Fort Sumter

Slavery in the Territories The formal withdrawal of a state form the union. The southern secession was important because it intensified the resistance between the north and the south. The right to vote for or against slavery. This was important because it became a compromise between the north and the south. Protest, Resistance, and Violence System of escape routes to hide fugitive slaves in the efforts to help them escape to the north. One of the most important figures involved was Harriet…

According to The News Observer, “The first official slave owner in colonial America was a black man, not white.” While slavery did play a large role in the actions of Southerners in the early 1860’s, slavery was not the only issue. The idea of slavery did not begin when the first captured Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia by entrepreneurial English settlers. People have been enslaving one another since the birth of humanity. Southerners, though, felt that their very way of life…

“Lincoln: A Photobiography” is a book that recounts the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. This biography was awarded the John Newbery Medal and was written by Russell Freedman. Freedman seems to have a very positive attitude towards Lincoln because he writes of Lincoln in a good light. The book was also written in a neutral tone because Freedman never criticizes nor complements Lincoln out rightly. Ultimately, “Lincoln: A Photobiography” provides a…

brutal and bloody war that America has ever experienced in its history. The war started in April 1861 when the confederates, which consisted of seven southern states that seceded from the United States, attacked federal soldiers at Fort Sumter claiming that the fort was theirs (Reid & Keegan, 1999). They forced the federal soldiers to lower the United States flag as a sign of surrendering. Abraham Lincoln rose to power in 1860 and promised to abolish the slave trade. He retaliated by sending…

Specifically, slavery can be seen as the direct cause of the Civil War. David Goldfield, American historian, wrote “Both northerners and southerners recognized slavery as the immediate cause of the civil war.” On April 12, 1861, the Battle of Fort Sumter sparked the Civil War when Confederate General Pierre Beauregard opened fire on the base. After the battle, both North and South supported further military action, this caused the Civil War to ignite. Before the Southern states seceded, the…

for almost five more years and was the cause of death for over 600,000 more men, around 2% of the population. At this point in history, The Battle of Bull Run was the bloodiest battle in American history.(“Bull Run”) Following the attack on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer troops to help fight the war. Many of these new troops gathered in camps surrounding the…

Life of Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln on February 12, 1809 (Zall 7). He was born in Hardin County, Kentucky. He has two siblings: Sarah, born in 1807, and Thomas, born in 1812 and died three days after birth (Brookhiser 15). His father was a respectable and prosperous farmer and a carpenter. He did not own any slaves nor did he drink. He was a good father and he trained, taught, and shaped Abraham into the man he would become. We do not know very much about…

The social makeup of Charleston in the 18th and 19th century according to the U.S Census had a sprawling number of blacks. Charleston has partly become the hub of a trading center in North America because of the sugar plantation and the slave trading. The makeup of the city spanned among the Jews, Christian, Muslim and non-believers: this was due to John Locke encouragement or insisting of a religious tolerance. The City became heavily populated by black slaves from the Western African region…

A Marine battalion comprised of 365 Marines take part in the Battle of Bullrun. On May 15, 1862, the first Navy issued Congressional Medal Of Honor is awarded to Marine Cpl. John F. Mackie for his acts on the attack of Fort Darlings. The Emancipation Proclamation is signed on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. Marines assault New Orleans city halls and the Battle of Gettysburg is soon to follow. The collapse of the Confederates is guaranteed and negotiations…

they seceded when they were sure that the republicans would win because they were sure that the republicans would get slavery outlawed. One month after Lincoln gave his inauguration speech, the Confederate States, or the south, had attacked on Fort Sumter. As a response to the attack, Lincoln called 75,000 volunteers to serve for the Union. Lincoln during the battle was on his own without the help of Congress because they weren’t in session. (The Civil War V.6 5-7) Abraham Lincoln once said in…