Flags of the Confederate States of America

there is a Confederate memorial that is on the side of it. Confederate monuments evoke southern pride and preserve Confederate memory throughout the South; however, the NAACP states the Confederate monument at Stone Mountain is a glorification of white supremacy. As Tony Horwitz described it, “the largest hunk of exposed granite in the world, the dome shaped mountain poked up from Atlanta’s wooded perimeter like a very, very bald man in a crowd.” At Stone Mountain there is a Confederate…

United States is today. Americas Civil War broke out between the north and south of the United States. The two groups fought between the United States of America and the confederate states of America. The President of the United States during the Civil War outbreak was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln led his country through the harsh event in history. The President was shot twice and nearly died during the civil war. The south was for the confederate states and the north was for the United States.…

and finally the president of the United States. As the country 's 16th president not only did he get the country through the Civil War, but he also established many policies that are still in place today. Lincoln 's life was not an easy one because of the family he was born into, an uneducated rural family but that was not…

Abraham Lincoln inherited the United States when the division caused by secession was one step behind of starting the war. Even though he vowed to uphold the Union and defend the Constitution, he believed that some rules had to be broken. The President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, believed that secession was an act of self-defense in disagreement with the Black Republicans. The goal of this essay is to compare the South who was a supporter of slavery and the North who stood against it…

Wade Hampton III was a man of great stature, born on March 28, 1818 in Charleston, South Carolina to one of the most influential families amongst the Southern States. Hampton grew up on a booming plantation that was kept up by many slaves and servants. He attended school at South Carolina College, now know as the University of South Carolina and graduated from there. He studies law for two years before he had to come home to take care i. In 1838, Hampton married a woman by the name of Margaret…

worked. Despite this, cheap cotton is the reason why these factories were possible. Thus, slavery had an immense effect on the growth of the U.S. economy. Above all, cotton became the dominant driver of economic growth in early nineteenth-century America. In Edward Baptists “This Half Has Never Been Told” he argues that “The total gain in pro­ductivity…

formed the Confederate army, while the North formed The Union army. The Confederates were continuously threatening Fort Sumter in South Carolina, which was a Union fort, until April 12, 1861 when the Confederates fired the first shots of the war. They blasted the fort with artillery for less than two days until Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. After the victory four more states joined the Confederacy, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina,Tennessee, and Texas. The Confederates were led…

particular race” (Racism). The United States is no stranger to racism as it had suffered from it for well over four hundred years. The stimulant that started the chaos of racism was slavery in which there were injustice and segregation of the blacks in the community even after the Civil Rights Movement. Racism is still occurring in the United States to this day despite all the disarray that was meant to fix it. The first occurrence of slavery in North America transpired in 1619, when…

weaknesses on the North and the South side. The North most definitely outweighed the South in almost every way possible. The confederacy had nearly 22 million people that lived in the 23 Northern states. The south had only about 9 million people , this was including the around 3.4 million slaves , in only 11 states. Starting there, the confederacy had already one up on the union. Despite the amount of people on each side, there was many different strengths and weaknesses. The South 's greatest…

The South only had 11 states (Ushistory.org). Thus making the population small with 9 million people and 3.5 million were slaves. There was around 750,000 to 1.2 million enlisted in the war (Library of Congress). The North set up a blockade in the sea so the cotton farmers and…