The Civil War : The United States

The Eve of War provided statistics of 1860, church records, images, newspaper articles, letters, and census records. During the eve of the war Augusta had more slaves, even though only 207 households owned slaves out of 807 households in the county. Also, despite the amount of land the county had, it did not have the best soil to grow crops. The statistics informed me that

Succeeding from certain countries is often a common solution that many would agree on in order to avoid problems within a nation. A war that includes this action is the civil war. After several disagreements of lifestyle, the South had succeeded from the United States of America. However, Abraham Lincoln’s initial goal was to keep the Union as a whole, as he continuously worked on achieving this goal. There are many accountable reasons for the Civil War, but the disagreement on slave vs. free states and the election of 1860 were the two main causes to the succeeding of the south.

The Civil War brought the United States down to its knees. This blood-soaked conflict became one of the most brutal wars that this country has taken arms to and the destruction from the result of the war validates this view. Thus a period coined as Reconstruction started where the main objectives of the national government were to rebuild the southern confederate states and to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves. Throughout this tumultuous period, three significant court cases, US v. Cruikshank, US v. Reese, and US v. Anthony, used race and gender in the United States to shape and limit what it means to be a citizen with alleged “privileges and immunities.”

The cultivated South used slaves to take care of its large plantations and do other jobs. On the night of the Civil War, four million Africans and their families worked extremely hard as slaves in the South. Slavery was interweaved into the Southern economy even though only a small part of the population owned slaves. Slaves could be rented or traded or sold to pay debts. Ownership of dozens and dozens of slaves showed respect and loyalty and also contributed to social position. The property of people and their businesses, showed the largest percentage of the nation’s personal and business wealth, as cotton and land prices went down and the price of slaves went up.

During the first century of the United States as an organized country , it experienced an unprecedented amount of growth. It had a territory that stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic; an industrial economy was slowly starting to form. Despite these accomplishments, the United States had one major problem standing in the way of it becoming a truly great country, the issue of slavery;slavery slowly drove the nation apart ever since the country was formed in 1776. Slavey clearly drew lines in the nation between the South which heavily relied on slavery for economics, and the North which opposed the institution of slavery as being immoral and clearly defining constitutional rights. The issue of slavery was heavily exacerbated by the idea of manifest destiny; manifest destiny was the idea that the United States should expand across North America since many believed it was their god given right. Slavery combined with the new territories acquired from manifest destiny ultimately contributed to the south’s secession of the union and the civil war because manifest destiny exacerbated the effects slavery had already had on the nation. Slavery had always caused tension between the North and South because slavery had always been an institution that the south full-heartedly swore by; despite the North’s unfavorable view of slavery, they couldn’t stop slavery since slavery was so engraved in the southern culture . Manifest destiny exacerbated these effects because politicians from

During the years of 1861 to 1865, The United States experienced one of its troubled moments in History. The nation was suffering from cilvil disorder, moral values, political struggles amongst a dividing nation. The “slave” states ( The South ) created the Confederation States of America, thus separating from the Northern States. Both sides were growing in opposites directions, economically and different social views. Of the industrialization and the evolving workforce, slavery and its cruel practices were the biggest concern of both parties.

On June 17th 2015, in Charleston S.C., where the roads are named after confederate generals, 21 year old Dylann Roof wore a Rhodesian badge, as he shot nine african americans in the Emanuel Church in hope of “igniting a civil war”. (Jessica Glenza; The guardian) Previously that year Roof, had been arrested and banned from a public mall, in march for a drug charge and in April for trespassing. In his case file it states that he was found in possession of narcotics to treat his drug addiction. It was also noted that he had an obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, despite these factors, Roof was still able to personally purchase the gun from a retail gun store in charleston because of lapses in the FBI background check system, (Ellen Nakashima; Washington Post) and commit this act of racial violence.

The conclusion of the civil war left the nation in a state of disorder, distress and misconfiguration. Life in the United States had changed dramatically. The United States faced the aftermath of the Civil War, emancipation, Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and the initiation of reconstruction. The former Confederacy was left with increasingly high racial tensions, a devastated economy, and a society in the midst of great upheaval as a result of the war. Conflicting motivations and ideas about change, as well as opinions on the scope of the federal government’s role in the south were at the center of the national debate over reconstruction. The question of the rights and identity of a newly formed citizen were also taking center stage during

widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as the Union or the North. The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. After four years of combat, which left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South 's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished. Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves.

Power to the people. This was the heart and soul of the United States of America. This country was run by the decisions of the individual states’ opinions. Then, the Civil War happened. This war was one of the most pivotal points in American history. The government tried to make a decision on its own without the consent of the country as a whole. This led to the destruction of the rights of the people. The destruction of the rights of the people gave the majority of the power to the federal government, who have abused it, repeatedly, ever since. America has gone through very dark time as a result of the Civil War. These are the three most important points to learn from the Civil War: it was caused by the breaking of state’s

During a civil war, the country 's is divided into two ideas. In a civil war, it gets bloody to the point that one kills their own blood because of their different points of views. When this happens, a generation tends to be lost. Forgot like the concept survival of the fittest; where one party wins and gets in control of the country. This happened in Guatemala during their thirty year civil war. It began in 1954, when President Arbenze left office. Reasons were, he had some socialist ideas that the United States interpreted as Communist ideology, such as making the United Fruit Company national (Burrett, 1954). This worried the United States, and planned to to impeach Arbenze. Methods such as instigating a civil war that encouraged

The civil war in the United States of America took place between April 12th 1869 and May 9th 1865. Those are worth a lot of reasons that the North went to war with the south the main reason was slavery. Where the North wanted to either get rid of slavery altogether or stop slavery from spreading to the new states coming into America the South wanted to expand slavery. Slavery has been around since the beginning of time, since back in the old Bible days. America was just one of the last remaining nations to abolish it. It was hard to abolish something that is so infused in the economic culture and in religious culture, not to mention it was also legal by law. Messing with a man 's religion his money and his freedom in the south east shore to get you in a sticky situation.

Throughout lectures this semester we have encountered numerous ‘characters’ so to speak who have helped to shape the United States of America through either their unified visions of the country or through their differing opinions and compromises. From the Colonists and English government all the way to the end of our textbook and the Civil War each character has had a clear cut vision of what the nation could do to improve itself because they each knew that without change there could be no progress because if you are not evolving, that meant things would stay the same. There is something to be said about this nation never being satisfied with its current state some may call it insanity, but these characters believed in their visions and called it progress. In this paper, we will explore the visions of each major player from this past semester and look at what each person wanted for the United States and the ultimate outcome and how things might have been if that trajectory had been changed.

War makes us what we are. It changes our lives and makes our past into the future. One of the most important events in American history was the Civil War (1861 to 1865). The Civil War changed thousands of lives and our nation. At the beginning the Civil War, it divided our country but at the end of the Civil War, it brought our country back together recreating the United States. “But the Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads”-Shelby Foote. This quote is right; the Civil War defines our nation as a country based on Independence and freedom. Our country could not be what it is today, without us going through 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.