Confederate States of America

fought on U.S. soil accrued in, and the nation was split pinning family against family and brother against brother. I chose to set my “Romeo and Juliet” in Virginia, in 1861.The Confederate States started to secede from the union on December 20th of 1860 when South Carolina decided to leave the United States of America, and after this quickly followed Mississippi, Florida,…

more soldiers in it than did the Confederate line. It was essential that the two attacks coincide if there was going to be any chance of a Confederate victory. At the conclusion of the second day of the…

The American Civil War The American Civil War was a crucial point in American history that affected the development of America. The Civil War defined what the nation was going to become in the future. It was a war the pitted brother against brother and father against son. It started on April 12, 1861 and lasted four long years until it finally ended on April 9, 1865. The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history, causing the loss of 625,000 lives. This statistic does not include the…

transcript of “Mayor Landrieu’s Address on Confederate Monuments” written by Derek Cosson, Mayor Landrieu advocates for the removal of Confederate monuments located in New Orleans’. The mayor states, “it is self-evident that these men did not fight for the United States of America, they fought against it. They may have been warriors, but in this cause, they were not patriots” (pg.4, 2017). The essence of Mayor Landrieu’s argument is that these statues of Confederate soldiers are not to remain as…

The Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most significant law ever enacted by the Congress of the United States. It was called the most significant law ever enacted because it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The law had three major features, which were a larger territory of Nebraska was dissected into two smaller territories, Kanas and Nebraska, the dissolution of the Missouri compromise,…

to Grant (Winik 168). Plus, when you take into consideration that the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, had already supported the idea of guerilla warfare, it is obvious that Alexander’s plan was a tempting option from Lee’s point of view. Even with all the benefits guerilla warfare would have had for Lee, he still decided against it, largely due to his sense of duty to the country. Lee was the hero of the Confederates, and had he accepted the idea of guerilla warfare, many others…

between states as it relates to slavery. The Gettysburg War was fought between the Union (the North) and the Confederates (the South). The Union wanted to do away with slavery and let African Americans have choices on where, how, and who they worked for while the confederates were content with slavery. The confederates even tried to argue that slaves had better lives living in America than in their native land Africa. After three long days of battle the Union prevailed defeating the Confederates…

success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States” (“Martin Luther King, Jr” ). His “I have A Dream” address delivered on August 28, 1963 is still vibrant to this day, with a call to end racism and an ushering of a post-racial America from a land segregated between the races. Though, can it be said that the “dream” for a post-racial America was satisfied, and our millennial society is free from hatred? It is a controversial matter,…

two questions in America. What was the status of the Confederate States and how will they become part of the Union? And, what’s the status of former slaves? Beginning in 1865 shortly after the death of President Abe Lincoln, the new President Andrew Johnson took office. Johnson’s idea of reconstruction was a lenient policy. He would allow the southern states to re-enter after they swore loyalty to the Union and ratify the 13th Amendment which gave slaves their freedom. The Confederate…

From April in 1861 to the spring in 1865, a war was fought between the Union and Confederate states of America. It was a bloody battle resulting in a total death estimate of 620,000 men, and is believed to be responsible for the most militaristic deaths in American wars. After 10 bloody battles and the end of the Civil War, the United States was introduced to new military innovations and strategies, African American slaves being freed and entering society as citizens, and the changing of minds…