Often, movie studios push sequels after the success of their predecessor even when there’s clearly no need for it. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 quickly comes to mind as a production that served absolutely no purpose whatsoever – other than to make a sad attempt by a studio to cash in on said past earnings.…
The cartoon above depicts a snake cut into 8 pieces-each signifying a colony in North America. Under it are the words “JOIN, or DIE”. This political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin, was made to promote the significance of colonial unity. At a time of great change in the colonies, Franklin wanted to bring about cohesion and solidity among the colonies. Just like a snake is powerless without all of its parts, the colonies needed each other to successfully defeat the French and Native American in the French and Indian War and later, Great Britain during the American…
The Battle of Vicksburg started because President Abraham Lincoln recognized the significance of the town.…
After several months began the Battle of Charleston on Wednesday, March 29, 1780 at Charleston, South Carolina. The Battle of Charleston was one of the last battles of the American Revolution and one of the last victories of the British. The British had tried to approach Charleston by water and had failed to reach the city during their first attempt. General Clinton and the British government back in London believed that if the British controlled the South, they would be able to overwhelm General George Washington in Virginia. They began planning the capture of Charleston, South Carolina. In December 1779, General Clinton sailed himself sailed south for Charleston from New York City. The British navy included ninety army ships and fourteen…
The word “Revolution” doesn’t mean complete change. There were numerous events during the civil war like black land rights or hate crimes and many others that contributed to the major changes throughout the country.…
Columbia represents the Government and the thin man choking is the rebels breaking the rules of the Constitution.…
This letter might be the last time you ever hear from me. I’m writing this letter to you to inform you that I entered this war with confidence and a true heart, knowing that I’m fighting for an honorable and true cause.…
Page, Smith. The Rise of Industrial America: A People’s History of the Post Reconstruction Era…
Some historians argue that slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War. As Robert E. Lee said, “In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.” I believe the statement that slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War is true, because slavery was very controversial and became the symbol of disunion.…
Andrist, R. (1967). The American Heritage: History of the making of the nation 1783 – 1860. American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.…
The antislavery movement in the United States started when a growing number of reformers, that were called abolitionists, wanted to end slavery completely. Some abolitionists said that they expected slavery to die out if it was kept out of the western territories. The other abolitionists demanded that they ended slavery everywhere at once. The African Americans that were free tried to end slavery through lawsuits and petitions. In the 1820s however, Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm set up an abolitionist newspaper called Freedom’s Journal. They were hoping to turn the public opinion against slavery by printing things about the brutal treatment of enslaved African Americans. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland. Douglass then…
On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy declared war against the Union because both the South and the North had different outtakes on U.S problems. The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865, but along the way it caused lots of geographic changes. Although it ended four years later, many problems damaged both sides of the United States, especially the South. Southern women faced starvation and poverty when their husbands and sons, who took care of the farms, went away to war. In the South, there were many riots by women demanding for supplies to provide for their families during this time. The Union would often steal crops and livestock from the South, causing the Southerners to have no food to give to their families.…
After the Civil War, the South had went down. It was so much social chaos and turmoil. The Civil War was full of efforts to reconstructing the South, but the question is was there even a New South. Economically there was a New South but when it came to relation and social hierarchy no there wasn’t a New South. During the 1870’s people in the South was still looked at like they were the only ones who wanted slavery. They wanted to develop a new image to the world and to activate economic improvement.…
In the nineteen fifties black communities across the United States were suffering under the heavy burden of poverty. Unemployment, incarceration, drug use and numerous other conditions of poverty were all significantly more prevalent amongst blacks then whites. At the same time blacks across the country were struggling against the oppression of general racial discrimination and Jim Crow segregation in the south. From this turmoil a multitude of black rights movements were created to struggle for equality and better living conditions for blacks. On the forefront of this undertaking was the non-violent Civil Rights Movement led by Baptist Minister Martin Luther King Jr. and the “by…
The Civil War was being fought by a nation divided. Although the Union and Confederacy both believed that there should be a national government, the North was more economically advanced while the South was dependent upon slavery.…