#The first African-Americans to serve in Congress were from the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina. ... Revels was making history as the first African-American Senator, Joseph Hayne Rainey was making history as the first African-American Representative. ...
It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... The seven states of the lower South (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) formed themselves into the Confederate States of America. ...
Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida were all readmitted to the Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ...
Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Biography If it hadn't been for that one simple book that wasn't really a book at all, history may never have known Mary Boykin Chesnut. ... As fortune would have it however, the timing was not quite right and in the not too distant future Mary's father had heard of the possible relation between his daughter and the colonel and immediately moved her out of school to Mississippi to be with her mother (this move was common during the period due to over working of the land and the Indians of Alabama and Mississippi being moved further west). ... In that w...
It would be an understatement to say that it was a tragic event in history. ... The Succession On December 20, 1860, more than two months before Lincoln was to be inaugurated, a state-wide convention in South Carolina voted to secede from the Union; following them over the next several weeks were more than six other states to recede, including Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.7 After the state's secession, it handed down orders that all forts and facilities of the U.S. military located in and around Charleston be ceded to state confederacy control; against the ...
In January, within days of each other, Mississippi seceded from the Union, with Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas following. ... To recall briefly Richmond's history prior to the Civil War: Captain John Smith first landed here in 1607 at the falls of the James River. ... Can you tell that I've been drinking in history facts since this whole debate has started? ...
