Cary Grant

George E. Pickett Kallee Hinton George Pickett was born on January 25, 1825 in Richmond, Virginia. When George was born he was the oldest child of Robert and Mary Pickett. At the age of 17 George received an invitation to the United States Military Academy and graduated last in his class. After graduation Pickett was immediately asked to go into the Mexican-American War. After the war Pickett continued to serve in the US Military, and he was assigned to the Washington Territory. During the…

What was the idea of the New South and how successful was it? Cheyenne (Varner) Richardson The New South was a reconstruction to get the South back on its feet, economically speaking. Much of the area had been damaged in the war, down to whole cities being wiped out. There was also the problem of freeing African-Americans from slavery. After the Civil War ended, the United States had to reintegrate both a formerly slave population and a formerly rebellious population back…

Reconstruction is an era in United States history that can be defined by the period of time immediately following the Civil war when the Government decided that the defiant southern states could be apart the Union again. In the south, this period can be characterized by freedom for the slaves, but it unfortunately came at a cost. These slaves were subjected to terrible prejudice, unfair laws, and struggled for the right to vote. Abraham Lincoln, the president during the civil war was…

So many proud men have held the office of the United Sates of America but who is considered the best president of all time?Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States and by most is considered the best president ever in office.Abe had many acomplisments while in office he defeated the south in the american civil war, by doing that he ended slavery, and he started and made the plans for reconstruction.There has been may presidents with great acomplishments but Abes Stands out as the…

Miles Goodyear was born in 1817 on February 24th. He was a mountain man during the last few years of the fur trade. Both of his parents died when he was young. So he was bound out to a farmer in Connecticut until 1834. Then he joined the whiteman spaulding missionary party. He traveled with them to fort hall along the snake river. Then he left to find his fortune in he mountains. He then married a daughter of the Ute chief pe-teet-neet named Pomona. Then is 1845 he decided to make a home along…

Who was John Wilkes Booth and what was he most famous for? John W. Booth was born near Bel Air in Maryland, United States on May 10, 1838 and died April 26, 1865 at a young age of 26. He was born into a family of ten children with being the ninth child. Junius Brutus Booth, John’s father; along with his brother Edwin Booth, were both actors. John strived to be the greatest actor he could possibly be showing precise theoretical potential, but having envy to his brother Edwin for acclaiming actor…

Georgia. Andrews also knew that the train out of Big Shanty serviced a major Confederate distribution site. He believed that if he cut that tie, he could win the war for the Union. “Cut the rail lines in Chattanooga, and it could end the war.” Rich Grant in Following the Great Locomotive…

Firstly justifying this act was the absolute necessity of these brutal actions, as seen by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman himself. With Northern morale wearing thin and the Union’s troops scattered across the nation, one final push into the South to win the war was needed, as without it the North would either lose the war or stop it altogether when the war-averse…

essay, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”, he turns his attention towards both generals who are strong and oddly different. Grant and Lee both represented the strength of two conflicting currents. Although Grant and Lee had defined differences, but a few similarities such as both of them wanted the best for their side. Ulysses S. Grant was the son of a tanner on a western frontier, who had a sharp eye for the future and who also had come up the hard way, without much wealth unlike Lee.…

He, in opposition to Radical Republicans, agreed with Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan and pushed it forward. Johnson’s goal for Reconstruction was to see a speedy restoration of the states, believing that they had never truly left the Union, and thus should again be recognized as loyal citizens to the United States. To Johnson, African-American suffrage was a distraction, and it should be a state’s responsibility to decide who should vote. Johnson, pushing these policies through the government, gave…