“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Slavery and American Values
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the ...
A Book Review on Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, by James M. McPherson, is a novel that is a compilation of seven separate essays created from papers and lectures that McPherson fabricated...
A Detailed Description of the Battle of Gettysburg
Introduction The Battle of Gettysburg, involving the Confederate and Union forces, and fought from the 1st to the 3rd of July 1863, is considered to be, by far, the most crucial and signific...
Decades of growing political tension around the issue of slavery between North and South culminated in the form of Civil War on April 12, 1861 when Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort S...
Abigail Adams Letter to John Quincy Adams
In a letter written in 1780 for her son, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams attempts to convince her son that he should travel with his father to France after making a decision that he didn’t...
About the Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from July 1 to July 3 in 1863 and is considered the most important battle of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellors...
About the Emancipation Proclamation
The issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation was largely influenced by Abraham Lincoln’s negative opinion of slavery, however he was also under pressure from his peers and the slave owners...
Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation
Slavery was brought to the United States in the year 1619. When twenty African slaves boarded a Dutch ship, sailed across the Atlantic and eventually made landfall in Jamestown Virginia. Desp...
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
I argue that Lincoln performed everything in his power and to the best of his abilities, to abolish slavery and redirect the nation’s opinion of it. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth Presid...
Abraham Lincoln Civil War and Emancipation
I chose this event since this time in history was a turning point in America. Prior to President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, slavery was a hug...