Irish Civil War

Mississippi was important during America’s Civil War. It played a huge part as an aid of the south, and was genuinely excited for the war in the beginning. The first battle of the war in Mississippi, the battle of Shiloh, cited Mississippi’s resistance against the Union army and their advancements to take over a vital source of transportation in the state, Corinth. With this town, the Union would be able to take over the railroads and the Tennessee River. Unfortunately for the Union and…

reassurance. He may have one of the greatest statues in the world with the Lincoln Memorial however, Abraham Lincoln in my eyes defiantly deserves to be honored at the highest possible level. Also you have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Although not every great person can be appreciated with a statue of themselves, those who do are some of the most influential people in regards to what they did. Abraham Lincoln is mostly known for freeing the…

On March 1857 a case was opened in the U.S. Supreme Court about a man who decided to fight for his freedom. The Dred Scott Decision was named after the courageous man, Dred Scott, who valiantly defied the order of slavery to obtain what every white man had, freedom. Dred decided to fight for his freedom when his master passed away while being at the state of Illinois that was considered a free state for all. Even though the Supreme Court disagreed with him, and got involved in his case to prove…

In The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, the author, James Oakes, articulates Abraham Lincolns and Frederick Douglass’s attitudes in regard to the issue of abolition and the freedom of slaves. Whilst Frederick Douglass was inactive in politics, he was a radical heavily engaged in the abolition of slavery. On the other hand, Andrew Jackson was a diligent Republican politician who had strong notions towards the enslavement of…

From vehement scholarly historians to the general public, the Civil War has struck great debates for many years. So, was the Civil War about slavery? Indeed it was. But to presume the notion that slavery alone was the preeminent cause of the United States Civil War is not a complete fulfillment, nor a clear depiction of history. Moreover, to simply adhere that the institution of slavery lived to be the birth and death of the war is considerably controversial to say the least. Multiple issues…

In the 19th century, territorial expansion played an important role in the United States. The American people adopted an audacious attitude believing that they had a divine obligation to stretch their boundaries from the east coast to the west coast. In 1845 an editor and prominent democratic politician, John L. O’Sullivan, published an article on the annexation of Texas identifying the imperialistic endeavors of the U.S. with the phrase: Manifest Destiny. He stated, “Our manifest destiny is to…

large impact on the nation’s future. While for the Confederacy, it was a disappointment and cause of great frustration because the chance they had had to win the war was lost. The victory that the Union army had achieved provided Lincoln with the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and broaden the main concern of the war from the unity of the nation to include the abolishment of slavery. The Battle of Antietam is not just important because of what it did for the Union army, but…

In Cornerstate Speech, Vice President Alexander H. Stephens states that that the “negro’s aren’t equal to the white people and that slavery is a natural and ethical issue. As he delivered his speech on March 21, 1861 in Savannah, Georgia, Stephens covered all sorts of issues. However, one of the main components of the speech which is remembered today is slavery. The cornerstone speech is considered the confederacy as essentially opposing to the idea of equality in freedom for human beings.…

cries for American racial equality has been during the 1960 's Civil Rights Movement. This was the first grand display and radical time in history where African Americans would gather together and stand up for their constitutional rights as American citizens. The movement would later drift away from nonviolent and peaceful protests, towards a new movement called "Black Power," that would change and challenge the cultural and racial war in America. Some of the leading figures during these two…

South that “the Union [would] constitutionally defend, and maintain itself” (Lincoln). He saw war as an act of self-defense to protect the Union, and was convinced the Constitution would allow him to spill blood for the sake of unity. However, the South disregarded this warning and seceded knowing that they would likely have a war. Indeed at the Battle of Fort Sumter, the South fired the first shots in the civil. The fort had been held by Major Anderson from the Union, which the South saw as…