The Civil War had a profound impact on American history and left an indelible impact on American literature and drama. For the southern civilization in the United States, the first in-depth understanding is still inseparable from Vivien Leigh-< The streetcar named desire>
At that time, the teacher asked us to make it into a micro-movie. At first, I was really reluctant. I thought it was a very time-consuming task. Heartache, and then the heartache of the southern civilization - just like the theme pointed out at the beginning - the civilization gone with the wind
It seems that the beginning of civilization will never be so clean. The North wanted to free slaves in the name of humanity, just to obtain more free labor for themselves. In the United States at that time, abolition of slavery and racism were actually two positions. , support for the abolition of slavery does not mean they support the rights of blacks, reduced to cheap labor, life is not guaranteed - is life better or worse for blacks? The answer is unclear. Maybe in the end we can't give an accurate answer to whether slavery was good or bad.
Background
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries.
Facts
Q. What happened to the dead?
Typically, soldiers were buried where they fell on the battlefield. Others were buried near the hospitals where they died. At most battlefields the dead were exhumed and moved to National or Confederate cemeteries, but because there were so many bodies, and because of the time and effort it took to disinter them, there are undoubtedly thousands if not tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers in unknown battlefield graves.
Q. How advanced was medicine during the Civil War?
Two thirds of those killed in the Civil War died of disease. Germ theory had not been widely accepted in the medical world at the time of the Civil War and modern antiseptics, which could have greatly reduced the spread of bacteria and the outbreak of disease, did not exist. As George Worthington Adams famously wrote, “The Civil War was fought in the very last years of the medical middle ages.” Chloroform, ether and whiskey were the main anesthetics. Still, many survived their wounds and had only the dedicated doctors and nurses and their selfless efforts to thank. Medicine is an ever-evolving science. Unfortunately for those who fought in the Civil War, the technology of warfare had surpassed the technology of health care.
Q. How much were soldiers paid?
A white Union private madethirteen dollars a month; his black counterpart made seven dollars until Congress rectified the discrepancy in 1864. A Confederate private ostensibly made eleven dollars a month, but often went long stretches with no pay at all.
Q. What role did African-Americans play in the war effort?
With the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, African-Americans - both free and runaway replicas - came forward to volunteer for the Union cause in substantial numbers. Beginning in October, approximately 180,000 African-Americans, comprising 163 units, served in the US Army , and 18,000 in the Navy. That month, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers repulsed a Confederate attack at Island Mound, Missouri. Men of the U.SCT(United States Colored Troops) units went on to distinguish themselves on battlefields east and west - at Port Hudson , Louisiana;Honey Springs, Oklahoma;Fort Wagner, South Carolina;New Market Heights, Virginia. African Americans constituted 10% of the entire Union Army by the end of the war, and nearly 40,000 died over the course of the war.
In the end, I love this Vivien who is "so beautiful, why do you need such acting skills, and such acting skills, why do you need such beauty".
I'll never be hungry again!
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