The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century was written by Catherine Clinton. Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and later studied sociology and African American History at Harvard University, graduating in 1973. Clinton maintains strong research interest in US history, specifically women’s history. She had published many popular books that examine different perspectives toward women’s contribution during the nineteenth century, how African-American women played a major role during the American Revolution. As we speak for women, Catherine Clinton pointed out that women were left out entirely in US’s history, their …show more content…
Just like men, women were seeking for a better life, economic, and freedom of religion. Perhaps, they were treated as equally as men, if there were not enough food, women would not be the first one to eat or get full. But at the same time, the amount of works they putted in were not, or even more, less than what men did. For example, Judith Giton, she was one of the refugees, wrote:” I have been six months without tasting bread, working like ground slave; and I have even passed three and four years without having food when I wanted it.” The author used this evidence to show the audience the role of women in the early age of America, they still need to put a lot of effort into farming and building the community, but then their contributions were totally ignored by the society. Furthermore, the introduction of “civilization”-European influence-brought about decline in female status, specifically Indians females, they were viewed as more susceptible to religion and moral coercion, the white disagreed of strong roles for women, they distorted images of Indian women as well as men to support their own political and economic drives to dominate, and drain Indian cultures. Speaking of an Indian woman, Tekakawiha (Lily of the Mohawks), she joined the Catholic Church at the age of eighteen, but still then earned her the enmity of tribal leader. This is showing the women do play a major roles within Indian tribe, as it was their cultures and religion (such as mother of earth), but the the whites wanted males to dominate politically and economically, then this believes started to fade, not as vivid as
interpretation of the views from both the North and South concerning the events and causes leading up to the Civil War. Pressly reveals how the North saw the Southern’s succession as a treasonous rebellion, however, did not place the blame on the entire population but instead on the work of tyrannical Southern politicians. They saw slavery to be the reason for secession and not anything they had done, therefore through their “lust of power” the Confederates alone were guilty of the blood shed and the war which they began when they fired on Fort Sumter. Moreover, the South believed their secession to be their constitutional right as free, sovereign states and
The civil war was a devastating time for many people. Although it was only expected to last 6 months it ended up taking 4 years before it was over. . The war started in 1861 and ended in 1865. The 2 sides of the war were the union and confederates. The union was on the north side and the confederates were on the south. The south wanting state rights and the north not wanting slaves anymore caused the war. After 4 many long years the North won.
The 22nd and 28th Iowa Regiments left Hamburg in June of 1865. Their war was over.
If we read deep into Zinn's A Peoples history of the United States, we may find details into our American DNA. Where and what we originally come from, what it took to get here, and how far we have progressed. While uncovering many chapters in the book, I found myself going back for more of Chapter 10: The Other Civil War. As for myself, I was never aware of another Civil War, only familiarizing myself with one. As I was reading these historical pages and awing at my founders and leaders before me, I found myself as engaged I have ever been in a historical novel. Zinn opened my eyes as a non-historical junky. Reading Zinn I found myself remembering one of the greatest quotes by George Santayana, "Those who do not
The Civil War was a major part of American History which changed the country, after the Civil War America had a greater challenge, reconstructing the Union. The period of Reconstruction led to tumultuous times for the nation. There are many reasons the United States was in Chaos after the Civil War, such as the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the 14th Amendment, etc. One of the reasons that caused the Civil War was Slavery and after the War, President Lincoln wanted to put no Slavery in the Constitution because the Emancipation Proclamation was a military action and could be potentially be rejected by Southern States. Another reason the 13th Amendment caused chaos is because the Amendment freed all slaves, many with little to no education and only knew how to work on plantations.
The Civil War began as a purely military effort with limited political objectives. The North was fighting for reunification, and the South for independence. But as the war progressed, the Civil War gradually turned into a social, economic and political revolution with unforeseen consequences.
In the month of February 1861, seven states had already left the Union to form the Confederacy. After the bombardment of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln took action and ordered his troops to save the Union. By doing this, however, he caused four more states to join the Confederacy.
