On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and it lasted until April 9, 1865. Throughout the course of the four year battle between the Northern states and the Southern states. There were several comparisons and contrasts between General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee. The Civil War was started because of the economic, racial, and social issues between the Northern and Southern states in the United States. The aftermath of the war was a complete an utter devastation when it came to casualties.
When Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, he caused a lot of chaos. Many people started talking about him, and how bad he was as a president and a leader of the Civil war. On May 25th of 1861, a state legislator known as John Merryman was arrested by Lincoln and his military. This was going against the Constitution. He was arrested at his home in Maryland.
Also he was being attacked from the War Democrats because they wanted more compromise and the Copperheads hated him all together. In 1863 Lincolns Gettysburg Address became the most quoted speech in American history. Just six days after surrendering of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot and killed by Jon Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. marked the first ever assassination of any United State President and Lincoln is also known as the most decorated President and has been ranked by scholars as one on the greatest U.S. Presidents today (Wikipedia, 2011). Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross March, 1822 and died on March 10, 1913, she was a very decorated African American she was a abolitionist, humanitarian, and was a spy for the Union Army
The Battle of Shiloh The American Civil War, also known as the war between states, was a four yearlong war. The war began in 1861 with the battle of Fort Sumter, and ended in 1865, with the battle of Palmetto Ranch. The Civil War was a very bloody war, with over 620,000 deaths. This number is the highest number of deaths in the history of American wars. The war was fought over three main disagreements - economy, state rights, and slavery.
The disappearance of the three civil rights workers spawned a national media circus upon which the center of the nation's focus was on Philadelphia, Mississippi. The SNCC fearing that foul play was at hand contacted the FBI which refused to intervene on the basis that the issue was of a local concern. Pressure from prominent black leaders brought to Washington the case of the missing civil rights workers where upon Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ordered J. Edgar hoover to investigate. FBI agents where sent into Meridian and Philadelphia and after a grueling seven week investigation, the bodies of the slain civil rights workers were found entombed in an earthen dam. The hideous nature of the crimes committed by Deputy Cecil Price and other klansmen who participated in the murders shocked the nation but opposition to the voter registration initiative remained steadfast.
On the morning of March 16,1968 during the Vietnam War , a atrocity and violence against the village of My Lai in South Vietnam occurred .US Army troops were send to destroy everything in the village . Approximately from the 700 inhabitants , 504 innocent and non-combatants women , infants , elderly and young children Vietnamese were killed in three hours and by the Americans machine gun and weapons . Many were also Sexually assaulted , tortured, or mutilated in on of the most horrifying atrocities of the entire bloody conflict . Before the My Lai Massacre , the US Army and the Charlies Company , had suffered many attacks via booby-trap or land mine, resulting numerous injuries and many deaths . Many soldiers who were in the My Lai village
Genesis Villegas Mrs. Mia Reavis English 10 4 March, 2015 Booth “Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment” –John Wilkes Booth. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Booth was a confederate spy who was against Lincoln's abolishment of slavery, therefore taking matters into his own hands. This assassination is one of the most famous of all time, because ever since Lincoln’s death, many people haven’t felt the same way about politics since. On May 10, 1838, John Wilkes Booth was born near Bel Air, Maryland.
CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR On 12 April 1861, a military unit representing the Confederate States of America, the seven southern states that had seceded from the Union, attacked Fort Sumter. The presence of the Union-controlled post in South Carolina provoked Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, to order strikes. Within two days, the commander stationed at Sumter surrendered. But the assault spurred United States President Abraham Lincoln to rally thousands of troops to crush what he viewed as an insurrection ripening in the South. With that, the Civil War began.
darfurDarfur is a region in Sudan about the size of France. Around 6 million people live in Darfur with around 100 tribes ever since the massive drought in 2003 the government and rebel forces have been in an all-out war which is why the election of Sudanese president Omar al Bashir led to mass killings and oppression In 2003, two Darfur rebel movements- the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)- took up arms against the Sudanese government (united human rights) “genocide”. Ever since then Darfur has experienced awful crimes including genocide. President Omar al Bashir and the Sudan government sent Sudanese forces and Janjaweed militia to attack hundreds of villages throughout Darfur. Over 400 villages
The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in America that was fought by the conflict among our own people. The Civil War was fought mostly between the people for many different reasons, but it was the result of years of disagreements. The Civil War was caused separation between the north and south States. Slavery shall be abolished in order to reunite our country, United States of America. According to the article of abolition of slavery, “The two regions fought a civil war from 1861 to 1865 that exploited the distinctions between the northern states and the southern states.” This shows why the Civil War was being fought.