in an effort to save the Union while the Confederacy fought to protect states’ rights. African Americans The Union was against slavery‚ especially President Abraham Lincoln‚ and wanted the Confederacy to free all slaves. In Doc A‚ it is clear that Lincoln felt that that African Americans deserved their help‚ for they had been enslaved by whites for too long. Many people disagreed with this viewpoint; Lincoln’s views on slavery infuriated the Confederacy because they knew it would not be long before
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the 16th President of the United States without any support from southern Americans. As a result of his victory Southern states like Mississippi‚ South Carolina‚ Louisiana and many others succeeded from the Union leading to the creation of the Confederacy. Tensions were high and on April 12th‚ 1861 an attack erupted on Fort Sumter in the South Carolina Bay. The attack began the spark which ignited the Civil War. The
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was to learn the ’American’ way of living. The teachers at the boarding school were very cruel to the students and punished them for speaking their Navajo language or using it in any way. The punishments consisted of public humiliation for example dunce hats and washing the students’ mouth’s out with soap. The Navajo language is something that has already been imbedded into the student’s heads‚ and for them to learn the ’American’ way was challenging and something they had to get used to. The student’s
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who had been Lincoln’s choice for commanding the union army. When Virginia seceded‚ Lee resigned from the United States army and joined the confederacy‚ Lee soon found himself commanding the confederate army. The Union (the north) had three great advantages during the civil war. They had a population of roughly about 22 million people‚ whereas the confederacy only has roughly about 7 million. The north also had its factories up there‚ the demands of the north hastened the new phase of the industrial
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The UDC was one such group that historian David Blight believes was fighting for control of historical interpretation during what he calls the second era of the Lost Cause. If there is any one point by the United Daughters of the Confederacy that displayed their support of the Lost Cause‚ Caroline Janney provides the example with the women’s intent to commemorate the faithful slaves “when they pressed for the erection of a national faithful slave monument.” Janney is showing how the South tried
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after Lincoln became president. After they left and other southern states began to follow‚ they declared themselves as the confederacy. South Carolina tore apart what was once a unified nation into two separate ones. 4. The secession of South Carolina eventually to other southern states to follow and they elected Jefferson Davis to be their leader of the new southern confederacy. When Lincoln was inaugurated‚ he made a plea to restore the bonds of the Union‚ however the south
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Pickett’s Charge and the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg happened on July 3‚ 1863. General Lee‚ who was part of the confederacy‚ can up with a plan that he thought would work. This plan included attacked the center of all the Union forces because he thought that they were weak and ready to break. Longstreet did not agree with this entirely‚ but he did what he was told. The troops set up a line of cannons that would attack Cemetery Ridge before they battled against the center. For over an hour
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Americans & Frontiers Men‚ known as the Western Confederacy‚ and the Native Americans following a loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It put an end to the Northwest Indian War. The U.S‚ led by General Wayne‚ won the Battle of Fallen Timbers. In exchange for goods worth $20‚000‚ the Native Americans gave large parts of modern day Ohio‚ the future downtown Chicago‚ the Fort Detroit area‚ Maumee Ohio area‚ and the lower Sandusky area. The Indian Confederacy of Tecumseh was a group of Native Americans
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Tecumseh ‚Shawnee war chief‚ was born at Old Piqua‚ on the Mad River in western Ohio. In 1774‚ his father‚ Puckeshinwa‚ was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant‚ and in 1779 his mother‚ Methoataske‚ accompanied those Shawnees who migrated to Missouri‚ later died. Raised by an older sister‚ Tecumpease‚ Tecumseh would play war games with other fellow youths in his tribe. Tecumseh accompanied an older brother‚ Chiksika‚ on a series of raids against frontier settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee in
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Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is widely believed to be the fabled liberator of slaves. However‚ Lincoln showed time and time again that he only cared about the fate of blacks as it served him and the interests of his administration. The major objective of President Lincoln’s administration was to preserve and sustain the Union. The southern states’ insurgence started as a result of disputes over states rights and representation in Congress; it was coincidence that most of the disputes in congress
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