"Most students of America's past realize that the Civil War marked a major turning point in the nation's history. ... In the south in places like Georgia and Alabama there were more plantations and they also had a much larger slave population. ...
Another example would be how Alabama's Leroy Pope Walker summarized that Republican rule would cost southerners first, "our property," "then our liberties," and finally "the sacred purity of our daughters" (79). ... One speech that Dew wrote about that showed pro slavery attitude was by Stephen Fowler Hale who was Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky. ... These speeches that Dew wrote about demonstrated how primary documents can be used to discover the truth about history and reveal the misconceptions of the modern- day opinion that the civil war was really about slavery. ...
It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... The seven states of the lower South (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) formed themselves into the Confederate States of America. ...
Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida were all readmitted to the Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ...
It would be an understatement to say that it was a tragic event in history. ... The Succession On December 20, 1860, more than two months before Lincoln was to be inaugurated, a state-wide convention in South Carolina voted to secede from the Union; following them over the next several weeks were more than six other states to recede, including Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.7 After the state's secession, it handed down orders that all forts and facilities of the U.S. military located in and around Charleston be ceded to state confederacy control; against the ...
The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... The only way that southern slaveholders maintained their status as such throughout the course of American history was through the societal indoctrination of certain religious, economic and moral principles which, the slaveholders argued, justified slavery. ... An editor o...
In January, within days of each other, Mississippi seceded from the Union, with Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas following. ... To recall briefly Richmond's history prior to the Civil War: Captain John Smith first landed here in 1607 at the falls of the James River. ... Can you tell that I've been drinking in history facts since this whole debate has started? ...
