Civil War Summary And Analysis

In order to fully understand the causes of the American Civil War, one must first understand what initially caused the southern states to secede. While all of the states in the Confederacy wrote what each state called its “Article of Secession,” four states made additional documents, explain their reasons for leaving the Union. Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi expound upon these reasons in their “Declaration of Causes” (Pierce). In analyzing these documents, one can better comprehend what the South was fighting for. Each of the four states focused much of their writing on the issue of slavery. While some of the states mentioned problems with the military, economics, and states’ rights, all of them made clear that they wanted to defend slavery (Pierce). So, if slavery was the primary cause for the secession of the southern states, then it has to be the primary cause of the ensuing war, as well. Gordon Leidner explains “…was the war about slavery? Of course. If there had been no disagreement over the issue of slavery, the South would probably not have

The 22nd and 28th Iowa Regiments left Hamburg in June of 1865. Their war was over.

The Civil War and Reconstruction both changed politics in terms of participation and the role of the federal government. To start off, the African American population was allowed to vote which increased participation in the government. This was because of the 15th amendment which made it illegal to deny a person’s right to vote because of the color of the skin or their previous condition of servitude. This meant that men who were African American could legally vote and hold office which greatly increased the amount of political participation in the government. In certain states in the South, African Americans even outnumbered the white people in voter registration. Before the Civil War, African Americans couldn’t vote because most were slaves and there were laws prohibiting black people from voting. Even free African Americans weren’t allowed to vote. However, because of the Civil War and in turn Reconstruction, African Americans were given the right to vote, greatly expanding the diversity of

The Reconstruction Period I think is a problem for the African Americans back then. They were treated unfairly during this period, when it was to being them a new started and hope of change. Don’t get me wrong there were some people who were for them to e happy, but not many. So, let start at the being; where it all happened. In January of 1865, Union General William T. Sherman issued a special field order Number 15, which temporary granted each freed family 40 acres of land off the region of Georgia in the islands and coastal area. Also the Union Army donated mules to them after the war was over. In the summer of 1865 when President Andrew Johnson was in office, his first act of Reconstruction was to give back all the federal control land back to its previous owner. When the land was giving back to the owners, freed men and women could sign a labor contracts with the planters or they could leave the land they occupied this was called Freedman’s Bureau. Soon after when the land was giving back, the former Confederate state stated “Black Codes”. Black Codes would deny African Americans to legal have equality and political rights. Also it would require then to sign yearly labor contracts with the planters. When this happen, Congress made the Reconstruction Act in the 1867, when the 14th (June 13, 1866) and the 15th (February 26, 1869, ratified on February 3, 1870) Amendments. These two amendments granted African Americans the right to vote, and equality before the law and

Over 50 percent of voters in the south chose to pledge allegiance to the U.S. Reconstruction also finally settled rights vs. federalism debate that's been happening since the 1790s. Also the south have acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment. The failures in the reconstruction era was that it didn't really protect freed slaves voting rights. When President Rutherford B. Hayes removed federal troops from the South. Former slave owners and confederate officials returned to power. White southern politicians passed black codes, voter qualifications and other legislations that reversed rights that african americans had gained during Reconstruction. Also with sharecropping it didn't really help African americans because it just kept them tied to rich white landowners. In mid reconstruction white northerners have gotten tired with fighting for african american civil rights that African american had to fight for their own because people weren't doing anything

They virtually had no freedoms when it came to politics even though Reconstruction yet again put up a front as if they did. To summarize the 15th amendment, in Doc D, African American men now had the right to vote, but did this really mean they were able to actively participate in the government that led them? The answer is both yes and no, while African American men certainly had the ability to vote, most chose not to vote due to the danger and threat posed by the KKK. Nonetheless, it wasn’t only violence stopping former slaves, southern states installed state constitutions that made it even more difficult to vote. The states required an annual polling tax which was impossible for freedmen to pay due to the economic severity placed on them after the civil war. That was only the most just out of all the unjust rules placed, voters would also take a literacy test given by white clerks who purposely gave more complex passages to black voters as opposed to easier passages to whites. Now saying blacks couldn’t vote didn’t mean there were no black politicians. African Americans held office but as shown in Doc J did not hold a credible reputation. Black legislators - well not just black legislators but the race as a whole - held many stereotypes and were seen as lazy, classless, and rowdy. In addition to these stereotypes, many black legislators were believed to be puppets and or corrupt. Also expressed in Doc

