Spanish Civil War

The Civil War was not only a war to abolish slavery, but it was also the war to unite the nation back to what it was before. The Civil War was known as the bloodiest war in American history not because of the number of casualties, but because of the amount of American blood that was spilled. The war had the most amount of American blood spilled than any other war that the United States fought in total. The reason for this is because it was Americans pitted against Americans over slavery. The…

that African Americans have lived in the West since the beginning of Spanish settlement and were among the founders of Los Angeles. However, the impact that African Americans have had in the West is not well known. Quintard Taylor states that slavery played a significant role in the European and American domination of the American West, as in the South and Mexico. Black freedmen, as well as slaves, had accompanied Spanish conquistadors during their first centuries of…

The Indian Wars were the multiple conflicts between American settlers or the United States government and the native peoples of North America from the time of earliest colonial settlement until 1924. Warfare between Europeans and Indians was common in the seventeenth century. In 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy nearly wiped out the struggling Jamestown colony. Frustrated at the continuing conflicts, Nathaniel Bacon and a group of vigilantes destroyed the Pamunkey Indians before leading an…

Clyde, Ohio is a town located in Sandusky County about 40 miles southeast of Toledo. The city has a population of approximately 6,000 people. The community was founded by a young lieutenant who fought in many Indian wars. The town was not originally named Clyde. Before they were renamed Clyde, the city was called Centreville. The city was renamed after Clyde, New York, which was the hometown of an early resident. Clyde has a few prominent citizens that left their mark in their life and in their…

the undecided border in the South. Spanish Florida in particular had no established border. Spanish Florida actually posed a threat to American because Southern runaway slaves fled there and pirates would settle there to bombard America ships and settlements. Andrew Jackson an American general at that time believed that, if claimed, Florida could be a beneficial to America. With Jackson 's notion in…

and led an assault from the north. It lasted from day break to early evening. When the French finally retreated they had lost nearly 500 soldiers. Fewer than 100 Mexicans had been killed in the clash. Although not a major strategic win in the overall war against the French, Zaragoza’s success at Puebla represented a great symbolic victory for the Mexican government and strengthened the resistance movement. Six years later military support and political pressure from the United States…

outbreak of the Civil War, she independently organized relief for the wounded often bringing her own supplies to front lines. As the war ended she helped locate thousands of missing soldiers, including identifying the dead at Andersonville prison in Georgia. Clara Barton lobbied for U.S. recognition of the International Committee of the Red Cross and became president of the American branch when it was founded in 1881 Clara Barton continued her humanitarian work throughout several foreign wars…

within their countries. While the Ostend Manifesto had unanimously proclaimed that the U.S would take Cuba by force if the Spanish refused to sell, Sarmiento’s letter expresses support to replicate on some aspects of U.S society. These documents reveal the growing fears of U.S domination in Latin America as the U.S realist foreign policy of expansionism has led to the U.S-Mexican war in the mid-1840s and the support of multilateral policy to address these events. In addition,…

over the years; in 1625 they only had 23 slaves, in 1649 they only had 300, and in 1690 they had 950 slaves in Virginia. New England was next to have slaves and the were only slaves if they had one of the three requirements; they had to be captives of war, they sold themselves into slavery/ or the government sentenced them to slavery. In New England they were called “Strangers”. New…

Colonial America in the 18th century, black slaves were forced to labor. They worked in plantations to produce tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and so on in the South. In North, they worked as the skilled and unskilled labor force in industry and factories. They were brutally treated; as a result. They wanted to get freedom by runaway. The owners of slaves placed well-informed advertisements for their return. The advertisements include information about each slave such as the date of issue, the date…