Irish Civil War

cotton gin was the most important invention during the 1800’s because it made the Southern states dependent on it slave labor, it boosted the American economy tremendously, and it forced Great Britain and France to side with the Confederacy during the Civil…

Unity was not emboldening the Union Army leadership. In Washington, many important figures were continuing to plot McClellan’s downfall. The Secretary of War was brazenly seeking statements from anyone that help build his case that the general was at fault for the defeat by not completing his assault on Richmond. As well, the secretary was criticizing his withdrawal as “being made dilatory fashion.” The withdrawal had nothing to do with the general; in fact he protested his orders from…

attack. Complication with Texas led to the Mexican War and shortly after the Wilmot Proviso began. The big decision to include Missouri on the new states list depended on if it would be free or full of slavery. Many people believed in the Manifest Destiny and those same people had to deal with the coming election. Overall use of expansion is to ensure a country has the manpower and resources for future perseveration of its nation. After the war of 1812 many of America’s attention turned to…

good. However, by no means is democracy synonymous with freedom, for the latter cannot be defined so clearly. A man’s definition of freedom following the Civil War (1865-1915), for instance, was as personal to him as his name and in some cases, his life. Whether abstract or concrete, social or political, the notion of freedom emerged from the Civil War as a motto of hope and change. But to the chagrin of many—whites and blacks, Americans and immigrants—it would remain a figment of their…

Stereotypes of African American Men in the Media Negative stereotypes of African American men have existed for centuries. They date as far back as folklore, pre mass media, and they exist everywhere today. “They have played a significant role in shaping attitudes towards African American men in American history and in the present (Green, 1999).” “They created the idea that they are racially and socially inferior (Blackface).” Furthermore, they promoted inequality and violence towards them.…

The Start of Civil War Civil war was one of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S. history, it started because of different political and economic beliefs that caused conflicts between the northern and the southern states. There were major political and economic issues, social and cultural forces, individuals and groups that caused civil war. There are different opinions on what caused civil war, for some it was just because of slavery, but there were many factors that separated the nation and it was…

Out of the ashes of fire, new life may yet emerge. Fire, so closely associated with destruction, is a large part of E.L Doctorow’s novel, The March, in which the bloody civil war of America threatens to result in the complete decimation of civilization on both sides. Fire was the main tool used to reduce the landscape of a region to nothingness. But fire does not only symbolize the destruction of a physical landscape to nothingness, it also extinguishes with it the very identity and cultures of…

Christopher J. Olsen’s book Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 details the political culture in one of the Deep Southern states during the strenuous lead-up to the Civil War: Mississippi. Olsen does this in a number of ways, but his most notable examples are using stories from Southern individuals and statistics on election days. It is because of this that the author makes this point very clear to his audience: the political…

Insurgency, 1930-1970 chronicles the development and growth of the black protest movement through that changing political and social conditions that both created and denied political opportunities for black protest and contributed to the growth of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s onward. McAdam first traces the origins of the political and social conditions that denied blacks the political opportunities to organize and protest to “King Cotton” and Compromise of 1876 that ended Radical…

Which American president was the most innocent? Abraham Lincoln, he was in a cent (innocent). The Civil War was the bloodiest sectional conflict which opposed the Union against the Confederate states, resulting in casualties of more than 600,000 Northern and Southern soldiers. Since the beginning, the North and South had been divided and several acts were passed to preserve the delicate balance. These resolutions included the Northwest Ordinance, high protective tariffs, and most importantly,…