a clear understanding of the world they lived in. In the early days of the war‚ the Union and Confederacy recognized the importance of both slaves and freed black
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Alvina Lai Honours American History OL V1 Ms. Alison Jones March 31st‚ 2015 Slavery in the United States The United States has had a horrible and shameful history of slavery‚ and although many movements had been made to abolish the worst of it‚ so many deaths and torture had been caused in the time that it took for blacks to get the same rights as whites. Even now‚ we can see the horror that it wrought on the country. Black people are still being killed in their own homes‚ they are still being
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line. Lee’s incomparable infantry could not overcome the crippling handicaps” (History.net Staff). This prove that the loss was not a failure on Longstreet’s behalf but rather on the whole confederacy. The job of a general is to command given higher orders and carry them out. He was a success‚ but the confederacy needed someone to be their scapegoat. Yet Longstreet was also successful in moving on. “Longstreet later
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“Women spies of the Civil War”‚ lists several women who volunteered to potentially risk everything in order to further the Confederacy or Union. One of the spies for the Confederacy‚ Rose Greenhow‚ a charming conversationalist used her status to gather censorious information from a variety of political leaders. Greenhow is most famously attributed with assisting the Confederacy in the First Battle of Bull Run‚ as she exposed the Union’s attack plan. If Greenhow had not passed along this information
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factual‚ in-depth look at the story behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Higham leaves no stone unturned as he thoroughly explains the events that lead up to the death of Lincoln. Overall‚ the book is written in the eyes of the Confederacy and examples like this hymn give the reader reason to believe so. The first section that Higham explains is titled "The Mission." This section gives a general overview of the mission of Confederate groups to try to remove President Lincoln from
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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
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The Anaconda plan‚ proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott‚ was strategically simplistic and of course tactically difficult to implement. It included controlling the Mississippi (which would split the Confederacy) and blockading the South to prevent exports (which would be used to pay for weapons). The main southern strategy was to defeat the attacking Union forces and force the northern states to negotiate. Later in the war‚ a slightly altered strategy
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Abolitionists are people who would protest the law of being able to own slaves. Most Southern people were in slavery‚ which set the two sides into an endless battle. The argument of slavery led to the South leaving the Union to form the Confederacy. The Union and the Confederacy disagreed on many important political topics that led to the civil war. The south countered the work of the abolitionist movement by being violent‚ destroying media‚ and justifying slavery.
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Some had tried to bring more awareness to the issues‚ but were quickly shut down. Due to this‚ many tried to ignore its existence. But in 1860‚ that all changed. The United State was split in half. The Union‚ which consisted of the north‚ and the Confederacy‚ which consisted of the south. A fine line was drawn and battles began. Many reasons were thought to be the cause of the civil war. Few thought it was only about states rights‚ but it was slavery that sparked it all. The Lincoln’s opinions on the
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and troop count. Although some information given by the slaves may have been elaborated‚ the significant assistance slaves provided the Union did not go unnoticed. Abolitionists were using this narrative as a call to arms. They argued that if the Confederacy was using slaves to their advantage‚ the Union should do the same. By freeing slaves‚ the Union would weaken the south by dismantling their treasured institution. Furthermore‚ many public figures urged
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