Mexican–American War

Justification for Publication Rationale for Organization: The documents are grouped according to their perspective- economic, political, or moral cause of the Civil War. The first three Documents (A, B, C) all have economic motives behind them. Document A, Hammond’s speech, presents a pro-slavery perspective arguing that slavery used for cotton production is necessary for a thriving economy. Document B, Helper’s Impending Crisis of the South, follows Document A with an anti-slavery perspective,…

Despite retiring from public life, the Grimké sisters continued to promote religious, educational, economic, and political equality for African Americans and women. However, the nature and intensity of their participation in the antislavery and women’s rights movements had dramatically changed after 1838. Consequently, neither Angelina, who was in ill health, nor Sarah occupied roles of active leadership within the movements. In May of 1838, Angelina married Theodore Weld, a radical abolitionist…

This political party formed and grew from societies that were secret. This party was opposed to immigrants coming over into America. The Know-Nothing Party was a group of Catholic political organization that also called themselves the American Party. The members in this political group were mainly white and it quickly grew as one of America’s second largest political party, in the 1850’s. Strangely, the group that stood against immigrations had a rise in Catholics immigrating from Germany…

role in the war than he had anticipated. President Lincoln took on a new role in 1862 of learning how to really fight a war. He started studying war and strategy. He began to seek guidance from his advisers. “He requested information as to the location of forces, their state of readiness, and the levels of arms and ammunition they held… He would never again adhere to the position that a passive containment strategy would suffice to bring the Confederates to their sense and win the war.”…

(463). In fact, as Churchill further pointed out, slavery was supported by the words of many southern preachers, who taught their congregations that the system was “ordained by the Creator and sanctified by the Gospel of Christ” (463). The Civil War expert Bruce Catton likewise notes that slavery was more than just an economic issue to southerners because the institution was considered to be part of their “social fabric.” In Catton’s words, “when northerners interfered with slavery, they…

Confederate strategy shifted from one of seeking a decisive military victory to one of wearing down the enemy - of making the war so costly for the Union that the northern states would end the war (Carlson). Lee was forced into the war of attrition he feared and eventually cornered in a unwinnable siege around Richmond (Hawks). Without the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War could have come to a much different conclusion, and seemed well on the way to a Confederate victory at one point (Rapp).…

slave owners in Virginia John Brown felt violence was the only way to get his point across. However, were these killings and his onslaught of violence justified? He has been described as both a patriot and a terrorist, but I believe that he is an American domestic terrorist. Although slavery was an atrocious affair, revenge in the form of killing is not justified. His plan to rewrite and enforce his version of the constitution was not only treason, but his disloyalty to citizens around him. …

31st, 1865, by Congress, though it was not ratified until December 6, of the same year. Prior to the Civil War, Congress attempted to stop the war by trying to pass a different draft of the thirteenth amendment, which had a different motive. In the first draft of the thirteenth amendment, it allowed slave states to keep their slaves, instead of formally abolishing slavery. After the Civil War, a new draft of the thirteenth amendment was created. This final draft of the Thirteenth amendment…

The civil war was a time of great suffering, amputation, disease, and imprisonment but it was also an era of great creativity, development, and invention. While the civil war was a bad time for the U.S. it also helped the U.S. develop in important ways. This paper will discuss how the civil war changed America with its many innovations in transportation and communication, weapons and small innovations, and new laws/documents. Although the civil war was an ugly time for America it was also a…

Destiny was the name given to the Anglo-American (white) expansion into the west. The Manifest Destiny believed that white Americans were superior people who believed in God. Americans were to populate North America “sea to shining sea” and spread the religion of Christianity. Manifest destiny highlighted American’s confidences, they moved west for more land, it uplifted the American’s freedom and democracy. The United States uses the Manifest Destiny to start war with Mexico from1846 to 1848.…