Southern states have been defeated 150 years or so‚ yet the Confederate Flag stands tall in Southern states to this day. The Confederate flag holds a history of slavery‚ oppression‚ and racism. The fate of the flag is still being debated to this very day. If anything the flag needs to be displayed in a Museum‚ and not on a Capital Building. Many see bearing the Confederate Flag as a symbol of Free Speech. However The Confederate flag is inherently racist in its symbolism. The Confederate Flag has
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Again‚ this movement started with the murder of Trayvon Martin‚ a seventeen year old teenegaer whose murderer was a neighborhood watch coordinator acquitted for the crime. Now all over America‚ African American men are brutally murdered by police officers-- strengthening the movement of black lives matter. According to Cracked.com‚ “It is statistically proven that black teenagers are twentyone more times likely to get shot by police officers
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the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat. When the Mexican-American war happened‚ Davis decided to resign from congress and become the commander of a Mississippi regiment. He achieved the status of a war hero by his gallant efforts and his strategic military bravery in the siege at Monterrey and at the Battle of Buena Vista. After the war‚ he was elected to the Senate and fought the right of slavery in new territories and the admission of California as a free state. In a political
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The American Civil War‚ also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming)‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that had declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery‚ and‚ after four years of bloody combat (mostly in the South)‚ the Confederacy was defeated‚ slavery
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shaped the United States as we know it today. Nevertheless‚ the war remains one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Here are ten facts you need to know about America’s defining struggle. 1. The Civil War was fought between the Northern states and the Southern states from 1861-1865. The Civil War‚ also known as “The War Between the States‚” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America‚ a collection of eleven southern states that left the
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History Term PaperThe Civil War‚ also known as‚ "The War Between the States" ‚ was necessary‚ made many positive steps for the great nation to unify again and to incorporate slaves as citizens of that nation. The South refused to compromise about slavery and they decided to create their own establishment‚ The Confederate States of America. President Abraham Lincoln ’s goal coming into the war was to unify all the states and to relieve African-Americans (World Book). I agree with both of those statements
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when Confederate troops bombarded the Union Army at Fort Sumter. This was the official starting of the war but before this‚ there were many reasons a war could have broken out. When President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860‚ 7 southern states seceded from the Union. They seceded from the Union because they feared that when Lincoln took office that he would abolish slavery in those states because he was against slavery. They broke away from the Union and called themselves the Confederate states
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infrastructure‚ and the losing the battle of Gettysburg. There are more things but these played a major role in the outcome of the great Civil War. A brief summary of the war before this essay goes into detail about it. This started when in 1861 The United States was turned into a divided country because of the two sides having very different views on certain topics. This war started because the north wanted to re-unite the union. Even though the south technically started the war the north are the ones to
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underlined sites to find the answers to the questions. (Place your cursor before the question mark and type your question. Highlight a word or words and link to the web site where the answer is located.) 1. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? _jefferson davis___________________ http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Jefferson_Davis_Vice_Stephens.htm 2. became the first president of the American Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org/museum/briefarc.html 3. President
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South. It is considered by many to be a turning point within American history because it ended the issues of rights and slavery in the U.S. And while the war was also believed to be inevitable‚ the outcome certainly was not. Many factors such as Confederate strategy‚ lack of morale‚ and the outcome of the of the 1864 election could have tilted the scale to the South’s favor. During the long and hard-fought Civil War‚ Union victory was not inevitable. Strategy and tactics have been known to go hand
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