Irish Civil War

beginning of the 19th century, the United States’ North and South regions developed many differences that would later lead to division, however, it is the regions’ similarities that would cause the downfall of America’s people during the American Civil War. The difference in work force in the North and South affected how daily life was viewed by the average person; the start of shifting economies begins two different paths of economic dependency in the regions. Similarities in the regions during…

against the Irish working people; these acts were established throughout the 17th century. The way in which the British government drove their proposed acts on Ireland made it harsher for the Irish people to live. These acts ensured that trade in Ireland would be able to be achieved, but only through the crowns supervision and profit. During the reign of Charles II, a chain of Navigation Acts prohibited Ireland from exporting goods to…

Slavery is arguably one of the biggest and most recognized disagreements that would eventually lead to the civil war. The disagreement in where the future of slavery would lead ultimately resulted in the separation of the southern states, causing the northern states to fight in order to preserve the union. The abolitionist movement in the 18th century originated in the North, which is where the initial disagreement began. Once the Missouri compromise was put into place which banned slavery in…

”The Sniper” was published during the Irish civil war (January 1923) by the republican Liam O’Flaherty. It takes place as night falls in Dublin. Shots eccho. A young Republican sniper lies on a rooftop. He lights a cigarette; risks revealing himself. Instantantly, a bullet hits the parapet, behind which he hides. A car approaches and halts down the street. A woman appears from a side-street. She speaks with the driver and points to the sniper. Without thinking, he shoots the driver, and the…

Commonly today, people see Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as what influenced the South into breaking away from the Union before the start of the Civil War. It is known that the sensitive topic of slavery is what began the strong sense of sectionalism in the United States. For so long the Founding Fathers and men after them did their best to avoid that very topic. States entered the Union two by two as to not upset the balance that had been so carefully placed. At first the topic of…

Know-Nothing party emerged during the mid-1850s and derived its name from the reluctance of its members to acknowledge its existence. Its rise was precipitated by the explosion of Irish and German immigration from the period of 1840-1860. During this time span, over 4 million Irish and German settled in the United States; the Irish made their homes mostly in the Northeast while the Germans went to Midwest. Members of the Know-nothing party were nativists who disliked the incoming immigrants as…

States because of the Civil War, but also the ways in which President Abraham Lincoln was instrumental in the carrying out of these changes. When Lincoln gave his inaugural address, he spoke only of the Union, but by the time he gave his infamous Gettysburg address, he spoke only of a united nation (McPherson, viii). A nation he united through “revolution”—a complete “overthrow of the existing social and political order by internal violence” (McPherson, 16). The Civil War was revolutionary…

“immigrants are going to take our jobs” – even though we are a country founded and built by the toil and sweat of such men and women. We have discriminated against many different people over the course of our great and noble history, including Africans, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, and Germans. An article entitled “Xenophobia: American Nativism” deals with this very issue. It tackles the issues of xenophobia…

Prior to the division of America due to sectionalism, the conclusion of the war of 1812 provided a renewed sense of nationalism for the nation since it resulted in self-sufficient manufacturing. A period of economic expansion ensued, and included advancements in technology and manufacturing as well as the development of the market economy. Although the country was making major progress, other events during the early to mid 1800s revealed sectional differences and forced the north and south…

that led to the Civil War. As the South was so dependent on the plantation economy to survive, slavery was interwoven in the culture. By the time the war began, there were more than 4 million slaves in the South (Olsen 49). Slaves were needed for a cheap source of labor to support the plantation economy of the South. In contrast the North was heavily dependent on their large influx of immigrants, which was not available in the south, for its labor pool. The mostly German and Irish immigrants…