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Battle of Bull Run

Many pressured President Lincoln to bring a quick end to the rebellion of the Southern states. Lincoln pressed for action despite his hesitancy that his troops were not trained well. General Irvin McDowell proposed a plan that he would march his army of 35,000 around Washington and attack the Confederates defending the Confederate capital, Richmond. Despite the disadvantaged the North almost won on that day; however, it was a decisive Southern victory. On July 21, the Union troops charged across the stream in front of the Confederates and left them very confused. However, the Confederates finally decided to take charge in the afternoon once the blood curtailing Rebel Yell was used. As the Union line began to melt away the retreat transformed into mindless rout as the Northern troops rushed back to Washington and leaving behind their equipment along the way.

The end of the war showed that both the Union and the Confederacy were unprepared. It foreshadowed the switching of Union commanders throughout the Civil War. The First Battle of Bull Run cost about 3,000 union casualties and cost the Confederates about 1750 casualties. On the Confederate side, accusations took place between Johnston and President Jefferson Davis over who was to blame for the failure to pursue and crush the enemy after the battle. For the Union, Lincoln removed McDowell from command and replaced him with George B. McClellan, who would restrain and reorganize Union troops defending Washington. They were then known as the Army of the Potomac once he trained them into a disciplined fighting force.

General Irvin McDowell

Journey Through Slavery Pt 3

The enlightenment let people believe that their could be progress in the world and could be improved and perfected. Towards the end of the revolution there was a contradiction due to the fact that slavery began after people thought the idea of liberty would be perfected. In order for the slaves to begin the Abolition Movement they suffered during the 19th century. I believe that Allen and the organization were a great help, which led to the movement. They helped in gathering men to attend a conference, which was due to the fact that the slaves were being oppressed.

It was unfair that the Americans were seeing the slaves as lower and they were not equal to them. However, the white men were contradicting themselves because according the constitution they believed that "all men were created equal", but they believed that it only applied to the white men.

Because there was people like Nat Turner and Richard Allen that gave hope to the slaves because they knew they still had a chance. Thomas Jefferson was one of the people who believed that the blacks and the whites could never be equal.


The cotton gin being invented only allowed for the demand of more slaves because the slave owners needed more and more slaves to work the machines. One of the consequences was that it made slavery expand westward and the whites were in more need of more slaves. In some ways it was a good thing that the nation was growing as a whole but it affected the Indians and the slaves greatly. The main effect was that it was making slavery more more of a demand than before, which is why I do not agree with the idea. By the beginning year of 1808 America could not attain any new slaves that had not been there before that year. However, it was very bad because instead of weakening the idea of slavery it only grew stronger.

PRIMARY SOURCE:
Letter from Eli Whitney to father about his invention, the Cotton Gin.
http://www.teachingushistory.org/ttrove/Whitney11Sept1793.htm

Journey Through Slavery Pt 4

I believe with what David Walker believed that they had a right to live in America more than the whites because they worked hard to keep their nation alive. I also believe with him that the American were hypocrites with their ideas and they should abolish slavery. However, he wanted a rebellion and I would disagree with going that way.William Lloyd Garrison was brave for having his newspaper, the Liberator, and speaking of the sins of slavery. other abolitionist were brave as well to continue with their "moral suasion" in order for the southerns to be convinced of the bad slave holding had.

 Fanny Kemble, the wife of Pierce Butler went into the island thinking that the slaves were being well taken care of. However, as she built up close relationships with the women she realized that the women had many miscarriages and many children had died. Over the time many women became sick due to chronic malaria sickening the mothers and children. It was horrible that have the children died before the age of sick. Slavery had a big impact on children because they were raised by the black slaves and befriended the black children

In Butler island, slavery had already lasted as long as the nation itself and it only made the family wealthier. In the year 1830, Pierce Butler was waiting to inherit, never saw plantation major butler was a signer of the constitution and helped write with the clause for the fugitive slave law. The majority of the men loyal to slavery were dominating in the courts, they helped prevent petitions from being read. At this time, there was about 2 million slaves because of the economic power it had in the South.



75 percent whites did not own slaves .
John c Calhoun,senator
Northerners depended on slavery
Andrew Jackson- indians were forced out of their land because of westward expansion which only demanded for more cotton and more slaves
Masters had power and law and Harriet Jacobs was determined to escape.
If slaves escaped the whites lost money and were therefore hunted by slave catchers
Free African Americans were a threat to slavery because they denounced racial bondage.

PRIMARY SOURCE:
Journal Entry from Fanny Butler
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2922.html