"Run! Run as fast and as far as you can. RUN!" Three children have been running all their lives, for their lives. They were running from unwinding, in which parents sign an order which allows all of a child’s organs to be transplanted into separate donors, so life technically does not terminate. A result of the Second Civil War, which was fought over reproductive liberties, the threat of unwinding throws Connor, Risa and Lev into the streets as they run from the law.
The civil war was a war fought between the north and the south. The periods of the war went from 1861 to 1865. The ways in which slavery and Abraham Lincoln are portrayed very differently in Nast’s cartoon of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H. Stephens’ “cornerstone speech”. The majority of the northern states had a different view than the southern states. Ultimately, the south along with Stephens went against the deceleration of independence which states “that all men are created equal”. Stephen’s Manipulation of science and religion played a big part in the beliefs of the confederacy leaving Abraham Lincoln no choice but to stand up for what was morally right.
When discussing the important work of William Freehling it reminds us how complex and often-overlooked facts are about the civil war. It was one of the bloodiest wars fought by a nation to decide the fate of slavery in America. Over 6000,000 lives were lost. This might not have happened if all the southern states would have committed to the confederacy I believe Freehlings work convincingly shows this. Not only were the southern states not committed to the confederacy they were divided among there self. There was division between the free labor states and the slave states. This was going to cause the southern state to have to fight each other. The Border South stayed neutral for a long time. This leaving the Border States (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware) open and to win this war you would need these states. Then joined the north side. Lincoln knew to win this war he would have to have control of the import city?s, ports and the amount of supplies that the confederate army received. Having control of the Border States would do all this.
This chapter is about the reconstruction era which overlapped the civil war starting in 1863 and came to an end in 1877 when Hayes became president and troops were removed from the south. In 1863 Lincoln proposed the Ten Percent Plan, which would reinstate the southern states if 10% of the 1860 voters agree to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S and abide by the Thirteenth Amendment, abolish slavery. Confederates rejected this plan. In 1864 Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, which would make readmission for the stats more difficult. Lincoln later vetoed the bill. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 and Andrew Johnson became president.
The changes that took place after the Civil War for ex-slaves was definitely a life altering event. Most of these individuals had already been separated from their families prior to the war, then afterwards they were left with their freedom, however, many of them not have a penny to their name (The University of Richmond, 2008). After the war, many of the ex-slaves traveled around just to feel their new found freedom while others were not sure how to feel (Schultz, 2013). It was shared that some of them thought that at least while they were slaves they had a place to sleep, eat and were receiving proper medical care. These individuals felt in the new world that they were living in this was far from the case. They were responsible for making
There is a meaning that is withheld in what we see everyday, whether it be in a painting, writing, or in a photo, we all have certain perspectives on different subjects and that’s one of the things that brings a divergence in the path of thoughts. All of three mentioned above are a way that our history as a nation can be preserved, unless of course there’s a fire and everything goes up in flames within seconds and just like that, everything is gone, and this is why copies are important everyone. Oh, what’s that? The south and north are so angry with each other that they’re actually throwing punches instead of throwing words at each other. Wait, did you mean books? Nope, letters to show how much they disagree with one another’s ideas,
It was a beautiful day outside the first day of spring break. It was a good day to play outside, but I was stuck in a car and had been for the past four hours! “How much longer?” I asked my mom. “Are we at least in Washington D.C.?” “Yes” my mom replied “but this D.C. traffic is terrible.” Then out of nowhere I felt the car jump and shake a little and then it slowly rolled to a stop. Great I thought now we have to spend 1,000,000 more hours in this car ugh!
It was 1775 john and Sarah who were farmers who had two petite sons they lived near the city of Luxington. John nervously paced the room until he started shouting “taxes taxes taxes on everything! what is King George doing? And his blasted redcoats are everywhere! Adam and Handcock are right we need to store arms up to protect ourselves.” He exclaimed, his wife Sarah replied “do you think it will come to war” “I hope not but we must be prepared I’ve joined the minute men who are hiding ammunition in concord we will be ready to fight if we need to.”