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After the Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, northern and southern states were unable to see eye to eye. Both sides had different point of views regarding slavery issues. After the election of Lincoln, many southerner’s states were fed up and decided to secede the Union. These seceded states were known as the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. The formation of the seceded states led to a bloody battle between Americans on their own soil at the dispense of their citizens.

and passion. The entrepreneur of my choice for this assignment is Madam C.J Walker. Americas first African American self-made millionaire. She was born as Sara Breedlove on December 23, 1867. At the age of seven Sara got orphaned and moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi where she was able to survive by working cotton fields. Her Sara lived with her older sister, Louveina, and brother-in-law,

The Civil War was all the Northern States’ fault. The “issue” of slavery should not have bothered them in the first place. If someone had a problem with slavery the solution was simple: don’t own slaves. Instead, they tried meddling with slavery which lead to the Southern States’ secession and eventually, the Civil War. In my opinion, I think it all began with these new territories acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Northern States refused to allow slavery to enter this new land. Southern

sentence, “No term except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted” (Ulysses S. Grant). By 1862, Ulysses was at war and really putting a stop to the American Civil War. According to History. com, “In July 1863, Grant’s forced captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, a Confederate

Introduction Blues is a music genre originating in Africa .This genre emerged with the introduction of African people as slaves to America's south. Slaves were employed in poor conditions in the cotton fields before the Civil War. Making music meant avoiding the pain for them. People think Blues music is slow and smooth because the lyrics of the Blues music always includes depression, loneliness and anger. After the emancipation movement, Blues expanded to lots of states. Each states blended their

Essay 5: The American Revolutionary War and the Civil War The American Revolutionary War and the Civil War both had colossal effects on the American landscape and on society – both were fought for the sake of liberty and freedom, and both helped realize the purposes and goals of the young United States. Yet, it was the Civil War that drastically changed the cultural and social order of the United States. When the delegates of the Constitutional Convention met at Philadelphia and debated

Unified Land Operations defines the army operational design methodology (ADM) as “a methodology for applying critical and creative thinking to understand, visualize, and describe unfamiliar problems and approaches to solving them. The operational design methodology incorporated into army doctrine serves as a method to compliment the military decision making process (MDMP). Although the ADM it is often confused with replacing MDMP, its purpose is to address complex problems from a nonlinear approach

The warfare mentality went from a war of mobility, to a war of attrition and that was due to the establishment of trench warfare throughout the battlefield. Trench warfare was no doubt a horrifying and awful type of warfare that caused countless non-battle deaths, yet it was necessary at the time. Without trench warfare, the war would have been a short but extremely bloody war because there was no way to combat the ferocity of the new weapons used in the war and there was no way to advance on the

William Wang Mrs. Smart Book Report Midterm Report Underground Railroad Dramatic First-Hand Accounts 1. Alabama a. Narrative of Peter Still i. This narrative appears in stills Underground Railroad Records ii. One of the greatest documents of the underground railroad iii. The life, struggles, and success of Peter and his Family were ably brought before the public in “The Kidnapped and the Ransoms” iv. His Parents Levin and Sidney were both

The Irrepressible Conflict Among many historians, the Civil War was irrepressible and therefore inevitable. The rising sectional struggles over the issue of slavery between the 1840s to late 1850s inevitably led to Confederate secession from the Union and ultimately the Civil War. The issue of “slavery had to expand or die” generated intense conflict between pro and anti-slavery forces to the point of which diplomacy and reconciliation was unthinkable.(Why War Came 363) Furthermore, both groups