Cambodian Civil War

The Mexican-American War was result of this belief and this caused a lot of suffering for many Mexicans, as well as many Native Americans. The second cause of the Mexican-American war was the Texas War of Independence from Mexico. In 1836, after Mexico won independence from Spain, Texas rebelled against the Mexican government to become free and with the help of…

simple man from Kentucky taught himself how to read and write, became a lawyer and eventually President. He divided the country and united it again. In one term he built the roadway to rights for African Americans that would eventually become The Civil Rights Movement. This simple man from Kentucky is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President of these United States. Lincoln was a firm believer in equality and that just as it says in the constitution “all men are created equal” as visible in his…

renaissance who often wrote romance and religious poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that was said to have caused the civil war due to…

like animals. The Civil War was the start of the dispute between states in the United States. The United States were split into the North and South because the North began to realize how awful slavery really is. African Americans were stripped of their rights, but the South did not care because they wanted slaves for their hard labor. As African Americans were still continuing with no rights, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, decided to save them by winning the Civil War and abolishing…

The Civil War was a battle of controversy and the interpretations of the Civil War remain contentious even today. The American Civil War represented decades of malevolence between the northern and southern states and their fights for what they valued. While many argue that slavery was the only cause of the civil war, others say that the Civil War was caused ultimately by disagreement in economic and political standpoints. Both are essentially correct. Slavery was in fact a main issue that…

The war caused a need in factories in which required factories employers to seek more workers from the South as a way to hire cheap labor. The blacks would take the jobs the whites wouldn’t take because of the wages so, the fluctuation of people from the South…

On April 12, 1861 the Southern Confederate forces declared war on the Northern Union forces at Fort Sumner in South Carolina after opening fire for 36 hours. Over the next four years, until April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered after the capture of Richmond, VA, was a gruesome war between North and South. Issues of trade, tariffs, state rights, and most importantly, slavery, were all reasons behind the declaration of war. Over the course of the four years, about 2.75 million men four for…

the oppression and dehumanizing treatment that Jim and African Americans as a whole faced on a daily basis to condemn society 's hypocritical nature. During the 1800s, African American slaves were brutally oppressed, ruthlessly denied the most basic civil rights, and savagely beaten to submission. Linda Brent depicts a slave’s viewpoint in the Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl with “We are dogs here; foot-balls, cattle, every thing that’s mean. No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We…

Lee was born in 1807, to a Revolutionary War Hero named “Light Horse Harry Lee.” Lee attended West Point University where he graduated second in his class, in 1829. Little did he know he would later fight against and with members of his class in the Civil War. In 1847, Lee served in General Winfield Scott 's army as the Chief Engineer of the main invasion army during the Mexican-American War. Lee proved himself a combat leader by working around challenges that seemed…

based on race have been very prevalent throughout the course of American history. Since the American Civil War, freed slaves were put through the ruthless throes of the bitter American Public, and today’s modern African American citizens are still not immune to the microaggressions that remain through stereotypes and internalized racism. Throughout the whole of American history, black Americans…