The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
.... The fort itself was militarily unimportant to either side, yet it later became a significant symbol to both the North and the South. In the controversy that surrounded Fort Sumter, both Presidents attempted to act in the best interest of their nations. While Abraham Lincoln's decision superficially seems to be the wiser as the North won the war, Jefferson Davis's decisions truly proved to be more self serving to his nation's cause.
As the number of Southern States that seceded increased, the federal forts captured or on the verge of being taken over by the Southern Confederacy also increased. At the time that Lincoln entere .....
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The Civil War
.... to blockade the river. To mexico this was an invasion of their territory. Mexican troops therefor crossed the rio grande and in a small battle wounded sixteen American soldiers. This was the Beginning Spark of war.
The Mexican people were more united about the war then the americans were. Mexicans felt that they were defending thier territory against invaders. In the United States the war was popular in both the south and the west. Where expansion settlement was especially strong. But then on the other hand, in the Northeast, it was not popular at all. Religiouse groups such as the unitarians and the congrega .....
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Military Clash Between The United States And Iraqi Jets
.... perhaps capture a U.S. pilot in an elaborate blackmailing plot.
This military clash was just one of the three military clashes which has happened in the past two or so weeks. Despite the close encounter, President Hussein stated that he would continue to send warplanes over the no-flight-zones. These blatant disregards for the no-flight-zone restrictions seem to be part of Saddam Hussein’s plan to force the UN to withdraw weapons inspectors from Iraq.
This problem is extremely important to the future of not just the United States, but to the world. Should these occasional clashes escalate to a full-fledged war, the threat of .....
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
.... his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to the peoples attention in an attempt to fix it was the “law” that all the African Americans could sit only at the back of the bus and not the front, something that was abolished after Rosa Louise Parks made a choice to sit in the front of the bus because of her sore feet.
As a noble man, with a good education and a firm belief in the constitution, King was quick to see that the rights which were promised to all Americans was not being used fairly especially when it was referred to by the African Americans. One law t .....
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Attempts To End Slavery
.... need for slavery, it actually had the opposite effect—the south now needed slavery more than ever. In addition, before Missouri joined the union, many northerners opposed the idea of Missouri becoming a state because it would allow the expansion of slavery and also give them an advantage in the senate. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Henry Clay proposed to let Missouri enter the union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. It was accepted since it preserved the balance between slave states and free states. With the passage of the Missouri Compromise, slavery became a national issue.
Soon the abolitionist movement aros .....
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The Trail Of Tears
.... In the end, this alliance would bring about one of the most devastating betrayals the Cherokee Nation would know – coming in the guise of Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson demanded the concession of twenty-three million acres of land to the United States. The Cherokee Nation, however, owned four million acres of this land. The Cherokees protested again to Indian agent Jonathan Meigs in the War Department. Once again their former ally called these claims "Cherokee intrigue". Andrew Jackson then suggested, with troops already in the field, that this would be the perfect time to remove the Cherokees as well as the Creeks out of Te .....
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The Constitution In The 1850's: Unity Or Discord
.... push the United States closer to the Civil War (Grolier, Kansas-Nebraska Act).
Peculiar Institution was an "euphemistic term that southerners used as a pseudonym for slavery"(Dictionary, 241). John C. Calhoun defended the "peculiar labor" of the South in 1828 and the "peculiar domestic institution" in 1830. The term came into general use in the 1830's when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd Garrison began to attack slavery (ibid, 241).
Slave states were those states where slave-holding was authorized by law before the Civil War. After the American Revolution, slavery disappeared from areas north of Delaware and Mar .....
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Mexican-American War
.... soil.” When the Americans heard of this, General Stephen W. Kearny commanded his army to take over the city of Santa Fe. They did so without even having to fire a shot because the Mexicans already evacuated the town before the U.S. troops got there. After this first happened, many other fights for territories occurred.
One of the final battles of the war began on September 8th when artillery began to bombard Molino del Rey and Casa Mata in Mexico City. After mortal attacks on these two cities, on September 13th the U.S. troops prevailed and raised their flag over the castle. The war was now officially over.
On September 14 .....
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United States Enter War!
.... recent cartoon that was included when the American newspaper published the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann. The British had gotten the note and passed it on here, to the Americans. This telegram included Zimmermann proposing a deal with Mexico. It was understood that Zimmermann had propose a deal that stated if Mexico would join Germany in the Great War, Mexico would receive a few states. These states included New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona, but this was only after a German victory.
That same month Germans sank four of our merchant ships. Thirty-six lives were lost. This was the last straw. On April 2, 1917 President W .....
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Assimilation Of The Native Americans
.... started to fill up Britain’s western colony. The gold rush enhanced the popularity of the colony and the settlers became preoccupied with its wealth to deal with themselves adapting to the rights of the Natives and instead were pushed aside and European assimilation began . The settlers were told of the extreme racial differences and beliefs and decided that the only theirs were valid. They saw the Native culture and spiritual beliefs as heathenistic and barbaric; nonetheless, there was the odd settler that saw the cultures of the Northwest Coast to be astounding. Overall, the settlers knew that if they were going to domi .....
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The Sixties - Years Of Hope, Days Of Rage
.... would listen and gave numerous speeches against the war of Vietnam. He went to conferences, walked many picket lines, and traveled to Cuba in 1967, where he shared his views and beliefs. During the Democratic Convention in 1968, police were called, tear gas was thrown, and armed officers used objects of force against anymore that caused a disturbance. This type of rioting was demonstrated at the San Francisco State College and Berkeley’s People’s park in 1968 and 1969 with the same outcome of law enforcement prepared to silence the crowds. Todd Gitlin went from a mild socialist to a “radical,” “anti-imperialist,” a partisan o .....
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The Disadvantages Of The South During The Civil War
.... of slavery. The North’s economy was more industrial. The North could supply their army with clothes, food, and firearms much easier than the South could. The North had more industries and supplies. The Union had approximately 1,300,000 industrial workers compared to the Confederacy’s 110,000. The North’s advantage would enhance as the civil war wore on. The South lacked the economy to sustain a lengthy civil war.
Besides the advantage of having more products, the North also had a higher taxation income. The North taxed its citizens over 23% of their income, whereas the South taxed a mere 17% of their citizens .....
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