Why Was The American Civil War Important

Geneveve Addaewusu

04/01/2016

Professor Doyle

Core

Civil War The American Civil War, was of great importance not only in American history but in the history of the whole world.. The reunion of the United States of America, proves that a just cause will eventually prevail the evil cause, no matter how strong the evil cause seems to be. The triumph of the North, besides its superior naval forces, industrial and financial resources, was due in part to the statesmanship of Lincoln, who by 1864 had become a masterful war leader, to the pervading bravery of Federal soldiers, and to the increasing skill of their officers. The victory can also be due to participation of tens of thousands of black Americans, many of whom devoted their lives

Northerners who opposed slavery didn't want any new slave states, slave owners in the south wanted all new states to be slave states because plantation life in the South was so hard, they needed more people to work on it for free, which were the slaves. Slaves worked on plantations and got nothing in return, This made the slave owners get more profit from it because they’re not paying people to work on the plantation but rather earning from it. According to pbs.org, “Many Northern freeman have been enslaved, in some cases under color of law. Oct, 26, 1836, a man named Frank, who was born in PA.., and lived free in Ohio, was hurried into slavery by an Ohio Justice of the peace.” This quote shows that, A Northern free man was set up by an Ohio Justice of the peace to get rushed into slavery, This is because he stated that he was free from slavery and they didn’t want that to happen. This was caution to black people who were free to start getting ready to go back to the South and for policemen to start catching all the free slave men. During the Civil Rights Movement, life for African Americans were cruel and dehumanizing. They were treated differently than others; Even when slavery ended. What The Declaration of Independence states, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” has been unclear to

Effects such as the literacy test didn’t give African Americans and their constitutionally guaranteed right to both register to vote and vote. African Americans were denied because only white men had the constitutional right to vote because blacks weren’t considered Americans and in a way they were also seen as less of humans. The Jim crow laws also denied black to vote. Jim Crow laws segregated railways and streetcars, public waiting rooms, restaurants, boarding houses, theaters, public parks, libraries and cemeteries. Separate schools, hospitals and other public institutions, generally of inferior quality, were designated for blacks. The laws also required blacks to use separate phone booths and bathrooms, and in some cases, deprived blacks of the right to vote. The voting right act was an act in 1965 that enforced the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. It was also when the federal legislation in the United States prohibited discrimination in voting.The voting right act was passed on August 6, 1965 , signed by president Lyndon B. Johnson. The act was passed to give African Americans protection when voting because before, when they trying to vote people would kill them. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed because it abolished literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise African American