The Civil War : America 's Second Revolution

The secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860, by a vote of 169-0 was a response to the election of Abraham Lincoln of 1860. Lincoln perceived as an abolitionist wanted to contain slavery rather than ending it. The majority party above the Mason-Dixon line were Republicans and below were primarily Democrats and Republicans were viewed as abolitionists. The election of a Republican threatened the South’s status quo. The primary catalyst for secession was based on slavery. Different social cultures and political beliefs developed due to the South’s intimate and reliant relationship on slavery. Southern whites feared the end of slavery and this paranoia was shared among plantation slave owners and white Yeoman farmers. Southern whites felt that the North were threatening the supposed tranquility of the South. The South’s agrarian economy, honor, and independence were believed to be in danger. Slavery was intertwined with the South’s social, cultural, and economic makeup. As a result of slavery, the South developed a paternalistic culture and racial ideology of white supremacy. The perceived notion that the North was influencing it’s political and social beliefs on the South lead them to believe that secession was the only act of self-preservation. The growing differences between the South and North made it difficult to negotiate. This fear was exaggerated and accelerated the South’s eventual implosion. The South believed that without slavery it would self-destruct and

The Civil War could easily be seen as the second American Revolution considering it brought about significant change in history in the political, social, and economic aspects. Prior to the civil war, there had been a policy of slavery in the South which was a main cause of the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy. In the post-war period, slavery had been abolished which brought about much change in not only the social but economic aspect as well. There are many points from which the Civil War can be seen as revolutionary. In the political view, the Republican Party had dominated the political system for a long period of time. Economically, both the North and South had suffered from the costs of the war but had also prospered in

Before the civil war, the country was dividing between the north and south, Problems included the states’ rights and disagreements over tariffs hi but the greatest divide was on the issue of slavery. Slavery was legal in the south but had been banned by sets north of the Mason Dixon line. With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln who ran a message of containing slavery to where it currently existed and the success of the republican party to which he belonged. South Carolina issued a proclamation on December 24, 1860, to explain its reasons for seceding from the United states. An official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the united states on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into us territories Years after the wars end claims were made that South Carolina decision to secede was created by other issues such as tariffs and taxes but these issues were not mentioned at all in the deceleration The primary focus of the declaration is the perceived violation of

The Civil War is known as a turning point in America, the road to ending slavery, while first turning a nation against each other.

In 1865, the United States government implemented what was known as Reconstruction. Its’ purpose was to remove slavery from the south, and give African-American’s the freedom in which they deserved. However, the freedom that they deserved was not the freedom that they received. With documents like The Black Codes restricting them from numerous privileges that white people had and the terroristic organization known as the Klu Klux Klan attacking and killing them, African-American’s were still being oppressed by their government as well as their fellow man. Slavery may have been abolished, but African-American’s were not yet given the freedom and rights that their white counterparts took for granted.

The world has faced the dangers of war almost since the beginnings of time, and America in the mid-1800’s was no different. Despite the Union having won its freedom from England during the Revolutionary War less than a century before, problems were brewing internally within the young and rapidly expanding country. As slavery boomed in the southern states, the North grew less and less content with this state of affairs. It is said that “to southern whites, the Republican victory in 1860 presented an immediate danger to the slave-owning republic that had existed since 1776” (Henretta, 2012, p. 418). Southerners were not ready to lose one of their most valuable commodities, slaves, which they feared would happen under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, although he promised “to safeguard slavery where it existed but vowed to prevent its expansion” (Henretta, 2012, p. 420). Unheeding of Lincoln’s vows, and hoping to preserve the individual state’s rights, “radical southerners chose the dangerous enterprise of secession” (Henretta, 2012, p. 418).

The American Civil War is often considered a second American Revolution, with the emancipation of slaves a major victory for the progressives and the oppressed of this era. Likewise, the Civil War can be interpreted as a major loss for states’ rights, an argument that is at the forefront of all parts of the right wing. The Civil War can be viewed as both, but the freeing of slaves in the South was the right thing to do and definitely a win for human rights as a whole. Abraham Lincoln in the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation begins his statement with this, “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government

In the time between the election of 1860 and the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March of 1861, a total of seven states had withdrawn from the Union for several reasons. The South first argued that the North threatened liberty, and they protested that an assertion of federal power would overturn slavery and destroy the one institution that guaranteed equality for white Americans. Along with this, the South feared that the Republican Party’s victory would set into motion the complete eradication of slavery. Their next argument was that Lincoln and Republican Congressmen ignored the Dred Scott case, showing an usurpation of power that was unconstitutional and even justified leaving the Union; the South viewed their slaves as property and believed no one could take this right. The South believed their right to secede

I pulled the trigger to my gun. The bullet went directly into the shoulder of the Boss. I hit the other psycho in the head with my gun. Then I told the family to call the cops and not mention me. I got the hell out of there. When I got home I took off all of my clothes, put new ones on, then burned them.

