The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. The North and South were fighting to see how the United States was going to be ruled. Robert E. Lee, had been the Confederate General for the South. …show more content…
Lincoln started off on the bottom and climbed his way to the top. In 1860, Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States. He was never really a huge people person until he got the attention of many with his very well known, two minute speech in the Gettysburg Address. He tried to get the North to agree on the “new birth of freedom”. After his term was up, he ran again for President, thinking he would lose, he won. He wanted to treat everyone equal so he put his best foot forward and sacrificed lives to end slavery …show more content…
One of the biggest inventions during the beginning of the realism time period was explosive dynamite (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). A huge invention during this time period was the famous soft drink, Coca Cola. Referring to an article on the website livescience, it is posted that “Coca-Cola was first created in 1886 by Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton” the article later goes on to explain “Until 1903, the world-famous soft drink contained a significant dose of cocaine” (Palermo). If cocaine was in soft drinks now, it would be insane. Yet, back then, cocaine was not declared illegal in the United States until 1914, which happens to be a few years after the time period of realism (Palermo). The typewriter was invented in this time period in 1868 by Christopher Scholes. This was very beneficial for this time, since this was the latest technological advance for writing