Historian Shelby Foote said‚ “Any understanding of this nation has to be based on an understanding of the Civil War”. The Civil War defined us as what we are‚ and it opened us to being what we became‚ good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century (Adams‚ 2013). It was the crossroads of our being”. Moreover‚ he stated that “basing any understanding of this nation is
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Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist who Random House Publishing Company paid to write a history of the civil war. It took him 20 years to write the 3-volume novel “The Civil War: A Narrative.” Writing 500 to 600 hundred words a day and visiting battlefields as needed to make the Novel as factual as possible with all known reliable historical writings. Treating the North and South the same writing he wrote about both the east and west battles. Using the historian’s standard of evidence
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Shelby Foote Shelby Foote was a renowned historian known for his work and knowledge of the Civil War. He wrote The Civil War: A Narrative that contained three volumes and 2‚934 pages. In 1990‚ Shelby Foote stated the following: Any understanding of this nation has to be based and I mean really based‚ on an understanding of the Civil War. I believed that firmly. It defined us. The Revolution did what it did. Our involvement with the European wars‚ beginning with the First World War‚ did what it
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narrator by the name of Shelby Foote of Greenville‚ Mississippi published his first volume of a trilogy series of the history of the American Civil War. Some one thousand pages later‚ Foote shows his brilliance and quality of vision through the history of a nation in pure shambles‚ and on the break of certain destruction‚ and elimination from the face of the earth. Written in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ Foote a native southerner like any other published author faced criticism and critique of his work‚ especially
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Civil War HIS/115 July 24‚ 2011 Civil War 1787 – Northwest Ordinance * Included provisions that outlawed slavery throughout the territory by congress * Created social and economic tension between the North and the South Aug 1846 – Wilmot Proviso * Proviso to prevent the introduction of slavery and all African Americans in any territory acquired from Mexico * Considered to be one of the first actions/events to lead to secession and the Civil War 1846 – The Mexican War
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Civil War Paper Darrell Jones HIS/110 August 22‚ 2012 Adolph Woodard Civil War Paper The Civil War was fought between Americans from the North and the South. Many factors led to the eventual conflict‚ but none was more important than the issue of slavery. While Northerners felt slavery was essentially against what America stood for‚ Southerners depended on slavery to maintain their economy. The conflict resulted in the South wanting to secede from the Union and exist as a collection of Confederate
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The Civil War is a dark mark on America’s History‚ that helped define who we are today. Brothers fighting brothers‚ fathers fighting sons‚ and families devastated over a fear of change and compromise. Change‚ compromise‚ and leadership are all needed for a nation to succeed‚ but is bloodshed necessary to achieve success. Our land is stained with fathers and sons who believed that bloodshed was necessary to achieve greatness. The Civil War is a blemish on the history of the United States of America
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the Act for twenty-five more years. Soon to be heard before the United States Supreme Court‚ is the court case Shelby County‚ Alabama v. Holder‚ Attorney General‚ et al. Shelby County argues that with an African American president elected twice‚ the VRA of 1965 has outlived its necessity. However‚ the tactics used to discriminate racially against the African American vote and the civil rights of United States citizens warranted this intrusion which is the purpose of the federal government. The entanglement
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The American Civil war was a war fought from 1861 to 1865‚ this war was a result of the slave free states in the north wanting the government to abolish slavery. The south was not very happy with the idea of slavery ending. To stop the union‚ and keep slavery the south fought for slavery‚ and the north fought to end it. This paper will describe the Civil war and cover details over the bloodiest war in U.S history that lasted 4 years. During the time of the civil war there were 34 states. The southern
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The American Civil War almost tore early America and its population apart. Still today people debate weather slavery was the primary cause for the war. In this paper I will explain why I believe slavery was not the primary cause of the American Civil War. Also I will point out many other factors that may have played a bigger role in the cause of the Civil War. Southern states believed STRONGLY in states’ rights. States’ rights are the belief that one should be loyal to their state instead of the
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