investigation will explore the question: How did technological advancements help to shape the Northern victory in the U. S. Civil War? The time frame for the investigation will range from the 1830s to 1865 when the Civil war ended; many technologies were created far prior to the Civil war, but were improved upon or finally put to work beginning around this period. The first source to be evaluated is called “Mr. Lincoln 's High-tech War: How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons
I agree with the idea that the North had won the Civil War before it began to the extent of Lincoln 's conservative political stands. Trying to receive the favor of the South while winning in the North would require Lincoln to take neutral stands in heated political issues like slavery. It wasn 't really wan by the North until he broke away from these stands to enact the Emancipation Proclamation and turn the tides of war in favor of the North. "This Lincoln always publicly condemned the abolitionists
Why did the North win the Civil War? One of the most important event in the history of the United States is the war of the North and South of 1861-1865, the Civil War. The main causes of the war lay in the field of economics. In the North, in the period preceding the war, a powerful industry and a banking sector were created. The open slave trade and slavery did not bring such fabulous profits as the exploitation of thousands and thousands of "free" people in terrible conditions. The northern
between the North and the South. There is many reason into why the United States had a war between the North and the South. The United States was divided depending on location and personal sentiments. People in the United States sometimes think that this war was only fought over slavery, but there was many reason in why the Union and the Confederate States of America fought. The war was fought on many reason such as the idea of slavery, states’ rights, trade, and tariffs. The Civil War lasted for
right before the Thirteenth amendment and greatly influenced the end of slavery, this was called the Emancipation Proclamation. For many years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, people began to turn against the idea of slavery and started to rebel and protest it. During the time it was signed, the Civil war was in progress and Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States at the time. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and was a disagreement between the North and South
The Civil War's outcome could have gone either way, on one hand you have the North, which had the industrial advantage, and the South on the other who had a home field advantage and better generals too. The war pitted brother against brother and father against son, and lost many wives their sons and or husbands. The victory of the North was due to many economical factors that hindered, and ultimately defeated the South. The North was the industrial part of the country. It depended on its' factories
forth during its existence as an Independent Republic. Clay 's third pair of resolutions called for abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia but a surety of slavery itself in the District. These six proposals produced more to the North then to the South, Clay 's final pair of resolutions tipped the balance Southward by denying congressional power over the interstate slave trade and calling for a stronger law to enable slave holders to recover their property when they “fled to free
the North had to enforce the law which it hated. As the United States expanded westward, two new territories were carved out and the issue of slavery arose again. The U.S. government let the two new territories decide themselves whether or not to permit slavery. Since it was up to the people to decide the slavery issue, Northern abolitionists enticed anti-slavery supporters to move into the new regions and vote to make Kansas and Nebraska free states. Southern pro-slavery supporters did exactly
Advances The Civil War was a time of one country divided among itself because of the freedoms of slaves. When Abe Lincoln was first elected that was the South’s turning point but the attack on Fort Wagner was the beginning battle to a war between States. One result of the Civil War was that Congress put into action the 13th amendment, banning slavery. The North were fighting for the freedom of slaves while on the other hand the South opposed this and fought to keep slavery legal. The North had many things
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and string us to death. It is unnecessary. It put us in the wrong. It is fatal. –Robert Toombs. (Boerner paragraph 2). The Civil War impacted the course of history forever. But it had to start somewhere and the Battle of Fort Sumter marked the start.