Nancy Lincoln

Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources Vannerson, Julian. Portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army. 1864. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.04402/?co=cwp. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. The portrait is a primary source photo of Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. Photographers took portraits of important generals during the Civil War. The portrait shows Lee sitting in his military uniform wearing three five…

Voting Crisis 1 ~ Black Codes, Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act, 14th Amendment During this period of American History, carpetbaggers were known for being extreme political opportunists, and during the Reconstruction Era they were avid supporters of the abolition movement. Thus, going into the first crisis, we had an outline in mind for where our votes would be cast. Our goal was to support leaders who were in favor of the Freedmen’s Bureau, along with the other abolitionist legislation, and…

Politically, the Unionist leadership were out matched by the wave of secessionist leadership coming into power during the mid-to-late 1950s in Texas. The next three articles describe typical traits of the Unionist leadership and how those traits motivated them both politically and socially in the eventual support for or against secession. Kenneth Wayne Howell’s article, “When the Rabble Hiss, Well May Patriots Tremble: James Webb Throckmorton and the Secession Movement in Texas, 1854-1861,”…

To some degree a precedent had been set in American politics. This was the fact the president’s secretary of state became president next. John Quincy Adams, Monroe’s secretary of state, intended to keep the train rolling. Benefitting from being the former president’s son, Adams also had some unpleasant associations with it. In 1808 Adams, in order to remain politically viable, left his federalists and became a republican. To some extent Adams was overqualified to be president having served as…

On August 22, 1831, Nat Turner and his group of slaves attacked their slave master, and their families at the strike of midnight. Known as Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Nat Turner and his men had murdered many. Many people called the revolt the “First War”, as it was the most violent slave revolt in the history of America. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. From his birth, Nat Turner’s mother had inculcated him that he was intended…

As a heavily-laden ship made its way up the channel of the Delaware River around 1770, it foundered and broke apart on a mud shoal, dumping its cargo of peas into the water. When the peas sprouted, an island eventually emerged. Ergo, the legend of how Pea Patch Island came into existence between Delaware City, Del., and Salem County, N.J. Habitation on the island remained relegated to migratory birds until the early 19th century. As it grew in size, government officials recognized the potential…

Michigan in the Civil War- The Civil War started when the confederate army attacked Fort Sumter in April 1861 causing the fort to surrender to the confederates. Michigan began to rally the troops a week after the fall of fort Sumter, one meeting spot was Ann Arbor. The first Michigan was created and it generated more excitement than any other regiment. The regiment was trained in Fort Wayne and they went to war on May 11, 1861. As the Michigan regiments marched toward the battlefront they were…

This war was an internal conflict fought in the U. S. which was a battle between the Union (North) and the Confederate States (South). When President Abraham Lincoln was elected, the South decided to secede from the Union and create the Confederate States of America. After four years of battle, the Confederate States decided to surrender. Even though the Civil War was the beginning of the end of slavery, America…

The Civil War, a war within the United States caused by the sectional crisis, affected each state in a variety of ways. Unlike other areas, Arkansas’ experience in the Civil War differed from those of surrounding states. This was due to Arkansas being a border state, the main battles being fought east of Arkansas, and a collapse in Arkansas government. During the war, the states had split into two distinct political factions, known as the North and the South, over the issue of the future of…

Andrew Jackson was the first president that did not come from a colonial family. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants who were poor. They came to the Carolina’s within the second half of the eighteenth century. Just before he was born, his father was killed. Jackson soon became an attorney, when he had learned more about the law. He knew a lot about farming and the land to grow wealthy, when he was fighting with the Indians. Jackson would have not been much different than John Quincy Adams.…