Fort Sumter

The social makeup of Charleston in the 18th and 19th century according to the U.S Census had a sprawling number of blacks. Charleston has partly become the hub of a trading center in North America because of the sugar plantation and the slave trading. The makeup of the city spanned among the Jews, Christian, Muslim and non-believers: this was due to John Locke encouragement or insisting of a religious tolerance. The City became heavily populated by black slaves from the Western African region…

Draft Riots of 1863 were two of the most common riots of the Civil War times. The Pratt Street Riot took place on April 29th, 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland at the President Street Station. This riot happened only five days after the surrender at Fort Sumter. When the 6th Massachusetts infantry arrived back to the north and began to change trains, the amount of people that had gathered around began to increase, and as it did, the tension increased also. When only two cars were left, the crowd…

American Civil War, also called, war between the states, war for four years (1861-1865) between the United States and 11 Southern states that secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The Civil War was a war to preserve the Union, which was the United States. Since the beginning of the Constitution, there were two different views on the role of the federal government. Federalists believed that the federal government and the executive needed to maintain their power…

A Marine battalion comprised of 365 Marines take part in the Battle of Bullrun. On May 15, 1862, the first Navy issued Congressional Medal Of Honor is awarded to Marine Cpl. John F. Mackie for his acts on the attack of Fort Darlings. The Emancipation Proclamation is signed on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. Marines assault New Orleans city halls and the Battle of Gettysburg is soon to follow. The collapse of the Confederates is guaranteed and negotiations…

George Washington. In 1815 they served under Andrew Jackson in New Orleans against the British. CIVIL WAR It was not until the Civil War that there was a large number of African Americans in the military. When the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, many African Americans wanted to join the Union army. Sometime in 1862 Colonel Higginson from Massachusetts was given command of the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. They were the first United States regimen…

The American Civil War started to progress in 1861 when tension aroused from Northerners and Southerners. Many believe the war was just about slavery but it was also about states’ rights and also things such as westward expansion. Slavery was the biggest issue basically though which is why most think of the Civil War as being the war fought to end slavery in the US. Many things led up to tension boiling over in the US such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Case, and when John Brown raided…

The American Civil War began at Fort Sumter in 1861 and lasts until 1865. This war has been referred to as the first modern war in which the Union fought the Confederacy. The North went under the label of the Union while the South was the Confederacy. The president in charge during these years was Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War the economies and cultures of the North and the South differed in almost every factor. As stated by Foner “The population of the North and the loyal border slave…

what exactly was the civil war, well the Civil War was was a civil war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. Evidence that proves my case is, “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, will little note, nor longer remember what we say here, but it can never…

There is a law in physics that seems to apply to history as well “to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This was the case with the period surrounding the civil war, a period characterized by revolutions, social, physical, and political. The pure scale of the actions and reactions in this period were what made it so revolutionary. The secession of the southern states was a revolution or against the Union, the reaction to which was the Civil War and the 13th, 14th, and 15th…

Manifest Destiny is a term used to describe the attitude that established during the 19th century with the American expansion. This attitude affirmed that the United States could not only expand from east to west coast but that in fact, it was destined to stretch and gain more territory. However, the land expansion gave a new pride to the ideas about racial superiority and the US being on top and better than anyone else. Manifest Destiny was significant to the development of the United States as…