Darren Fontanilla
Educator Riffel
History 111
23 May 2017
The American Civil War
The Civil War was the main focus in America's history. The Civil War determined on what kind of nation it will advance toward, but the American Revolution made the United States. Would the United States continue existing as the greatest slaveholding country on the planet, in spite of the way that this nation, thought about a declaration that all men were made with an equal fitting to flexibility? This was a request that was left unsolved after the change. The differences between the free and slave states over the liveliness of national government to forbid bondage in the areas that had not yet advanced toward getting to become a state is the thing that
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This was set up to allow the overall public to vote. He believed it was the perfect way to deal with the slavery. The regular war fuses purposes of intrigue and injuries of the North and South, magnificent effects and an assurance.
The North and South had their abberations and endeavoring to agree on one climb was a gigantic issue they were gone up against with. The South had another organization, no maritime compel, and no railroads. The North, in any case, had a central government, more banks, a maritime constrain with warriors, and moreover had railroads. South was better with weapons, knew the land, and besides had Robert E. Lee as their purposes of intrigue. Of course, North's burdens were that they were not arranged as well, did not want to fight, and they had political officers. In light of the central focuses and downsides of the states, it brought on many fights and contrasts, which later provoke the aftereffect of the Civil War. The north and south had
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This communicated if people should have been a slave or free state, they had the benefit to vote. An event called "Depleting Kansas" broke out, hence. This is the place a Civil War broke out; regardless, it was simply in Kansas. Congress started to verbal encounter what to do about the Kansas issue taking after the Bleeding Kansas. By then, a man named Preston Brooks hits another man named Charles Sumner with his stick diverse conditions straightforwardly before the U.S. Senate. This made numerous people assume that a war will break out soon. They thought this since they saw that not even their organization could get along. They ended up handling their issue with mercilessness, so taking all things into account, they thought the most ideal approach to save the state issues would be with
In 1865, the Confederate Armies were defeated by the Union Armies, before the civil war the country was divided North and South. Issues included taxes, states rights, and war but the biggest issue was Slavery. This was an issue for the south but had yet been banned by Abraham lincoln in 1863. Although these problems were significant Jefferson believed that in order to have a normal society you must have struggle, '' The tree of liberty must be refreshed by the blood of the patriots''. Also taxes were a problem for farmers because, farmers were payed very little money and when the Government raised the taxes it forced them to fall into debt.
The civil war was one of the biggest battles in american history. America’s worst clash of army’s,The civil war (1861-65) made the union against the confederate states. ”In the spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states’ rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War. ””In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the KANSAS-NEBRASKA Act, which essentially opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict.”
The ordinance itself was intended to speed up expansion of the states into other territories and include them all under the pre-existing government. Territories or principalities formed outside of the American government would inevitably cause discontent and division of resources. This ordinance forced any newly settled lands to become part of the country and obey the same laws. As for the restriction on slavery in the new states, it was a sorely needed refuge for those who had begun to believe that enslavement of another person was wrong. The parties in America had already formed separate opinions on the issue.
The North had many advantages. They beat the South in population they could draw soldiers from. The North had 22 million citizens where the South only had 5.5 million citizens. The North could transport supplies and people faster because of their roads, canals, and railroads. However the South disconnected from itself with barely any railroads and hard to move soldiers and goods from place to place.
The South had damaged property, loss of wealth, the loss of cotton markets, loss of fertile soil, lack of industry and railroads, and many more. One of the main problems was the loss of slave workers. The only laborers left would be indentured servants, and most of them moved to the West or to the North. This meant that the North had the ability to rebuild faster. The other main problem was the carpetbaggers.
Drew Choike Dr. Greer American History December 1, 2017 Reading response chapter #3 Many high school students are taught in their respective history classes growing up about battles, wars, and important moments in U.S. history without actually connecting these events to other happenings of relevance going on at about the same time in history around the world, making it hard for some students to think about dates and link the events together as being during the same time period. Chapter three of A Nation Among Nations by Thomas Bender entitled “Freedom in an Age of Nation Making” examines these different events around the world at about the same time as the American Civil War between the Union made up of the northern states and the Confederacy made up of the southern states.
When the north won the civil war, the knew that there was going to be some changes being made. But that doesn’t mean they were going to be all good. There were going to be people that disagree with the union. There is going to be a really bad president that's going to makes really dumb decisions like Andrew Johnson. But the reconstruction era did not go as well as planned.
Reconstruction officially began in 1865. The Civil War is believed to have come to an end in April 1865; however, it was not until the 20th of August, 1866 that President Andrew Johnson officially declared the end of the Civil War. Most people express the era as a period of putting back the broken pieces. The country was attempting to return to its footing after the Civil War. Reconstruction was not an easy task since the southerners were burning with resentment and trying to return to power within the government (Randall & Donald, 2016).
This separated the North and the South
The American Civil War changed Americans and their ideals about freedom in many ways. Northern and Southern United states began to have simmering tensions for the states’ rights versus federal authority, plus westward expansion, and slavery had huge effects on the states. An election which made anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln the president of the United States of America in 1860, caused seven of the southern states to concede from the Union to make The Confederate States Of America soon after four more joined afterwards. It changed Americans in many ways as neighbors fought each other through the 4 gruesome years of the war. Conflict between the sides were like fights between brother and brother instead with many deaths.
During the pre-civil war time period— also known as the antebellum years— America experienced a widespread transformation for the sake of its economy. With the booming belief of the Manifest Destiny, America’s constant desire for westward expansion caused disputes between the North and the South regarding the establishment of free states and slave states, which led to certain compromises such as the Missouri Compromise. After the Market Revolution, the North and South used its new gained land to create different means of economic gains; the North became industrialized through manufacturing, while the South became an agricultural industry dependent on cotton. However, as America’s boundaries expanded, tensions between the North and South grew, often leading to compromises in bloodshed. The drastic differences between the two groups eventually transformed America into a divided nation of sectionalism economically, politically, and socially.
There were many differences between the North and the South. For instance, the South were very agricultural as opposed to the North which were industrial. The South used cheap labor in the form of slaves, whereas the North had workers do their jobs in factories at a faster pace. Because of sectionalism, competition between the north and the south began to increase.
The North had an excellent Navy that had the ability to blockade things that were headed to the Southern states. The South desperately needed food, weapons, and ammunition but weren’t able to get their supplies because the North had blockades that stopped the supplies they needed. The North also had gun factories, shipyards, and coal readily available at anytime which puts them at a huge advantage over the South. They had more money and were just more advanced in their industry, which helped them win the civil war.
The Civil War allowed the United States to make the changes necessary to unify the country. In addition, it began one of the most transitional periods in the United States’ history. This period, the Reconstruction, brought about many political, social, and economic changes, which were both beneficial and disagreeable. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Panic of 1873, and the formation of the Ku Klux Klan are just a few examples of heavily impacting events for the United States. During the Reconstruction period there were numerous political transformations in the country.