Booth had a gang full of southerners who were devastated by the outcome of the Civil War. Booth didn't take the loss of the Confederacy well. He rounded up three of his men, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and David Herold. He said to his men that he would be the one to end the…
He had tried to get others to go against the government which would be considered as urging them to break the law. He wanted them to help him keep the Union as the way it was when it started. They would have done this by making peace and splitting into four sections instead of two.…
Once Lincoln found a general capable of carrying out his determined strategy, Lincoln and Grant had to ensure that the military objectives taking place in the war corresponded with the correct political objectives of the war. Surprisingly, Lincoln had held a meeting with Sherman and Grant just a few weeks before the closing of the war to outline their final strategies, including post-war plans.…
In his letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1791, Benjamin Banneker uses emotional, logical, and ethical appeal with multiple literary devices to argue against on the issues of slavery.…
Second, the South thought they could force the North to recognize their independence by winning a major war. The original plan by President Davis was to copy the military strategy used by George Washington in the American War for Independence. The plan was to only fight in battles that they felt the South could win, the rest of the time they would stay away and not fight. This plan was designed to make the North stop supporting the war against the Confederacy. This plan also did not work, mainly because by doing this plan, there would have to be much retreating and rendering of the…
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However, the Union suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Bull Run, causing Lincoln to feel a sense of “humility” and “embarrassment” towards European nations (Peraino, 2013). Secretary of State, Henry Seward, knew that something needed to be done to enforce international trade, resulting in the establishment of the Anaconda Plan. Lincoln justified this action by saying it was a ‘”life and limb’” that must be protected. Furthermore, Lincoln signed a bill that “actively pushed for innovations in the navy… develop a fleet on ironclads” (Peraino, 2013). The blockade left three quarters of the British and French workers unemployed and textile mills were in crisis (Jones, 2010). Correspondingly, the infamous Trent Crisis sparked outrage in Britain by claiming violation of international law and demanding the release of the commissioners and ordered troops to Canada to prepare for a potential Anglo-American conflict. In order to avoid conflict, Lincoln told Seward to send an apology to the British officials for the incident and the diplomats were release, bringing the Trent Affair to a close (Burlingame, 2017). However, this sparked interest to the French leader, Napoleon, towards Mexico. Lincoln, realizing the danger, placed his forces at the Rio Grande as a warning to Napoleon. Luckily, he got a break, when Russian ships came to the coast of the Atlantic. This was…
While both Jefferson and Hamilton were brilliant minds and were major contributors to establishing our nation, and its flourishing, they both had very different views on key structural aspects of the country.…
The Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, suggested creating an undeclared blockade. This would ensure that other nations could not grant the South “belligerent status.” Instead of following this course of action,…
Two diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell were to be sent to Britain and France by the confederate president, Jefferson Davis. Davis along with the Confederacy hoped to press the Confederacy’s agenda for diplomatic recognition and lobby for military and financial support, all in the name of cotton diplomacy. James Mason from Virginia and was to be a minister to Britain and John Slidell from Louisiana and was to be a minister to France. Sending Mason and Slidell on behalf of the Confederacy was no secret to the Union which kept a watchful eye on the situation. However, it they weren't too very watchful because when the Union heard that the two confederate diplomats had left Charleston, they ended up chasing down the wrong ship. Mason and Slidell were believed to have been on the ship The Nashville but when it docked on November 21, 1861, they were a bit shocked to find that Mason and Slidell were not on board.…
5. Secretary of State William Seward became angry with Lincoln because Lincoln made the decision to allow Confederate representatives come to the Union to discuss a peace treaty, but he did not tell Seward. I agree with Seward’s complaint because he deserves Lincoln’s trust with anything and needs to know all the details in order to help Lincoln with the amendment and the end to the war.…
Thomas Jefferson was one of the framers of our nation; he was really good at doing it too. First, in his time Thomas Jefferson was a very good candidate for being in a leadership role, and that is exactly what he did during the Revolutionary War. He served as the Governor of Virginia and was the Vice President under John Adams. Secondly, Thomas Jefferson really had a lasting image of our government today. He was a part of Washington's side of the Anti-Federalists, and which today seems like the 2 main political parties: Democrat and Republican. Lastly, He also had to do with the Declaration of Independence because he wrote it! Some of these rights that we have today are because of the Declaration that Thomas Jefferson wrote. In conclusion,…
On February 7, 1871, seven slave states declared independence, joined the confederate states of America and elected Jefferson Davis as president.In davis’ message to Confederate Congress (Doc H), he expressed his view that the constitution set up a compact between independent states, rather than a national government made up of states. The misconception that the Constitution set up a national government, he said, was the perception of a certain political school in the North. In contrast, Lincolns message (Doc I) questions how the southern states could withdraw from the Union without the consent of the other states. As these two documents have pointed out, the different interpretations by which the Northerners and Southerners interpreted the Constitution was one of the main sources of sectional discord and tension. Despite efforts at preserving the Union, social and economic forces were pulling the North and South apart. Northern society was beign cultured by the industrial revolution, and by educational and humanitarian movements that had little effect in the South. Southern society was dominated by agriculture, and therefore slavery was a necessary institution and way of life. Since the North and South were essentially two different societies united under…
Stephen Douglas made a remark about compromise in his speech in Alton, Illinois,”… Our fathers knew, when they made the government, that the laws and institutions which were well adapted to the green mountains of Vermont, were unsuited to the rice plantations of South Carolina.” In order for those laws of Vermont to be suite to South Carolina, Vermont has to give up something and South Carolina has to give something back, like obeying those laws for instant. The government was built upon compromise. Before the Civil War and in Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, Lincoln repeatedly said, “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so…” Lincoln was being persuasive in getting the South states to stay in the Union. He knew that slavery will be abolished soon but it was not the time yet. Lincoln went about winning the Congressmen seat by figuratively trapping Douglas; he cornered him with questions during the Lincoln-Douglas Debates on slavery. Lincoln thought it was wrong but wanted to leave it alone, but Douglas had been tied to the Kansas-Nebraska Act which almost allowed slavery in an anti-slavery North but didn’t thanks to popular sovereignty, which is a decision that is decided by its people. Lincoln claimed he was going against the North by letting slaves in the Northern Territories, Lincoln (Republican) went on to lose the Congress seat to Douglas but later beat him for the Presidency of 1860. Again, in an attempt to save the Union, this time by Lincoln, failed because the South knew Lincoln would abolish slavery one way or another. They knew he would do so because of his speech given at the Republican state convention in Springfield, Illinois. He said, “…I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free…It will become all one thing, or all…
the policies of the Republicans in the years of their presidency (18011817) reflected the same…