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The Girl In Blue Book Report

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In the year 1861 the Civil war started. The Confederates and The Union fought, thousands of men and women died and America was torn in two.The Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi takes place in 1861 when a girl by the name of Sarah Louisa Wheelock runs away from home, disguises herself as a man and joins the Flint Union Grays, a regiment that becomes a part of the 2nd Michigan Infantry. Sarah wanted to help the Union, however women were not allowed to fight, only become nurses, so Sarah disguises herself and goes by the name Neddy Compton. Throughout the book Sarah is constantly battling with herself, trying not to be found out to be a girl until the unexpected happened. This book highlights some of the main parts of the Civil war and what it was like during that time.

Ever Since Sarah had read Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain, she swore she would never let a man control her life and to fight bravely . However when her abusive father wants to marry her off to a rich man she has no choice but to leave and run away from home. Sarah’s family worked on a farm, raised …show more content…

Sara described Washington DC as busy and divided. Trades men went to DC to sell goods and some were from the north and come were from the south. In Washington, the majority of people supported Abraham Lincoln, but others thought that his choices for this war were misguided and wrong. However, Sarah thought that Lincoln was doing his best with decision making and that slavery shouldn 't have existed. The women Sarah was “working for” revolved around slavery and Lincoln’s poor choices. It was thought that because Rose Greenhow was so angry she was aiding the south by giving them the north’s information. Sarah was to try to stop the information getting out and finally get Rose

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Rose O’Neal Greenhow (confederate spy) Rose O’Neal Greenhow is friendly with the northern politicians like the Secretary of State and the Massachusetts Senator. On July 1861, she sent reports about the Union’s plan to invade.

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Storm Clouds Rolling In by Ginny Dye In this report I will talking about Carrie Cromwell's beliefs, the love life on the Cromwell plantation, and the war and secession that has set into the southern states. The time during this was 1860-1861. Also during this time slaves were running away on the Underground Railroad.

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Not long after his father’s death and the news of war reached the Duttons plantation, Johnny, Big Missy’s only son, decided to go to war as a commander along with Kevin, Miss Lillian’s husband, who at first was reluctant to go. Not only the men showed their burning patriotism by going to war, but also the women back in the Big House who were giving their contribution for the Confederate by making uniforms and Confederate flags. As if those things weren’t enough, the Duttons were also more than willing to lend their slaves to work in the southern factories, even though many managed to run away and fought for the Union

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In many sections of the book, locations vary between Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The reason her diary was published, or the thesis, was to show that while women did play a role in the American Civil War, the duties of women were greatly limited due to societal expectations and gender bias.

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Deep in a swarm of 500,000 women, men, and children; a small huddle of girls headed by lead singer MILCK sang their song “Quiet”, loudly, for all the world to hear during the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. Their voices carried a tune of faith, hope, and power, which Jill Lapore echoed in her work “Wars Within”. Lapore’s writing is essential to providing significant insight into the election of 2017 by connecting to past historical moments which many members of James Madison’s student body can recollect and link to the severity of the election results. Lapore uses the connections between the civil war era and present day America to tie together the presence of inequality in simple historical terms. The usage of this connection allows for readers to compare cause and solution to possibly be persuaded to enact change as Fredrick Douglass did in the past.

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Sarah told her family that she would be sending most of the money she earned to them to spend for themselves, she wrote them saying “I can get all the money I want,” She would receive thirteen dollars a month plus room and board for being a private in the Union army. Finally in October the volunteers left for Washington, D.C., where Wakeman would be on guard duty at the nation’s

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Finding herself in the spotlight during a tense and bloody war, Mary Lincoln faced the unfortunate coincidence of being both southern born and the wife of a Unionist leader. “An obvious point of attack upon a First Lady with relatives fighting on the Confederate side was disloyalty. She was accused of acting as a rebel spy,” Ruth Painter describes as she further explains how the hatred and spite targeted at Mary Lincoln was reserved specifically for traitors. In addition, William Evans comments how, “the extreme elements in the South, on the other hand, hated Mrs. Lincoln because, in point of fact she was intensely loyal to her husband and to the Union cause.” Just as one feels the effects of a physical wound, so was Mary Lincoln seared by

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Harriet Jacobs lived a life that was voluntarily significant to the Civil War. Harriet experienced a very hard life starting in 1813. In this paper, I will be describing Harriet Jacobs’ life and the significance she had in the Civil War. I will be discussing a very strong woman that made a very big impact on this world. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery on February 11th, 1813.

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In this book we can see how the author depict Southern culture in terms of

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Sarah has an inkling to go north, become a Quaker, and fight for her freedom and the freedom of Handful and other

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The principal claim in “The American Negro in the World War” 1919, is that a colored woman that worked during war time had a lower wage than a man doing the same work and considerable fraction below that of a white woman in the same service, also, they were forced to work in the most unsafe posts but also in the most delicate jobs as well (Doc 4). The author’s purpose was to express to the government how the citizens of the United States are being deprived of their rights, especially the colored men and women during time of war. In 1920 a union called, The American Civil Liberties Union was formed to change the unfairness and to better the American society by protecting the independent rights and liberties that the laws and Constitution of the United States promises everyone. In the photograph “An Appliance Showroom in Louisville, Kentucky” in 1920, it shows woman working in an appliance showroom (Doc 5). The purpose of this photograph was to show how women got the opportunity to work in stores and almost anywhere they desired and it began to change the American society and the social norm of woman just saying at home and only being good to make babies.

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The girl in blue, was born on February 8, 1925. The baby's mother "Johanna" named the baby Kimberly Flores. Kimberly's mother and father "Fernando" worked all day & night, but since Kimberly was a newborn baby her mother Johanna stopped working for a couple months. When Johanna continued to work she hired a babysitter for Kimberly. Kimberly, never liked the idea of having a babysitter.

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Her generation that while the characters are fictional there were individuals like St. Clare and Shelby in real life that shook the constraints of skin color and treated them as people. That just because their skin was black didn't mean that they were any different than a white person, they could think, they could feel, and most importantly they could believe. That it would get everyone to think about slavery and what it meant for all parties involved and it did ultimately selling over 300,000 copies in the U.S. and 1 million in Great Britain and being claimed to have aided in the repeal of slavery. For our generation, this book allows us to see into the mindset of the country as individuals like Stowe get drowned out in the sea of slave owners and we can tend to forget that there were kind

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Literature is often credited with the ability to enhance one’s understanding of history by providing a view of a former conflict. In doing so, the reader is able to gain both an emotional and logistical understanding of a historically significant event. Additionally, literature provides context that can help the reader develop a deeper understanding of the political climate of a time period. Within the text of The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead’s, the use of literary elements such as imagery, metaphor, and paradox amplifies the reader’s understanding of early 19th century slavery and its role in the South of the United States of America. Throughout the novel, Whitehead utilizes a girl named Cora to navigate the political and personal consequences of escaping slavery, the Underground Railroad, and her transition

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The Civil War was a unique and significant event in American history. According to many historians, the war was ultimately the final resolution of contradictions in the vision of America when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. It stated that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights”. The war’s origins lay in slavery, which began in North America in the early 1600s and grew rapidly in the South, which caused the southern economy as a whole depended on heavily on slave labor leading up to the Civil War. Slavery, the splitting of which state would be slave or free, and Abraham Lincoln played a major role that was responsible for the nature of the war than any other individual.

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