The document and cartoon closely relate to each other as a secret love affair between government and society. The desperate urge to voice out ones opinion was critical during this time period. Two very well known men were in the limelight of it all and their decisions caused a change of heart in others while making other questions what side they stood on. Alexander Hamilton Stephens was the vice president of the Confederate States of America when the Civil War took place. Being recognized as a “career politician, he served in both houses of the Georgia legislature before taking home the prize of winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1843”. Stephens was later elected to the Confederate Congress and was elected as the vice president of the Confederate States of America. He then gave himself pride and glory on his “Cornerstone Speech,” in which he declared, “The new government was founded on the idea that “blacks were inferior to whites”. Stating that African slaves were the main cause of secession, and attacking the Confederate Constitution to silence their voices on having African slaves become a part of society. The speech goes in depth to explain what the primary differences were between the constitutions of the Confederacy and that of the United States, it basically implied that it …show more content…
The war of 1861 continued for almost four years and with this war, the changes were very drastic in all aspects. “At the beginning of the war, the 11 Confederate States had a total population of about 9 million, of whom some 3.5 million were slaves; the 23 states remaining in the Union had a population of about 23 million.” The pros and cons of this war was overwhelming, the industrial and naval was most strong in the Union states, using these resources as an advantage and harming the ports of the south, meaning they lacked and were powerless in that