During the period of Reconstruction (1865-1877) in the Southern United States local government positions had been taken over by the Republican Party. Through local militants and, what can be deemed by today standards, terrorist by the mid 1870’s many of these Republican office holders had been run out of town. These local militants also used intimidation to keep blacks from voting in the south. By doing these acts the Southern Democrats soon regained control of political power in the south and would start striping away rights of the black community. Once Democrats were back in power intimidation was no longer needed to keep blacks from voting, they set up some of the first laws that were specifically deemed to restrict the civil liberties of

On June 7th, 2015 nine African Americans were tragically killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, that following morning, 21-year-old Dylan Roof confessed to the murder while in police custody. Days later, evidence of Roof’s racism and hatred toward blacks emerged, including several pictures of him holding the confederate flag. This sparked a national debate on whether the flag should be banned, and if it was appropriate to have it hung on government buildings.

During the Reconstruction, some southern states still found ways to segregate against former slaves and limit voting to white men only. For example, southern states used black codes, which were laws to limit the

During the reconstruction years, many changes occurred to give blacks more rights and a place in American society. First, blacks were given many opportunities to learn through the Freedmen’s Bureau and other organizations. Secondly, the government helped blacks acquire jobs, so they could provide for themselves. Lastly, blacks were able to vote for a while. This caused the election of blacks into government positions up to state level. Unfortunately, many people, especially southerners, did not approve of this.

Events during the 1800’s spurred the anticipation of The Civil War. Four significant events that played a particular role in leading up to the Civil War were The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Bleeding Kansas and the Pottawotomie Massacre, and James Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. These specific four events played important parts in what the Civil War played out to be.

Many Texans contend that the Civil War was not fought over slavery, citing the limited number of slave-owning households in the state. While the majority of Texans did not own slaves, it would be inaccurate to argue that they were therefore against slavery. Texas, representative of other southern states that supported slavery, had a vested interest in preserving the institution at all costs, which is why they risked their lives over it. Moreover, Texans may argue that the civil war was about states’ rights or defense of the southern “way of life.” States’ rights, though part of the equation, played a diminished role as a whole in prompting the Civil War. Furthermore, because it revolved mostly around slavery, the southern “way of life”

The first group of soldiers on the scene launched a mortar shell at 10 advancing creatures marching in unison toward them, two abreast. The shell exploded before the two first rows of creatures and destroyed them only to see the remaining three rows march over their fallen comrades without care, and then those fallen comrades rise from the ground to take flank and continue their advance, forming the rear. In retaliation one of the creatures marching in the front line raised its hand in a staccato motion to present what appeared to be a laser bolt emitting from the parabolic flashbulb disk device it held. The beam was aimed into the radiator of an advancing troop truck resulting in total destruction of the truck and its personnel in a fireball explosion. Without mercy this was repeated with an ambulance, causing it to upturn crashing into a tree, setting itself

The Roman Republic was a system of procedures formed by tradition; there was no written constitution or legally binding legislation. Precedent and consensus set procedure creating the parameters for acceptable behaviour. However, it was near the end of the 2nd century BC, where the system began to deteriorate and fall, ultimately causing the civil war in 49 BC. The boundaries of acceptable behaviour were stretched by politicians such as Caesar and Pompey and as a result new perilous precedents were set. Violence along with the use of an army became a political tool in the domestic, political sphere. The civil war laid on the foundations that constitutional methods proved ineffective in the face of an inadequate aristocratic government and therefore Caesar and the senate lead by Pompey used violence and rebellion against each other in an attempt to stabilise the administrative system of government and essentially control Rome. Caesar himself ignited the civil war as a result of the unstable Roman Republic, major events such as rebellion and revolts, senate and the political sphere and the breakdown of the triumvirate, which fuelled the motive for civil war. The corrupted Roman system alongside with personal issues and disagreements became the catalyst for the civil war of 49 BC and consequently set the parameters for the new dictatorial Roman world.

Slavery was the most important cause of the Civil War, because this single issue divided the North and South to begin with. The ideological differences between the North and South led to economic differences, conflicts over newly acquired territories, disputes over the constitution, and political extremism. The Election of 1860 was the culmination of these disputes and caused the South to secede in 1861 and guided the way towards the Civil War.