Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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How the Civil War Started The Civil War started on April 12, 1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter and lasted until April 9, 1865 when Lee’s army finally surrendered at the courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia. This war revolved into one of the bloodiest in American History; the people of the nation were so divided that, in some families, brother fought against brother. During the war, America was divided into two nations: the North that was labeled “the Union” and the South that was titled “the Confederacy”. The causes of this war are numerous and debatable. However, the most debated, relevant, and obvious causes include: Conflicts of slavery, the election of President Abraham Lincoln, and the secession of the southern states. Slavery had caused…show more content…
Her book Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, showed not only how slavery brutalized the men and women who were forced to endure it, but also how the establishment of slavery affected slaveholders. Stowe personalized the experiences and effects of slavery and convinced many Americans that slavery was morally wrong. This book later served as fuel to the abolitionist cause of ending the war. Uncle Tom's Cabin is dominated by a single theme: the evil and immorality of slavery. While Stowe has other subthemes throughout her text, such as the moral authority of motherhood and the redeeming possibilities offered by Christianity, she emphasizes the connections between these and the horrors of slavery. Stowe sometimes changed the story's voice so, she could give a speech on the destructive nature of slavery (H. B. Stowe). This made the south feel like their way of life was being…show more content…
Most of these battles only lasted a day or two, maybe a week at the most, but a few select battles lasted much longer than that. The three longest battles were the siege of Fort Macon on March 23, 1862 in North Carolina and lasted until April 26, 1862 totaling thirty-four days. The second longest battle was the siege of New Madrid, which started on March 3, 1862 in Missouri and ended on April 8, 1862 lasting a total of thirty-six days. The longest out of the entire Civil War was the siege of Port Hudson in Louisiana starting on May 21, 1863 and not ending until July 9, 1863: a total of a grueling forty-eight days of battle. There are a few battles that are better known than others. One of the most famous battles of the entire Civil War is the Battle of Gettysburg. The battle only lasted about three days starting on July 1, 1863 until July 3, 1863, but it was one of the most deadly of the entire war. In just those three days 51,000 lives were lost. Even though there were so many lives lost, it is most famous for how much of a defeat for the South the loss of this battle was; to most historians it is considered the turning point in the war. On the afternoon of November 19, 1863 one of the most famous speeches was made by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: The Gettysburg Address. Lincoln (1863) speaks: Four score and seven years ago our fathers
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