Top Five Causes of the Civil War
Tuesday January 13, 2009
What actually caused the American Civil War? Some people simplistically answer that it was a fight against slavery. While slavery did have an important part to play in the lead up to the Civil War, there were other causes that fed the fight between North and South that finally erupted into secession and Civil War with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Here are the top five causes of the Civil War.
League of Nations Becomes Reality
Saturday January 10, 2009
On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations that resulted from
World War I officially came into effect. It was ratified by forty-two nations. The League was a dream of
Woodrow Wilson. However, the United States never ratified the treaty ending World War I and never joined the League of Nations. The League was eventually replaced by the United Nations at the end of
World War II. Even today there are still people who do not believe we should have joined the UN.
Wednesday January 7, 2009
In this day and age, greater than 60% of the vote for a president would be considered a landslide. I wonder what we would have thought about our first president. January 7, 1789, was a significant day in U.S. history.
George Washington was unanimously elected as the first president of the United States. Talk about high approval ratings!
Tuesday January 6, 2009
January 6, 1919, marks the death of
Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt first became president after the assassination of
William McKinley in 1901. He also received a Nobel Prize for mediating peace between Russia and Japan.