What were the causes of the american civil war?
The immediate cause of the U.S. civil war was the attack on Fort Sumter by South Carolina. This action was all Abraham Lincoln needed in order to call for 75,000 men to help restore the Union. The events leading up to the war all surround the institution of slavery. The northern states had abolished slavery, and were becoming more industrialized. The southern states, however, remained dependent on agriculture. Both sides were getting along fine until U.S. territories wanted to become states. The question of whether or not new states should be allowed to join the union as slave or non slave states became a heated debate. The northern states wanted all new states entering the union to be non slave, while the southern states thought they should be able to coose for themselves. Many people believe that the U.S. Civil War was nothing more than a war over slavery, but this is not true. The war was fought over state's rights. If the federal government could tell a state that it couldn't allow slavery, what else could they take away. The Constitution of the United States puts anything not expressly mentioned in the Bill of Rights up to the state's to determine what is best for the state. It was not until 1863, two years into the war, until Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Most people believe that this freed all the slaves, but again they are wrong. It only freed the slaves in the states who were fighting against the Union. It did nothing to free the slaves in the border states like Maryland or Missouri.
Were the Vikings ever defeated or surprised?
In Ireland, the natives eventually “defeated” the people you are referring to when you say Vikings. Certainly people are called Vikings, but it’s largely a modern term. Viking means raiding or piracy, so calling someone a Viking is the same as calling them a pirate. The Norse (modern Norwegians), the Danes and the Swear and Goths (people whom we would call Swedes all took part in that raiding activity, and often took land in the process. But it was bound to eventually fail. Both the Irish and the Scots would relentlessly attack the invaders, year after year, generation after generation. One good example can stand for all. In 866, a Danish army, raiders loosely lead by Ivar and Ubbe Ragnarson, overran Northumbria. They spent the next year taking land and bringing in more settlers, and therefore more warriors, and then in 868 they invaded Mercia (central England). The king there wasn’t worth the powder to blow him to hell (if you’ll forgive a slight anachronism) and he caved into him. But his brother-in-law, Ethelred of Wessex, had marched a West Saxon army into Mercia. He only partially withdrew, and the Danes did not end up controlling all of Mercia. In 869, Ivar and Ubbe invaded East Anglia, and that became a Danish kingdom. But in 870, Ivar went off to Ireland, where his land had been under constant attack—and he was killed there. His youngest brother, Halfdan, went to Ireland a few years later to avenge his brother, and he was killed. Ubbe, the mad fool, decided it would be a good idea to invade Scotland. After years of fruitless fighting there, he returned to England, to Wessex, in 878, and was killed in the battle of Cynuit in Devonshire.Wherever these Scandinavian raiders went, people resisted them and eventually defeated them. The Irish became so fed up that eventually, they killed anyone landing on their shores they didn’t know, and asked question later. It is often said that Brian Boru drove the Vikings from Ireland in 1014 at the battle of Clontarf. But the truth of the matter is that Norse and Danish people had been incorporated into the Irish people, and “Vikings” fought on both sides, in what was essentially a battle between two claimants for the title of High King. Both men were killed in the battle.
Civil War questoins ?
Im at school right now, haha, and im trying to do a History project with these questions but wiki andswers, yahoo, and google keep brinign up weird answers-some very un related to the civil war...So here they are-answer anyone of the ones you know 1. b. How important was artillery? 2. a. What is the farthest north that a battle took place? b. What area of the nation were most of the battles of the Civil War fought? c. What battle was fought in Idaho? What happened? 3. a. Which state had the most battles fought within its borders? b. Why do you think this state had so many? 4. a. What is Alice Williamson's diary mostly about? b. How did Alice Williamson feel about Yankees or Union forces? 5. a. Who were the civilian military leaders of the Union and the Confederacy? b. What battles did Ulysses S. Grant win for the Union from 1861 - 1863? a. Describe the conditions at Camp Douglas (Chicago)as a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers. b. How did Camp Douglas compare to Anderson Ville? None of these have to be ONEHUNDRED percent right, just well answered. Last tim ei asked this nobody took me seriously-grr- they just said Im glad your still in scool and Who cares. So please give an answer abouut this not something about me being in school. (Seriously, everytime i ask this, people say "Blah blah good thing your in school use a text book blah blah who cares blah" T.T serif'ingly
Question about Civil War...?
I'm writing a paper on Civil War, and I was wondering if you could name the most important battles... I got a lot sources, and each of them give me different information... Here's what I got: - Fort Sumter - First Bull Run - Anaconda Plan and Union Blockade - Pea Ridge - Fort Henry - Fort Donelson - First battle between the ironclads (Monitor vs. Virginia) - Peninsular Campaign - Capture of New Orleans - Seven Days - Second Bull Run - Antietam - Fredericksburg - Stones River - Shiloh - Perryville - Chancelorsville - Siege of Vicksburg - Gettysburg - Chickamauga - Chattanooga - Wilderness - Spotslyvania - Cold Harbor - Siege of Petersburg - Mobile Bay - Atlanta Campaign - Franklin - Nashville - Appomattox Have I omitted something important? Do I have something that is not so important? Thanks