Flags of the Confederate States of America

history books taught you is a lie. Today when you think of the confederate flag you automatically…

During the civil war, both the Confederate States of America and the United States of America had female spies. The women that worked as spies came from various different backgrounds. Despite the different backgrounds of each women, they all had some things in common. They were committed, they all held a degree of power during the war, and their fates depended similarly regardless of which side they were apart of. In the rest of this research paper we will be looking at some of the women and…

extinguish the fire. War vessels could not go in due to the ebbing tide and the Fort Moultrie was disabled. The fort burnt the whole night and these but calmly Lincoln received these reports regarding the ensuing confrontation. Fort Sumter then flew the flag at half-mast to show that they were in distress (BSL…

In the 1850s, slavery, and other political issues between the states, became a sizable issue. Slavery began to dissect people. For example, the Northerners began to begin support free soil and abolition. However, the Southerners disagreed, and tension increased dramatically. Soon, the Southern slaveowners felt that their rights were no longer being illustrated, and felt that they must succeed (secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, military alliance or especially a…

Abraham Lincoln: Moving Towards a More Perfect Union The United States of America has had forty-four presidents; our nation has put the wellbeing of our country into the hands of forty-four people. A president’s job is to lead our government, be a spokesperson for the people, and make sure America is living up to the ideals we were founded upon. One particular president, Abraham Lincoln, was a phenomenal spokesperson for the ideals America stands for, particularly equality and freedom, and led…

gore were present in Gone with the Wind, it was not excessive, and there was only enough to create an accurate depiction of the war. Margaret Mitchell became very knowledgeable of the Civil War through her grandfather, whom was in the Confederate Army. Kim O’Connell states that “it [the Civil War] showed up in books as it showed up in the lives of those who survived” (2). Margaret Mitchell used the details of her father’s war stories as a direct source for her novel no matter the amount of…

War in the United States, the nation was separated into the North and the South. This took place in the late 1800s, but the separation of cultures and beliefs in these regions began about three centuries before. Explorer John Smith, author of The General History of Virginia, and seeker of religious freedom William Bradford, author of Of Plymouth Plantation, both wrote vastly different essays depicting their experiences while they explored and settled on land that would become America two…

because he was all for the opposite of Lincoln, white supremacy and slavery (O’Reilly, 92). With one deadly shot, Booth showed what the thought of Lincoln and the North, and with that same shot Booth shocked America and the world. When Booth pulled the trigger, he changed the future of America…

social institutions were established in different parts of the world to care for and protect vulnerable people. Modern humanitarianism is generally dated to the mid-nineteenth century, when a remarkable reform movement grew up in Europe and North America, largely out of the Christian evangelical tradition of service. At that time civil society actors were challenging the institution of slavery and undertaking the reform of hospitals, mental institutions, and prisons. Nursing made its appearance…

necessary to properly tend to the dead. Many families of moderate means would flock to battlefields in order to reclaim bodies and escort them home, though this was a privilege few had because of the cost of traveling. In the 1850 embalming came about in America and many people like Thomas Holmes made a fortune with embalming during the Civil War. In 1862 as a direct response to the growing number of dead corpses Congress passed a measure giving presidential power to the president to purchase…