Americans‚ blacks had undeniable rights. Those undeniable rights that Americans believe they should have and no one should take them away‚ is one of the reasons why America was created. The northerners also believed making someone your slave‚ was going against the Christian religion. The south also known as the Confederate States of America‚ supported slavery. The south had a very strong feeling that blacks weren’t people and because they weren’t people‚ they didn’t have rights. They north was doing
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America‚ the land of the free and the home of the brave has met many conflicts throughout our country’s history.By these conflicts‚Americans have learned the best from it and we will try our hardest to improve on it. Our founding fathers fought to give us these rights and all americans should help sustain the “american dream.” A conflict‚ that all american’s commemorate is the Civil War. The Civil War took place during the time 1861-1865 where the United States of America was divided into two nations:
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those historians claim the reasoning for the failure was caused by the lack will to win the war by the Confederates. Gary Gallagher disagrees with these methods historians use. Gary Gallagher believes that the best way to understand why the Confederates lost the Civil War takes a different approach. This is Gary W. Gallagher’s thesis in his The Confederate War is “Why did so many Confederates fight for so long? Until this question receives the detailed attention long accorded the first‚ the history
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examination of the life of Abraham Lincoln. The main character of the book was Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of the United States of America. A few other characters mentioned in the book included secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase‚ the secretary of state‚ William Steward‚ secretary of war‚ Edwin M. Stanton‚ army generals and the commander of the Confederate
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life of many soldiers serving in prison camps at this time. The Civil War‚ 1861 to 1865‚ remains a crucial period in the history of America. It was regarded as ‘war of States’‚ that is‚ the Southern slave states’ and the ‘North States’. It is during this time that civil war prisons were built that held captured soldiers‚ and were operated by the Union and the Confederate government. About 409‚ 000 soldiers were captured in the
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as the Battle of Gettysburg. Had Lee obliged Longstreet in his persistence of a defensive strategy‚ the Confederate Army very well could have won the war. Instead‚ the Union succeeded in holding their ground atop a hillside and thus defeating the Confederate Army and ultimately winning the war. One contemplates the motivations of both the Confederates and the Union soldiers in the United States Civil War. Was it money? Power? Dominance? Michael Shaara‚ author of The Killer Angels suggests alternative
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On the eve of the Civil War‚ the United States was a nation divided into four quite distinct regions: the Northeast‚ with a growing industrial and commercial economy and an increasing density of population; the Northwest‚ now known as the Midwest‚ a rapidly expanding region of free farmers where slavery had been forever prohibited under the Northwest Ordinance; the Upper South‚ with a settled plantation system and (in some areas) declining economic fortunes; and the Southwest‚ a booming frontier-like
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the bloodiest‚ if not the bloodiest day in American history. McPherson even compared Antietam to historic battles such as Normandy‚ where McPherson described Antietam as having four times the amount of Normandy causalities on June 6‚ 1944. A United States Commission Official would describe the battle as “utter devastation and ruin” where “For four miles in length‚ and nearly half a mile in width‚ the ground is strewn with . . . hats‚ caps‚ clothing‚ canteens‚ knapsacks‚ shells and shot.” The
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with the dominating Northern states. This mindset started the Confederacy in the Civil War‚ despite many disadvantages‚ with the confidence in defeating Union forces‚ before becoming overwhelmed and being defeated after four well fought years. The original seceding states of the Confederacy consisted of Texas‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ South Carolina‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ and Alabama. The people of these states saw themselves extremely different than that of the northern states both politically and culturally
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southern having completely different views on states being able to rule themselves. The election of Abraham Lincoln led many southern states to secede from the Union. The South was strongly opposed to Lincoln and his policies. “Lincoln won not a single electoral vote in the South‚ and his Republican Party had vowed to prevent the extension of slavery.” 1 South Carolina was the first states to secede from the Union and gradually more and more southern states followed. Jefferson Davis emerged as the President
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