Wars cannot be won without sacrifices. A war without casualties can, in fact, hardly be classified as a war. Although there is no need for mindless bloodshed, if one hundred soldiers are killed destroying the enemy sides’ supply lines, the gain outweighs the loss. War is a strategic chess game, where sometimes a pawn must be sacrificed to make way for the queen to take out the king and win the game. For instance, in the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American
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When watching “The Burning Mississippi” we saw that when the Ku Klux Klan would do something to the African American people they would leave a burning cross as their marker. When watching the movie I wondered what this meant to the Klan, so I decided to research that topic. When thinking about the cross I assume it is a bad thing and the burning cross is something of terror for the people. The burning of the cross shows that Christ is still alive, and that they are “burning away evil”. A leader
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America lost 260,000 people in the Civil War. The food on the Civil War was given for both Union and Confederate soldiers and it was provided by their respective Commissary De- partments, but the daily rations were given to the soldiers uncooked. Generals and other officers had the comfort of a cook, but the majority of the soldiers were collected in groups to prepare their food. The food during the Civil War wasn't high quality and it didn't taste good. according to “Ken. “Civil War Food
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The book, A Light in the Storm by Karen Hesse is a prodigious and inspiring story read in the perspective of 15 year old, Amelia Martin. Amelia is a Union girl living in the division of Delaware in the beginning of the Civil War. Amelia struggles to keep her parents’ hectic marriage in one piece. Although Amelia is just a young teenage girl, she definitely has many adult responsibilities resting on her shoulders. For example, in the morning she teaches schoolchildren. Then, she goes to the Fenwick
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causes of this war? The Civil War, as most know was the war against the North and the South. Although debates on the causes are common for this subject, the overall cause of the Civil War was the differences between the Northern and Southern states on slavery. Southern states wanted slavery, but the south did not agree with this. When adding territories to America these arguments posed a problem which lead to temporary solutions like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leading to people protesting, like John
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resistance on the spreading of slavery in the west as a threat. The fear that it could lead to the end of slavery, made them believe it would be best to leave the union. In 1860 with South Carolina being the first state, being followed by the other southern states filed to withdraw from the Union. In February of 1861 the became the Confederate States of America. This was not a decision that all the southerners voted for, the planters were the main reason for this. The Deep South was the first to withdraw
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Jacqueline Funes March 2, 2016 Professor Choflet AASP 202 Journal Entry #2 Paragraph 1: Argument: What is the main argument of this reading? Drew Faust’s main argument in this reading showing a power struggle between the enslaver versus the enslaved. The power struggle was began to build tensions in the recent years before emancipation. Quickly, Emancipation is the freeing of slaves so it is seen how this could cause conflict with the two groups. Paragraph 2: Evidence: What is the evidence does the
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condones racial hatred just by its presence which is alarming because these flags are still sold and used throughout the country. Overall, these aspects of the Confederacy lead to the conclusion that the Confederate flag engenders a sense of white southern nationalism and hostility towards African Americans; For many African Americans, the flag is a sign that racism has yet to come to an
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During Lincoln’s time as president, he had to deal with the issue of southern states seceding from the union. He personally was anti-slavery, but prioritized the sanctity of the union over ending slavery. Lincoln ended up ending slavery and saving the union, but it cost him his life. Lincoln often describes himself as a naturally anti-slavery man, but decides to do what he feels is right for the union rather than his personal views. His personal viewpoints sometimes differed from his public viewpoints
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and it not only powered segregation but also established the low status of freed Blacks in the South’s “heritage of caste” (Woodward 146). Jim Crow laws, or laws that publically “separated people of color from whites,” were first required in many Southern states, beginning with the separate cars available for Whites and Blacks to ride on railroads (“Separate is not Equal”). When the Jim Crow car bill was passed in Louisiana, the rising class of educated, cultured and dignified Colored men in New Orleans
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