The American Civil War: A Short Story

And in the first chapter, “The Things They Carried,” O’ Brien describes some of the actions following the death. “After the chopper took Lavender away, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross led his men into the village of Than Khe. They burned everything. They shot chickens and dogs, they trashed the village well, they called in artillery and watched the wreckage . . .” (15) As soon as Lavender falls, they all seem to go berserk.

In document 5 it says “Free Speech, Free Homes, Free Territory”. This is saying that everyone should be free therefore slavery should be abolished. This scared the south because with him as president they believed that he would try to abolish slavery now that he had the power to. Since the South didn’t want to lose slavery they left the union.

He jumped from the high booth, falling into the audience and breaking his left ankle. “Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!” John Wilkes said as he ran.

Although the cousin was prejudiced against the newly liberated Americans, Flora’s cousin does make an accurate observation of Flora Macdonald’s treatment in America. No one should be forced to watch their house, with all their belongs burn and then have no where to go. As the cousin said, however, Flora Macdonald responded to her oppressors in the same manner she responded to all misfortune, bravely and spiritedly. Flora Macdonald by this time, as a grandmother was fifty-seven years old, which in the 1770’s is very

However, her son and son’s wife treat her indifferent throughout the narration “Bailey didn’t look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children’s mother, a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a

Dew uses letters and speeches of the secession commissioners to assess their effect on sparkling resent and bitter emotions by the south to foster the secession movement. Dew’s central thesis is that the secessionist movement was largely motivated by racial inequality and the need to keep that as the status quo. Dew writes that a lot of the secession leaders used that as a reason for wanting the secession. He writes that, “Alabama's Leroy Pope Walker summarized that Republican rule would cost southerners first, ‘our property,’ ‘then our liberties,’ and finally ‘the sacred purity of our daughters’ (Dew, 80).

Verdict of the Trial of Genghis Khan. After the trial had taken place, I decided that Genghis Khan and the Mongols were uncivilized. During the time of the trial I learned much more of the brutality that had taken place during his reign. The barbaric attitudes and actions of himself and his followers is what led to him being found guilty of being uncivilized.

(Lunardi 34). Alice’s rally took place in Independence Square, where it had been dedicated to the founding fathers. The Independence rally attracted two thousand people more than ever hearing about woman suffrage in Philadelphia. Alice went back home, but Christabel persuades her to stay, but she denied the invitation. With Burns back in the US, Paul’s thesis finally became her

No one wanted to touch the book because they feared being sued by the Meat Industry. Finally Doubleday said they would publish it but they had to verify the extreme conditions Sinclair had written about. Even President Theodore Roosevelt, after reading the newspaper version of The Jungle, contacted Doubleday and chastised them for considering publishing such a thing. It wasn 't long after though that Roosevelt conducted his own investigation and found everything Sinclair had written about was steeped in truth. Not long after Congress passed the first laws regulating the industry in hopes it could protect people from unsanitary handling of food.

He supported a petition written by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society that acknowledged the Atlantic Slave Trade and slavery as “immoral”. James Madison formed committees to decide the elimination of slavery, which inspired representatives of the House to express how they felt. James Jackson strongly supported slavery and used the bible to justify it. He believed the success of the South depended on it. People began to fear slave uprisings.

"Sam" still says that he loved her. Janelle Brown shares that her first reaction was to "put on armor and go to war." Janelle is in tears talking about what has happened to their family. Meri will even be asked if she has told them everything, but of course they don 't share her answer to this part of it. Meri Brown will be revealing a lot in this upcoming episode.

His tried to pass the Alabama Platform. The platform would let slave owners take their property into territories, it would make Congress protect slave owners rights everywhere, and recognize that the Democratic Part could only elect pro-slavery candidates to national office. But the Democratic Party declined it twice, once in 1848, and another time in

Xander had a great start to his time at HHS, but over the last few weeks he has done very little in class, been very disruptive, and has to be reminded most days on what the expectations are at the beginning of class (seated with something to write with and something to write on). He has not completed the writing reflection that went with his presentation on The Crusades. The window for turning in the late work just closed. He was

Very soon after Lincoln died, and his Vice President Andrew Johnson was placed into presidency. The summer of 1865, Johnson focused on another plan for reconstruction without help and opinions from Congress. When Johnson invited people to read his course of action for reconstruction, he was the laugh of the South, and many state governments began to evade the laws. Thus, created Black Codes, which gave White Southerner 's supremacy to newly freed slaves.

After Abraham Lincoln was elected as President of the United States, the South became very concerned that the end of life as they knew it was near, (Shultz, n.d.). President Lincoln was opposed to slavery and he was against the spread of it in the West. The southerners assumed that if the all the western territories remained free, the Republicans would accomplish their abolition efforts. Secession began with the states in the deep south, (Shultz, n.d.). South Carolina was the first southern state to secede from the Union and several others began to follow.