Confederate States of America

Displaying the Confederate flag is bigoted and sour grapes, in my humble opinion. The Confederacy lost the Civil War, yet a few southern states there were part of this failed rebel government hold onto this part of history by displaying the losing flag on their state banners. The first amendment protects individual citizens right to display the flag of the Confederacy on their car, or in their home, but this emblem should not extend to state buildings. Some historical revisionists have tried to…

Lincoln, in November of 1860. The slave states detested Lincoln because he, as a Republican Party leader, opposed the spread of slavery to the territories of the United States that were undecided. Within a short period of time, the slave states began to secede from the Union; South Carolina was first and six others followed. These states then formed their own government in February of 1861, and became the Confederate states. On April 12th, 1861, the Confederate states ultimately began the Civil…

07/06/2017 Cornerstone Speech Cornerstone speech also known as "Cornerstone Address" is the speech given by Alexander Stephen in Savannah Georgia on March 21, 1861. During the Civil war , he served as the Vice President of Confederate States of America. When was elected to the Confederate Congress, he deliberated the speech that announced about new government where he said that all races are not equal and the whites are always superior then the black people. He believed and insisted that the…

What Caused the Civil War? In 1861, issues between Northern and Southern United States were at a climax because of rights and federal authority, westward expansion, and slavery. Election of Abraham Lincoln, an anti-slavery Republican as president caused seven southern states to secede from the Union, to form the Confederate States of America. The essential economic differentiated between the Northern and Southern regions. In the North, industry and manufacturing were well incorporated. As in…

The Southern states started seceded from the Union in late 1860’s, however, leading this succession was South Carolina that preferred not want to be a part of a country that had no control (Schultz, K., 2013). Other lower southern states soon followed suit, but the southern states that were located in the north decided against seceding since their economy was not as limited as the others. These states were now known as the Confederate of the United States and by February 1861 had elected their…

primary sources stated throughout him. He discusses the current problems that America is facing today on the issues of race in the following two videos: “Charleston Shooting a Chance to Reexamine History”, and “150 years after the Civil War, America is Not Post Racial”. Despite these videos appearing to be on entirely different issues to the American public, Ken Burns brings up the argument in both videos, of Americas’ continual issues with race and misinterpretations of history since the Civil…

for the success of the rich plantation owners. However, the movement against slavery continued to grow and it led to the separation between the two main regions of the country. The West also played a role in the slavery dispute because new western states had to choose whether they would support slavery or abolition in Congress. The division between North and South continued to grow with events like Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott…

with slavery in the states, but worried that his election indicated that Republican administrations in the future might do so. Southerners in the Deep South, fearing they would become a permanent minority in a nation ruled by their political enemies, instead decided to secede from the Union to save slavery, the basis of their society. In the months after Lincoln’s election, seven states stretching from South Carolina to Texas seceded from the United States. These were the states of the Cotton…

Tony Horowitz is an America journalist and writer; he has won the Pulitzer award for his work on “conditions in low-wage America“, which was published in The Wall Street Journal. His genre has a deep connection to the civil war. This book is no different; it is as first person narration of his travels through the south. Horowitz gives his thoughts and opinions of his travels around the south, mostly looking for, remnants of the civil war, historical places, the impact of the confederacy, racism…

In the historical backdrop of the United States, African Americans have constantly been discriminated. When Africans first came to America, they had no choice but to work as laborers. They became slaves to the rich, covetous, lethargic Americans. African-Americans were working as slaves but they could not support their families because they were not paid. Additionally, they were regularly whipped and beaten. They suffered numerous times to get their freedoms, yet when the Civil War came African…