Stephanie Trinidad

            “Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.” [1] The American Civil War was one of the greatest known wars in United States history. The fight between the Northern Union States and the Southern Confederate States that would last just over four years and would see countless battles. The Southern States wanted to secede from the Union because they wanted to expand slavery to the western states but the Northern States wanted to abolish slavery. The war was caused because of mounting tensions between the North and the South. Southern states believed that if they had the right to join the Union than they had the right to withdraw and so eleven states seceded from the Unio...

            At the end of the First World War the roles of women had greatly changed as demonstrated by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge’s book “The Long Week-End.” No longer confined to being a homemaker women entered the workforce in Great Britain to help out during the war and once the war was over many hoped to continue working. The current state of affairs for women in the Britain was that of returning to what the country was once like where women would no longer work in industry positions and go on to marry and have children. The war changed this frame of thought for women they now had freedom and independence to pursue other attributes of life that they were once told weren’t allowed for young women. The role of women in the twentieth century would change quickly but not without objections from those around them.