Category: American Civil War

The problem of suffering is so often dissected by scholars as it is the most pressing theological question of the twentieth century. Throughout history, it remains unclear why moral individuals experience unprovoked evil. Those subjected to deep suffering in history have raised this question the highest. Women, African American men, and African American women in history have been exposed to degrees of suffering unimaginable to a privileged individual today. The suffering experienced by women, African American men, and African American women led to the emergence of three branches of theology that address each’s religious needs. African Americans were another ethnicity […]

The american civil war, otherwise known as the war between the states, lasted for four (4) years. It began in 1861 and ended in 1865. This war was between the U.S and the 11 southern states that separated from america and formed the Confederate States of America. This essay will discuss the four main reasons believed to be the causes of the American Civil War. Those causes are, slavery in America in 1619, John Brown’s raid on Harper Ferry on October 16th, 1859, The Westward Expansion of 1803 and The attack on Fort Sumter on April 12th, 1861. Given the […]

Document A: It caused thousands of northerners to become abolitionists. Document B: John Brown lead a small group to attack a building containing weapons on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, as an attempt to start an armed slave uprising and to demolish the establishment of slavery.Document C: The United States Supreme Court decides to declare for slave owners to take their slaves into Western territories, contradict the principle of popular sovereignty and harshly sabatoging the stand of the new Republican Party.Document D: An attempt made by armed abolitionist John Brown to introduce an armed slave strike in 1859 by taking over a […]

According to the American Yawp, “The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths…” (American Yawp) This war erupted for various reasons, some of which included sectional splits, the election of 1860, and also the ambiguity of the constitution. Tying all of these factors together, the underlying cause of the civil war in 1861 was slavery.    For many years, the tension between southerners and northerners only grew despite all of the compromises and so there was a great sectional divide between most of the south who were pro-slavery and the abolitionist of the north. […]

A “flintlock” refers to any device thatuses the flintlock mechanism and it may refer to the lock mechanism itself. Thefirst true flintlock mechanism was introduced in the seventeenth century;however, using flint against steel to create a spark of gunfire has been seenas early as the sixteenth century. The flintlock mechanism was a substantialimprovement compared to its predecessors such as the doglock, matchlock, andwheellock mechanisms. The flintlock was used from the sixteenth to theeighteenth century and was followed by the percussion cap and cartridge basedmechanisms in the nineteenth century. The flintlock mechanism has been used indevices such as pistols, muskets, rifles, […]

Machine guns weren’t exactly new in WW1. Machine guns, first known as Gatling guns, were first used in the American Civil War. These guns, invented in 1862, were the first fast firing guns but depended on the operator to make it fire quickly. In 1884 Hiram Maxim improved on the idea of the machine gun. Thinking he had created the new weapon of war, he took it to British leaders. However, they turned him down thinking machine guns did not belong in war. Maxim, not discouraged, went to German leaders. By the time the war had started Germany had produced […]

Puerto Ricois an island located in the Caribbean Sea in the West Indies. It is anincorporated territory of the United States of America. The first white man toset foot on the island was the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus, whodeclared the name of the island to be San Juan. However, when gold wasdiscovered in the river, the name of the island changed to Puerto Rico, Spanishfor rich port.’ Puerto Rico was colonized by the Spanish until 1898, when it came under the dominion of theUnited States. However, even in this state, it is still largely aself-governing state. The island came under […]

The entire protestant reformation began with the work of Martin Luther, a German monk who had questions about the Roman Catholic Church. He asked a priest about his problems and the priest told him to look for the answer within the bible. Martin Luther looked in the bible and realized all the troubles that were going on in the Church. Knowing its problems Luther nailed a document with the problems entitled the 95 Theses. His document started the whole protestant reformation. There were many people who contributed to the reformation.John Calvin was one of these contributors. Calvin was raised as […]

Accordingto the American Yawp, “The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history,resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths…” this war erupted for variousreasons, some of which included sectional splits, the election of 1860, andalso the ambiguity of the constitution. Tying all of these factors together, theunderlying cause of the civil war in 1861 was slavery.    For many years, the tension betweensoutherners and northerners only grew despite all of the compromises and sothere was a great sectional divide between most of the south who were pro-slavery and the abolitionist of the north. The two parties; Democratic and republicansought to have their […]

Medicine is so important in our life just like water andoxygen. According to dictionary.com medicine is defined as ” any substance orsubstances used in the treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy”. This paperis about my research and findings about all the different kinds of medicine andtreatment given to the soldiers during the American civil war. The mainobjective about this research paper is to compare the difference between thetreatment and medicine during the American civil war and how much it has changedfrom then. By the end of this research my aim is to accomplish a good understandingof how and what the […]