Most people know it as the Civil War, but it ought to be best known as The Confederate States of America, home to the 13 colonies from the Civil War and American Revolution. The Confederate States of America originally started out with 11 states in 1860 and on July 15, 1870 Georgia was the last Confederate state; when they were operating under the Articles of Confederation, providing guns to militias. The founder found out the Constitution was too weak and decided to adopt the US Constitution to have more power and adopt an army. Their army needed guns and when they provided guns, this meant war. On December 15, 1971, a little after the Civil War the Second Amendment was born. The Second Amendment ties in with Confederacy because the

1775, British parliament has recently instituted several unjust laws that colonists of the Americas will coin the intolerable acts war is inevitable but many colonists are still uncomfortable with the idea of fighting their country of origin in order for revolution to be achieved the general populous and the politicians that represent them must be persuaded to either independence or peace.

Americans before the Civil War came to the United States to acquire self-preservation and to explore the foundation of capitalism. Songwriters such as Stephen Foster, felt the American people needed an image to follow a need for Puritan mentality. Without a doubt, music purposely expressed these movements by the usage of musical lyrics to analyze the discrimination against African American slaves and the secession of the United States, which reflected the turmoil of the separated Puritan communities. In short, after the American Revolution, many Americans feared the idea of self-preservation within communities, expressing that Americans had no real endeavor in working together. Moreover, writers like J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, practiced to establish a diverse America, not only to separate Americans and show how different they act according to their surroundings, but helped to express how an environment can change one’s self-preservation. Nevertheless, Americans left a deliberate standing point to follow as countless Puritans did before. The purpose of how music can diversify a community and make Americans’ self-preservation move toward their surroundings remained the example left by these idols. Undoubtedly, the environment itself obtained the biggest challenge for American Puritans. In any case, with the help of Foster’s intuition about how Americans should act as a community and the emotions that thrived within the musical lyrics of his songs—Beautiful Dreamer, Oh!

THE TIMELINE OF THE CONSTITUTION BEGINS IN 1775 WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. IN 1776 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS WRITTEN AND APPROVED BY THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. IN 1782NTHE REVOULTIONARY WAR ENDS, AND THE CONTENTAL CONGRESS AGREES ON THE END OF CONFEDERATION, THEN ON MARCH 1ST CONTINENTIAL CONGRESS IS REPLACED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATION, WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF THE US, GOVERNMENT. IN 1883 BRITIAN RECOGNIZES THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE USA WITH THE TREATY OF PARIS. IN 1787 THE US CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA. THENIN 1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ELECTED THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ON MARCH 4TH THE CONGRESS MET IN NEW YORK,NEW YORK AT THE TIME WAS THE

Some 4 million Syrians have fled their country to escape the war, terrorism and oppression due to the Syrian Civil War that began that began in 2011. The majority of these Syrian refugees had searched for asylum in neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon, or Jordan but find out that those places are just as bad (Sengupta). It is the United States’ moral obligation to give asylum to those in need due to the values and ideals that the United States of America was established. The American republic was founded on a set of beliefs, Among them was the idea that all people are created equal, whether European, Native American, or African American, and that these people have fundamental rights, such as liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, and freedom of assembly ("Founded on a Set of Beliefs"). In addition United States having a surplus of resource and the ability to provide asylum, but wavers to act due past experiences and ultimately the fear of terrorism.

Throughout American history, the United States Mint has coined several denominations that would now be considered “odd” or “strange” by the general public: the half cent, two-cent piece, three-cent piece, half dime, twenty-cent piece, quarter eagle, three dollar piece, half eagle, eagle, and double eagle. At the time, however, many of these were seen in everyday circulation, a completely normal denomination. Each of them had a purpose behind its inception and a practical use after mintage. For example, the two cent piece was coined during and after the American Civil War to address the shortage of small denomination coinage. The three cent piece was minted to make purchasing postage more convenient, which was priced at three cents at the time. One of these denominations stands out from the rest: the twenty-cent piece. It holds the honor of being the shortest lived circulation denomination in United States history. This, however, should not come as a surprise; the denomination was doomed from the beginning.