...Why Did the Lone Star Fight The Civil War was one of the most famous wars in history; with a gruesome 620,000 deaths from America legitimately fighting itself. The Civil War was brought upon the “United States” because of the controversy on slaves; the Confederacy (the south) wanted to keep slavery, while the Union (the north) wanted to abolish it. Texas was part of the Confederacy, which leads us to the question, why did Texans fight? Texans fought in the Civil War because of their love for Texas, belief in State’s Rights, and to protect/preserve slavery. Patriotism for their state was one of the reasons Texans fought. John Rabb, a Texan who fought in the Civil War wrote several letters back home, revealing patriotism for Texas more than...
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...Fighting for Texas The civil war was only fought in the country of America. This was a fight that was between the North and the South. The South was a big believer of a terrible way of labor called slavery. On the other hand, the people up in the North strongly disagreed. Texas being a slave state had a big decision to make if they wanted to fight in the war. Texas fought in the civil war because of state rights, the love and loyalty to Texas, and the most important, protection of slavery. In 1861 Texas along with many other states wanted to leave the union. This made many people around America very mad. Texas became mad when they when they were informed that the could not leave the union. “ No state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully...
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...“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.” -Martin Luther King Jr. In 1860, 3,950,528 slaves were 13% of the United State’s Population. Thousands of Texans wanted to keep their slaves so they fought against the inexperienced north to keep their slaves, but some Texans didn’t own slaves. So, why did Texans fight in the Civil War? Well, Texans had many reasons why they would fight. Many Texans bore arms because their love for Texas, to preserve slavery, and states rights. Texans fought because of their passion for Texas. “...for if I ever marry it will be in Texas” (Document D). “He served with a famous cavalry unit called Terry’s Texas Rangers…” (Document D). This man fought for about four years in this service, and four years he fought for Texas. John Rabb fought for the South. The document says that most of the Rangers wanted to be in Texas at that moment, they might’ve lived in Texas and wanted to see their family. John Rabb had written letters to his family throughout the years, so he also wanted to behold his family as well. John Rabb and the rest of his ranger friends wanted to be in Texas with their family. In addition, Texans...
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...Texas and the Fight for Independence Erin Rall 11-5-15 History 113 Prof. Townsend Did you know that stealing cattle or putting graffiti on someone else’s cow is a hanging offense in Texas? Something else you may not have known was that at the time of the Texas Revolution many Texans and Americans thought that the annexation of Texas to the Union would be a swift one. Instead, the hard road to annexation took nine long years (1836-1845) and as a result, Texas developed its own unique national pride and culture that persists today (Ch. 14 PowerPoint). The great desire to acquire new lands by the Americans saw them look to the easily accessible areas that were available in all of the Mexican borderlands. In the 1820`s settlers from various states...
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...THE ALAMO I chose to write about the Alamo because I watched this movie when I was younger and wanted to watch it again now that I have a better perspective on the history that took place in the Battle for the Alamo. The movie takes place in San Antonio in early 1836, 6,000 Mexicans marched to The Alamo to fight a group of patriots of 187 strong; they were led by Colonel William B. Travis. During the 10 days of fighting, the Mexicans fought and fired their cannons until they were able to climb over the walls of The Alamo., to defeat the patriots. Among the dead were frontiersmen Davy Crockett and the Bowie brothers. This paper will explain how John Hancock interprets the history of the Alamo, along with the characterization of William B. Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie and finally the cinematography of the movie of the story of the Alamo. Colonel William B. Travis was a main character of the Movie. Travis was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel of the Legion of Cavalry and became the chief recruiting officer for a new regular Texan army. Governor Henry Smith ordered Travis to raise a company of professional soldiers to reinforce the Texans under James C. Neill at the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. On February 3, Travis arrived in San Antonio with eighteen regulars as reinforcements. A compromise was reached between Bowie and Travis for command of the Alamo; with Bowie in command the volunteers and Travis in command of the regulars. When Bowie's health began to fail, it...
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...If you think that starting a new job or moving to a new state is difficult, imagine building a whole new society. Many challenges came along with building Nuevo Mexico, and nothing was close to perfect. As you will see in the next few paragraphs, there were many trials and tribulations that even the highest of power had to go through. Many fights were fought and many lives were lost. In the year 1716 there was an attack in Taos by the Ute warriors, which, unfortunately was not anything they were not used too. They had to endure many raids by the Ute and the Navajo peoples. In result of this, the people of Taos had to move to its present day location in New Mexico. In 1750 multiple Comanche men came to Taos looking to trade. Even though...
