Mexican–American War

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…

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,…

The Ultimate Battle 1860 -1877 were years that encompassed major events beginning as early as the Civil War leading up until the end of Reconstruction. After numerous efforts to improve the country and the status of African Americans after the Civil War, extreme developments were made. Although there were many factors that assisted the reform movement, the key developments were mainly constitutional and social. Events occurring throughout the North and South contributing to the revolution…

The book gives a major perspicacious judgment of the role of African American women during and after slavery was eradicated. The overall theme of the book Ar’n’t I A Woman, in my perspective was that, as Deborah White wrote, African…

Before writing and signing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s presidency was consumed with war and defeat and while the Emancipation Proclamation went against Lincoln’s original pledge “I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists”(The Lincoln-Douglas Debates); Lincoln believed it was the only way to save the union and to reestablish order in this great nation. The Emancipation Proclamation will go down in history as…

The Civil War: Slavery The Civil War started in Sumter, South Carolina in 1861 and it ended in 1865. This is one the most remembered wars in history along with the famous world wars. Not only did Confederacy and ratification play a huge part in the war but the main thing is slavery. Not many people took the time to elaborate on how exactly the slaves felt during this time. How the were treated. How they were mistreated and how they coped until they were able to be set free. Slavery is a huge…

Ever-changing Role of Women in History Had Martin Luther not dared to question the Catholic Church when he nailed The Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517, had King Henry VIII not been so set on a divorce in 1533, had the Pamphlet Wars during the turn of the 17th century not taken place, the life of women in the New World in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries may have been very different. These central characters, and so many others, set the stage for a revolution.…

In the 1800’s slave narrators began to arise to reveal the life that an African American slave endured. Two influential writers Fredrick Douglas and Booker T. Washington completed narrators explaining the truth behind slavery in the United States. Narrative of the life of Frederick’s Douglas pertains to Douglas struggle for abolishment of slavery. While, Washington’s Up from Slavery arose in the post-civil war era, depicting the success of a former slave through adapting white values and…

both sides get a part of they want so they can be content. Compromises are a great way to resolve conflict although they do not work all the time. Before to the American Civil War occurred, many compromises were made to prevent the Civil War. However, the differences were far to great and compromises were not able to help prevent the civil war. One of the greatest reasons for this was slavery. Slavery affected national politics greatly in the 1820’s, that the Missouri Compromise was to be made…