Musket

important chain of events. In the book, Johnny made a trade with Pumpkin- a farmer’s disguise for Pumpkin’s uniform and musket. Without Johnny and Pumpkin’s exchange, Rab never would have gotten a musket, and Johnny would have never been able to leave Boston and look for Rab. Stevenson, once again, tries to substitute Pumpkin’s removal with other scenarios. Instead of receiving the musket from Johnny, Rab acquires the gun on his own, while Johnny escapes Boston by jumping over a fence…

without them many problems would have arisen. Crime would be everywhere on the streets and slavery would still exist. The Civil War shaped our country for the better, and made us the great nation that we are. Before the war, soldiers had used muskets to fight. However, the development of the rifle and the high spread of disease caused over 600,000 American casualties. That's more American deaths than WWI, WWII, Vietnam War, Korean War, and the Revolutionary War combined. Diseases like…

magine a place where there was not any machines and you had to do things by hand. Well that was reality until the Industrial Revolution rolled around. The Industrial Revolution is an important part of history because people switched to machines, new inventions spread, and it changed common concepts. Although, many countries have not had their revolution it all started in Europe. What is the Industrial Revolution? The Industrial revolution is a time period where people started using machines to…

I’ve chosen to analyze a film for my research project by director Hugh Hudson called Revolution. Revolution was released on December 25, 1985, through Warner Bros. Entertainment and was produced by Irwin Winkler and written by Robert Dillon. The main starring casts are Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski (IMDb. “Pacino Revolution,”2016). Al Pacino is one of the many actors I admire in the industry because of all the glorious movies he’s been in, such as Righteous Kill, The…

The Civil War was one of the most significant wars that America fought in. “War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” (Nathan Forrest) This is what the new technologies of the Civil War meant for the two American armies. Wartime is a time for expansion of military technology. During World War I we invented the first tanks, during World War II we invented the atomic bomb and just like those wars; during the Civil War, they had their own line of technological breakthroughs. The weapons used…

Before the events of the Civil War, the North and South experienced great divides. In hindsight, it is not difficult to understand why. The North’s economy was industrialized and had “an integrated economy with farming and agriculture” (2). In contrast, the South developed a “predominantly agrarian economy” and became a farming region (1). With modern cities in the North and plantations in the South, the two regions held striking cultural differences, which translated into economic and political…

States United to Prevent Gun Violence, shows a man attempting to commit a mass shooting with a musket, he misses shooting at point blank range. It states, “ guns have changed shouldn’t our gun laws” (States United to Prevent Gun Violence, 2013). This video shows the straw man fallacy through the use of a weak argument of the National Rifle Association to not change gun laws. However, just like the musket the second amendment is out of date, and guns have advanced. Lockdown states, “Our children…

(2) The sights of a musket are very inaccurate. Some musketeers have their weapons made by different gunsmiths but there was not one universal sight. All the sighs were different and most of the sights were off. (3) The butts of the guns were all different. The butt of a common man’s gun could be faulty due to the cheap parts used to make the gun. The cheap parts will cause the musket be to be less accurate. Linear warfare made the American soldiers looks less of a coward. If the American hid…

How technology changed the American civil war The American civil war was a great event in American history. While the revolutionary war created the United States, the civil war determined what kind of nation it would be. The American civil war was caused by the issue of slavery. Beginning from the civil war, war was just fought in a whole new level. Not only in attacking stage but also in defensive stages. In the 1860s no tanks, radios, and airplanes excited but the American civil war is…

the start of the Civil War, weapon technology had advanced greatly. Technological advancements like Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts in 1797 helped in efficiently and quickly producing 10,000 muskets for the U.S. army using standardized parts and making them interchangeable. Before his invention muskets had been made by a single person without any standardized measurements making the manufacturing slow and time consuming. This was just one invention that would help in creating a platform for…