The same passion that built the United States of America ended up ripping it apart. A minor skirmish that started by accident, exploded into the deadliest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. Two American armies face-off in a small Pennsylvania farm town, Gettysburg, in what is the bloodiest and arguabl...
Booth learned from Harry Ford that later that night President Lincoln and General Ulysses S. ... Lincoln survived the night, continuing to breathe heavy breaths, and there was still hope that he might survive. ... While riding throughout the night with Herold, Booth's broken leg was bothering him. ...
Dawning masks and robes that hid their identities, the Klan members preformed night rides on their primary targets. ... An example of these night rides comes from a news article on a brutal attack of an African America man named Bird Sims in the town of Chester, South Carolina. ...
Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave to the waiting maid. ... Grimke, found out about these late night tutoring sessions, the waiting maid was given a beating as a warning; Sarah was also harshly reprimanded. ...
Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave to the waiting maid. ... Grimke, found out about these late night tutoring sessions, the waiting maid was given a beating as a warning; Sarah was also harshly reprimanded. ...
The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....
The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. Both, the African Americans and Native Americans were challenged by the hardships of the whites thr...
Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...