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...and English April 20, 2017 Unjustified War with Mexico An incident occurred in the disputed territory north of the Rio Grande. Reports suggest 16 Americans were killed. The number of Mexican soldiers killed is unknown. 70 soldiers were attacked by a much larger Mexican force. The United States was not justified in going to War with Mexico because tensions were high, derision, and upsetting Mexico. “In Texas at the Alamo, Texans won their independence from Mexico in 1836.” (p.317 ph. 4). “In late 1844, James K. Polk was elected president of the United States.” (p.317 ph. 6). “In 1821, Mexico declared itself free its mother country, Spain.” (p.317 ph. 2). “The War of 1812 caused New England...
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...April 29, 2013 Cause and Effect of War The Vietnam War was during the years of 1964-1975. This is the longest military conflict in U.S. History. Around 85,000 Americans were killed during this war. This war cost over 150 billion dollars. The war involved the North Vietnamese army and the National Liberation Front on one side against the United States and the South Vietnamese army. The war was fought in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and a little in North Vietnam. One cause of the war was that the Vietnamese had struggled for their independence from France which was a result of the First Indochina War. As a result of this war, the country was divided into North and South Vietnam. The United States got involved in Vietnam because U.S. authorities thought that if the whole country fell under communist control, this would cause a domino effect and communism would spread through all of Southeast Asia. This was the reason to get involved in Vietnam. When the Japanese finally surrendered on September 2, 1945 in the First Indochina war, Ho also declared independence for Vietnam. The French refused to accept Vietnam’s independence, and later drove the Viet Minh into the north of the country. In 1965, the United States sent troops to help maintain the Southern Vietnamese government. Unfortunately, their plan didn’t work and in 1975 Vietnamese was under Communist control. The United States demanded for Japan to leave Indochina, or else they would be forced to use military action. After...
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...The money problems and political instability from Spain troubled latin america which caused problems for mexico. Mexico was one of the only countries to share a border with the U.S even though they were really aggressive to Mexico. The United states wanted to increase their region to the Pacific Ocean because it was about two million miles of land. Although, they knew that the majority of the American Southwest was owned by mexico. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna lead the mexican fight for independence in spain, which stopped spain from ruling over mexico. 8 years later spain tried to take over mexico once again because they wanted to regain power. Santa Anna became president after he led the war against the United States, which gave him power...
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...The Mexican-American War Samuel Lebron HIST/110CA June 18, 2015 Dr. J. Randall III Introduction The Mexican-American war according to many has a lot of controversy behind it. Many believe that the war was really initiated and provoked by the United States, and President at the time, James K. Polk. Polk envisioned a much larger America (territory) that would one day reach from the east all the way to the west (Pacific Ocean). Amid the controversy of whether it was Mexico or the United States that started this conflict, one thing is for certain, the end result of this war would help shape the U.S. in more than one ways than one. It is believed by many that newspaper editor John O’ Sullivan came up with the term Manifest Destiny, which really was a time when American families started looking west in search of new lands and opportunity, and while many were motivated by religious beliefs and the movement of the second awakening, thinking they could reach the natives and convert them to Christianity, others were simply motivated by the economic potential (e.g. fur trade) the west had. Unfortunately many Americans, mostly from the south also sought new lands but for the wrong reasons, reasons such as acquiring more lands for the expansion of cotton cultivation, thus also spreading more slavery. One of the main events that lead to the war was the dispute of boundaries between Mexico and the United States and the union of Texas with the U.S. Mexico did not...
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...How far do you agree that the impact of the Second World War was the main reason why the position of African Americans improved in the years 1945-55? It is clear that the Second World War played a vital part in improving the lives of African Americans between 1945 and 1955. However, the impact of the war was lessened by other factors that brought about change such as the civil rights groups and President Truman. These factors were able to convert de jure change into de facto change; something the Second World Wars alone was unable to do. World War Two had a dramatic effect on civil rights for Black Americans. Over 1.2 million black men joined the U.S army during the war and the experience radicalised them. Northern blacks were often trained in rural military camps in the Southern states, this was their first experience of formal racial segregation. They were appalled to know they were fighting a racist opponent, yet being treated as a second class citizen and receiving prejudice treatment back home. Consequently, the black soldiers used the ‘Double V’ sign, which meant they were fighting for two victories: victory overseas and victory over racism at home. The war also began to change the racist attitudes of whites. The United States and her allies were fighting a racist opponent, Hitler, who passionately believed in a ‘Master race’. In the past, white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan had presented racism as something that was both natural and noble, however, the...
