HIS-144-RS-America at War Worksheet

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HIS-144 T7: AMERICA AT WAR Name: Nichole Miller Directions: Using resources from the Topic 7 Readings, including your textbook, materials provided by your instructor through class discussion, and materials from the GCU Library Guide for HIS-144 US History Themes, respond to the five questions below. Each answer should be 100-200 words, all answers need in-text citations. While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. Wikipedia, Ask.com, ehow.com and other online information sites, encyclopedias, or dictionaries are not considered university academic sources and are NOT TO BE USED. 1. What were the causes of the war? Make sure you focus on one war. The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, and was the result of years of conflict and controversy over international issues and American law (National Park Service, 2015). Although the most effective way to stop the war was to completely abolish slavery, there were three attempts to stop the Civil War: the Crittenden Treaty, the Compromise, the Washington Treaty, and the Amendment and Corwin”. The Corwin Amendment, as it was called at the time, was one of three attempts to resolve the secession problem between Lincoln’s election and Vote 039 in November 1860 and the shooting at Fort Sumter in April 1861 (Schultz, 2018). The Crittenden Plan and the Washington Peace Treaty were rejected by Republicans as being too pro-slavery and against the Republican base’s opposition to the expansion of slavery. 2. Describe the general course of the war (major battles, leader decisions, significant events). What was the turning point for victory or defeat? This struggle fundamentally happened between the American Union (Northern states) and the withdrawn states, also known as the Confederacy (Southern states), due to issues related to slavery, states` rights, and political control.

The Civil War can be categorized into a few critical phases, including early confederate triumphs between 1861-1862, Union advancements between 1862-1863, and stalemate and Southern overcome between 1863-1865 (National Geographic Society, 2023). In any case, in 1862, the Union started gain momentum and won a few battles, including the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Antietam. The turning point of the war happened in July 1863 when the Union won the Battle of Gettysburg, the first major Union triumph within the east. The Union triumph at the Battle of Gettysburg conclusively marked the defeat of the Confederacy. 3. How did the home front respond to this war? Discuss some of the opportunities and challenges American society faced during the war. To differentiate between the abolitionist North and the slaveholding South brought about within the Civil War, after the election of Abraham Lincoln, leader of the Republican Party, as President of the United States (November 1860), in support of a progressive abolition of slavery. The mobilization of a expansive number of soldiers and the use of new military technology – the repeating rifle, mines, machine guns, battleships and torpedoes were used for the first time, making this war the first of the industrial era – caused a very high number of casualties and very serious harm to the cities included within the strife (Backus, 2021). The economic and demographic superiority of the North weighed on the outcome of the strife, which finished on 9 April 1865 with the capitulation of the Southerners. Opposite to Lincoln`s political line, who would have needed to implement a plan of national compromise, Congress imposed on his successor, Andrew Johnson, a so-called ‘reconstruction’ project that in reality set up a regime of military occupation within the southern states. Capitalist forces benefited greatly from post-war reconstruction, which favored the full development of the industrial economy and the expansion of capital from the East to the whole of America. Within half a century, the United States moved into first place within the world ranking of mechanical production. 4. What were the outcomes of the war? Explain the significant changes or results that followed the war. References Backus, P.G. (2021). Total war: the civil war’s effect on the home front. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/total-war-civil-wars-effect-home-front National Geographic Society. (2023). Defining battles of the civil war. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/defining-battles-civil-war/

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