The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War, in early April, 1861. It took placed at Fort Sumter in South Carolina where the Confederate forces attacked a Union base. The Battles of Marne and the Somme are both infamous battles of World War One, renowned for widespread death and bloodshed.

Sherman’s March to the Sea was a Union military campaign of the Civil War. Union troops, led by William Tecumseh Sherman, marched from Atlanta to Savannah, in Georgia, attacking civilian property, farmland, Confederate infrastructure, and supply lines. It is considered an important campaign in the history of the Civil War and in the history of military campaigns in general as an early example of a scorched-earth policy of warfare.

At the outbreak of Civil War, the industrial economy of the North was far more developed than the economy of the South, which was still a largely agrarian or plantation-based economy. The population of the North was much higher than the population of the South, and therefore the North had greater political influence. It is actually not true that the majority of people in the South owned slaves; it was a very small minority, but a prominent minority.

The Civil War was roughly divided evenly into sides of the North and the South, so any of these states that are Southern states would be Confederate states. This includes Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia. Not listed but also Confederate states during the Civil War were Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Ohio would have been a Union state during the Civil War.

The Second Great Awakening was a revival of Protestant Christianity in the 1790s and early nineteenth century. It was particularly prominent in the formerly Puritan Northeast. The Second Great Awakening was a social movement that involved a return to religious teachings and guidance on Protestant way of life.

Sherman’s March to the Sea is a famous and important military campaign that took place during the Civil War. Sherman marched his Union army from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia in a little over a month, destroying vital Confederate infrastructure and supply lines. The troops also destroyed farmland and civilian property.

Shaka, who ruled the Zulu Kingdom from 1816-1828, completely transformed the culture of his people and made the Zulus a formidable foe to British Colonists in South Africa. With an increasing encroachment by both British and Dutch descended white Africans, the Zulus began a campaign against the forces of European nations. Shaka was above all a warrior king, who reorganized his entire society around new regiments of soldiers, and made all aspects of Zulu life serve his military.

The voortrekkers were descendants of the intial Dutch settlers from the Cape Colony. When British colonization of South Africa began in the 1830s, the voortrekkers moved inland to take the inland agricultural areas. In doing this, they displaced many native Africans, often with the use of considerable force.

During the Atlantic slave trade, most African slaves were sent to either Brazil or to plantations in the Caribbean. The Portuguese did not take slaves back to Portugal but rather to their many plantations in Brazil.

Shaka the Zulu is one of the most famous and significant African rulers of the nineteenth century. He is often credited with uniting several tribes into the Zulu nation and his military prowess is revered by some historians. His rule was also one of great brutality and relatively short-lived for such a famous king. (He ruled for a little over a decade.) He continues to be influential in African culture to this day, particularly in South Africa.