Eli Whitney is the man for cotton. He was practicing law, but ended up in an agricultural economy. The south was not “the south” until about the 1800's. Planters lived in places like South Carolina. There was an “Alabama Fever” that persuaded many Carolinian people to move out west. During the 1800's white planters decided that moving west would be a beneficial option for them, so they did and they packed up their African American slaves also. Slaves were abundant to the planters, so work at plantations
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Lincoln uses the word "we" to talk about the whole nation, Southerners and Northerners. He uses the word "we" to say that both groups are the same and need to put their differences aside. They both fought in the war to settle their differences of slavery and the "opposing views on the issue of states’ rights." (The Boys' War, paragraph 1) But it is also destroying the nation. The text states, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so
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Battlefield Report: The Battle and Surrender of Appomattox Courthouse It was the 8th of April, 1865. Merely days earlier, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia had evacuated Petersburg and Richmond . After a day and night of persistent marching while under pursuit from Union General U.S. Grant, Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia settled near Appomattox Courthouse. Lee’s objective was the South Side Railroad where much-needed food supplies awaited (www.civilwar.org)
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Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president and was in term during the civil war. On April 12, 1861, the confederates claimed Fort Sumter and forced the down the American flag to show the surrender. There were many other long battles about where the border line was for North and South. The most significant date that helped the Union win the war was November 3, 1861, where they used ships to blockade the South from the imports of Europe and other countries. “For three long years, from 1862 to 1865, Robert
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Charlottesville, Va., August 12, rekindled sentiment to remove Confederate monuments and statues throughout the United States. The immediate call to remove all Confederate statues, plaques and commemoratives is commendable, but not pragmatic. Since the protests, statues have been removed in 22 cities, many of which were not even in Confederate states. These monuments are located in 31 states. Meanwhile, only 11 states in America were Confederate states. The establishment of them across the nation was gradual
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What you consider to be the three most significant claims made by the speaker? The mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu’s gives a speech on the removal of confederate monuments in New Orleans dated May 23, 2017. Mitch is very proud of what he has done and seems to be convinced that he made the right decision. I see that the Landrieu’s has quite a few claims that he mentions in his speech. As for myself I consider the following to be the three most significant claims made by Landrieu’s. The first
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Dearest Brother, How fondly I remember you. To think one of the Yankee's is my dear brother. I've written to mother twice up North in Massachusetts. I know she does not think of writing back. What pain it brings me to say this, but I am not giving up on the Confederacy. I do not plan on leaving. What do you fight for? For the federals? Brother, you are fighting for injustice. You wish for a group of those high in power to muffle the cries and rights we have. What is democracy without the opinion
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Vicksburg. Invading the North would also take pressure off farms and the breadbasket of the South, the Shenandoah Valley. Any Confederate victories in the North would encourage Lincoln to negotiate a settlement to end the war. It would also gain the attention of France and England, two countries which the Confederacy courted for resources. Before the battle, Confederate General Henry Heth brought 7,500 troops down from Chambersburg where they encountered minimal Union resistance and
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Good Morning, even though I opposed war and thought of slavery as a social evil, I knew that I had to arise and support the south. “Strike the tent,” is the last words I said at hour of my death. I was an imperative person in the Confederacy who contributed much to the Civil War due to my high ranking as an army general. As one of the south’s greatest heroes in the Civil War, I won many battles with my well trained armies and battle plans. As a general, I trained my superb troops to lead
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Another reason why others and I are pro secession is, a state will secede because they have no common interest with whom they seceded from. When looking at the Maine secession before Maine seceded, all of the farmers from Massachusetts moved to Maine for the richer soil and overall better farming conditions, but Massachusetts was made up mostly of coastal merchants. These are vey different types of careers that have next to nothing in common. With nothing in common these two areas have no unity and
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