Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which formed a new political party. In the 1850’s, two key events were primary causes of the Civil War: the Dred Scott Decision and the Abolition movement and it’s literature. Northerners were confronted with the…

it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln is a hero for the citizens of the United States of America because his determination and courage to ending slavery even if it meant. Slavery was the vital cause of the American Civil War. The civil war was between the northern and southern states. The northern states were called the union and the southern states were the confederacy/confederates. The north and the south both had their differences on how to run the country which created…

The North and the South progressed transformational developments differently due to slavery, religion, politics, and economics. The South was very economically reliant on slavery. Many people in the South were farmers and grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and especially cotton. The Cotton Kingdom was growing because of the necessity of that product. Many southerners thought they needed more land because of the global demand for cotton. Many southerners believed that since the Cotton…

continually tear the nation apart was “Is it a right for one man to have ownership over another human being?” This question, originally asked by Quakers on moral and religious grounds, eventually led to a buildup of tension that erupted into The Civil War. In order to grasp the true understanding of what occurred so long ago, it is best to travel even further back in time to the beginning. To the time when the question first began to manifest in the hearts and minds of various colonists across…

The beginning of the Civil War began when President Lincoln sent a fleet of Union ships with supplies to Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the Confederate army fired shots at both the ships and the fort. President Lincoln was hoping for a quick victory, but that was soon destroyed and Lincoln called in for 500,000 Union soldiers. President Lincoln quickly surprised many as a very capable wartime leader. President Lincoln was very choosy about his military commanders, his first commander was,…

After a long and brutal war, known today as the Civil War, the South was left in shambles; a desolated shell of what it once was. The very few large towns and cities that existed there were reduced almost completely to rubble and ash. It would take years to rebuild the South to what it once had been and many were unsure how to do it. This is when the plan for reconstruction was developed. Its main goals were to adopt the southern states back into the Union, rebuild the South to resemble the…

out of proportion, and by the invasion and defeat of the South by "the dirty Yankees", during and after the Civil War. This portrayal is reasonable because slavery remains to this day a stain on the history of our great nation. The movie is based on the book of the same title written by Margaret Mitchell, a native of Georgia who gleaned her knowledge of the war from elderly surviving Civil War veterans. The primary character of the film is Scarlett O 'Hara, an innocent, childish and naïve lady…

into four parts, about the last days of Abraham Lincoln. Part one, “Total War,” starts out…

was president was a hard time in American History, The Civil War. Before Lincoln had become president, he served as a legislator in Illinois; he also ran for U.S. Senate but he lost to Stephen Douglas. It was a memorable time in history because Lincoln went on to become the very first Republican president in the United States. Not only was he known for being the first Republican president, he was also known for leading the Union in the Civil War and leaving victorious. People also usually…