Confederate States of America

Why Was Gettysburg Considered a Turning Point in the Civil War? Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in American history. A total of over 46,000 soldiers were lost in this battle. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had beaten a Union force twice the size of his at the Battle of Chancellorsville earlier that year in the spring of 1863. But soon after this battle, he went off the radar. This was until rumors began to emerge that he and his army were marching into Pennsylvania. This

Civil War began when the Southern Slave States seceded from the Northern Free States due to uncompromising polarity and formed the Confederate States of America. This four year war over the power of the national government to forbid slavery in the regions that hadn’t yet become states claimed more lives than any other war in American History. In his book, What They Fought For, 1861-1865, James McPherson examines the feelings and motives of both Union and Confederate soldiers to enlist and fight in the

book also helps characters learn on how strong the Confederate Army was. Throughout Booth’s manhunt, the reader encounters many different Confederate supporters, and they discover how many people were actually loyal. As the book reads on pg. 23, “...Booth came into contact with sympathetic secret agents in Canada, New York City, Washington, D.C, Maryland, and Virginia.” Across the United States, so many people felt sympathetic towards the Confederates. It is a common misconception that the North and

settled. As desires attached, there were threats in the Southern secession more frequently. Secession- the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union What did the popular sovereignty help? Clay made a compromise that had necessities to placate Northerners and also southerners. North- provided that California be admitted to the Union as a free state South- proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law To appease both sides an establishment allowed the right to vote for or in contradiction

Lincoln’s last four months in office during the fourth year in the American Civil War (1861-1865). In the last four months in office, Lincoln contributed good for the American society, drastically ruined the human condition in terms of the unified Confederate states, and put an artistic genius at work whom realistically wants us to remember him as man less than a monument. Three years ago, in Washington D.C I was astonished seeing Abraham Lincoln sitting in his throne looking down at me as I entered his

battle of Antietam occurred on September 17, 1862 between Union Army General McClellan and Confederate States Army General Lee. While General Lee retreated back into Virginia, the Union did not consider Antietam to be a victory other than to avoid Confederates gaining access to the Nation’s capitol and northern territories. This paper poses an alternate ending to the battle at Antietam in which the Confederates defeat the Union Army. I will go into detail about intelligence that was apprehended just

During this time, the United States was facing a a tremendous division in its political campaign. The election of 1860, let Southerners and Northerners to divide like never before. The Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln as its running candidate, and the Democrats chose two running candidates; Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge. The campaign involved a lot of mudslinging against each other, Lincoln won by about 40% but not one southern state, supported him; he showed compassion to the Democrats

South Carolina. The fort is in Charleston’s harbor. The fort was not even complete when war broke out. This was a big turning point for the United States of America. It separated the north from the south and in some cases it separated families. This war would impact how the United States saw slavery. It is the most deadly war that the United States has every seen in its history.      It all began with the secession of South Carolina. After this an understanding was established

civil war also known as the war between states was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The Confederate was a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 that formed a institution of slavery. The United States thought that the southern states were wrong to leave the union and initiated a war that raged across the country for years. In 1865, the United States defeated the Confederate States and abolished slavery nationwide. During

why I believe that the Civil War was necessary. The cause of the war was the arguments between the free and slave states on whether slavery should be legal or not. The North was known as the Union, and the South was known as the Confederacy. Even though the Constitution states that all men are created equal, slaves were considered property rather than people to the Confederates. The Civil War lasted for four years