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...Introduction: In 2005, the movie Syriana was released in the United States. Directed by Stephen Gaghan and produced by George Clooney this thriller is about the bitter fight of the United States for the control of the remaining oil supplies on Earth. For this movie project, George Clooney entered into a partnership with billionaire Jeff Skoll. Founder of e-bay and Participant productions, Jeff Skoll advertises social change through movies and documentaries. One of the main goals of the movie Syriana is to popularize the oil conflict and the behavior of each of the many entities involved in this conflict. The major part of hydrocarbon remaining on Earth is situated in the Near East. Syriana highlighted the drying state of worldwide exploitable oil reserves and the intense economic fight for controlling them. A situation which raises doubts about the current mode of development of industrialized countries like the United States. Highly dependent of this resource, this dependence, one which will modify international relations. The movie emphasizes the will of the United States to control strategic hydrocarbon deposits. During the movie the viewer is interlocked into several stories, involving numerous character between Orient and Occident all linked by the same issue. The film provides different point of view of the conflict through characters representing the main actors of the conflict. The CIA with George Clooney, a private consulting firm in Geneva through Matt Damon, the US...
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...of African-Americans in the years 1945-55, the first being World War II, the second is Presidents and the third is Civil Rights Organisations. There are a few significant factors that occurred as a result of the Second World War. For example, the 'Double V Campaign' of 1942. Two months after the Bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese, the Pittsburgh Courier (the most popular black newspaper in America) published the campaign to everyone. It called for a victory on two fronts, it was a campaign for African-Americans to give their all in the war effort and for black people to fight racial discrimination back home in America. The editor of the newspaper wrote "We call upon the President and Congress to declare war on Japan and against racial prejudice in our country." This was significant because it gave African-Americans a chance to prove how much of a positive impact they could have on the war and this in turn could show current white racists a different view on them. Additionally, it could be argued that because it was quite a big newspaper, more people across America would see it, and therefore it could potentially have more of an effect on the general opinion. Another factor was the black soldiers who returned home as heroes after the Second World War. It changed the attitudes of white people all across America but more specifically, white soldiers who had fought alongside them in the war. Before the war, white servicemen were disgruntled by the fact that black people...
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...noon, church was over and most of the sweltering residents had sought refuge from the sun and heat inside their homes or offices. Around 1:10 P.M. the scream of “Fire” reverberated through the streets of downtown followed by the rush of half-clothed citizens rushing to see smoke in a two-story building on Commerce Street. Fire swept north to consume a warehouse and then to the Dallas Herald office-quickly engulfing Dallas’ entire business section.[1] Extensive media coverage of the July 1860 fires in Dallas potentially incited a heightened fear of slave revolts throughout Texas and promoted the formation of vigilante groups. Newspapers served as a medium to spread fear, rumors, and ultimately, panic and violence among white Texans. Yellow Journalism presented exaggerated headlines and stories that linked natural disasters and catastrophes to current fears of the day. The nation was undergoing a sectional split over the issue of slavery and white southerners were on the alert for potential slave plots and uprisings that were spurred by northern abolitionists and Unionists. The Dallas fires were just the sort of sensationalism that could garner increased support of anti-Union constituents and promote the Democratic Party agenda. Letters about the fires written by the Dallas Herald’s editor, Charles R. Pryor, originally published in the Dallas Herald, Houston’s Weekly Telegraph, Marshall’s Texas Republican, and Austin’s Texas State Gazette, were reprinted...
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...Lyndon Baines Johnson is the prominent Texan I have chosen to write about in this assignment. The main point in this paper will include his early years , political years ,family, health and death. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born August 27,1908 in Stonewall, Texas to Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. and Rebekah Baines . Lyndon was the oldest of 5 children. He had 3 sisters and 1 brother. When he was 5 years old his family moved to Johnson City, Texas where he attended public school. He graduated from Johnson City High School in 1924. He attended Southwest Texas State Teachers’ College in San Marcos from 1926 to 1930, where he was a history and social science major. He participated in debate and campus politics, and he edited the school newspaper (The College Star), now known as The University Star. During his four years of college he took 9 months off to take a teaching job at the Mexican American children at the segregated Welhausen School in Cotulla, Texas to earn money to complete his college degree. After graduating from college Lyndon became a teacher at Pearsall High School in Pearsall, Texas, and he taught public speaking at Sam Houston High in Houston, Texas. In 1930 Johnson decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and get involved in politics. His father served six terms in the Texas Legislature. Lyndon’s father was a good friend of Congressman Sam Rayburn. Congressman Rayburn helped Johnson get involved in Texas politics by having him campaign for Texas...
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