The Conscience Fund During The Civil War

The Confederacy has several reasons that they use to try to justify their attempt at seceding from the United States of America. They claim it was over state’s rights, or cultural differences, or any other reason. However, the biggest cause of secession and ultimately war was money. The North was shackling the South with outrageous taxes and tariffs, which finally reached a boiling point.

The aftermath of the Civil War shook the nation. A new way of life was beginning for the people of America. A way of life that was beautiful and free to some and absolutely devastating to the rest. The country had changed and nobody did a better job at documenting this change than the authors. The authors used this new world to explore new and unique stories as well as capturing what it was actually like living in the post-Civil War times. This paper will examine post-Civil War Literature and its importance to documenting this period in history.

During the Civil War the Confederate’s finances were a disaster which cause many problems for the newly formed government. The new Confederate government had to create a treasury and a revenue- collecting bureaucracy from scratch. The desperate Confederate congress began taxing nearly everything, but enforcement of the tax was poor and evasion easy. The blockade of Southern ports enforced by the Union Navy also caused the prices on goods to go up. Dissent over the price of war increasingly erupted into mass demonstrations, rioting, looting, burning of house, and desertions from the military.

The Freedman's bureau was a government agency that helped in the aid of freed slaves in the south. The agency, formed by Abraham Lincoln helped distribute food, clothing and shelter. It also opened schools for former slaves. Although this helped a lot of people, Andrew Johnson wasn't interested in former slaves. In fact, he was even a previous slave owner himself.

For Cause and Comrades is a book written by James McPherson, with the help of diaries and letters written by soldiers from the Confederate and Union forces, he is able to formally detail accounts on why men fought in the civil war. Consequently, McPherson is able to shed light on the mentality and motives that soldiers possessed that made them fight in the war. Although we will never truly know why soldiers fought in the civil war, this book most definitely gives readers evidence that soldiers had certain values and morals that gave them reason to fight.

Did the United States Change After the Civil War? On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse. The surrender of Robert E. Lee marked the end of the Civil War. After the Civil War, the 13th

Lincoln is one of the “champions” of human life and dignity. He is one of the presidents in the US. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, including Illinois, whose original 1818 Constitution forbade slavery, as required by the Northwest Ordinance. Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U.S. territory in the west. On October 16, 1854, in his "Peoria Speech", Lincoln declared his

The civil war was based on mostly greed on the south's part the north's was more morally driven seeing that what the south was doing to people was inhumane. Yes the north was making huge profits from the southern plantations owners but i think that says a lot about north that although they were making money of the salves just like the south they still saw that it was not right what they where doing to the

Lost Cause ideology was an idea that developed following the civil war, which stated that the South did not in fact fight the war in an effort to maintain slavery (A notion that was directly stated in their declarations of secession), but that the Civil War was fought to protect state’s rights from the government and to preserve southern culture. The idea promotes the south’s feeling of bravery, rebellion, and struggling against the national government, contributing to feeling of superiority over the north and pride in the south. Lost Cause Ideology was not accepted by everybody in the North, but it did contribute into easing reunification and reaccepting the South back into the union. Lost Cause Ideology portrayed the Slave-owning south as a fantastical paradise where African Americans lived in blissful servitude, almost as if they were part of the family. The idea diminishes the role of white supremacy, and downplays the horrific aspects of slavery, such as rape, torture, and beatings.

Democracy, lead to an extreme sense of individualism within each state. This idea of individualism throughout the states ultimately led to the secession of the southern states due to their individual right to institutionalize slavery within their own. The southern states planned to expand the institutionalization of slavery through manifest destiny as America as a country continued to expand west, especially in newly acquired territories such as California. As the story goes, the southern states decided to succeed from the American Union thus creating the beginning of the civil war thus separating the country entirely.

In Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, Nicholas Lemann describes how reconstruction failed because of the violent strategies and intimidation of white southerners to African Americans, which took place mainly in Southern states like Mississippi and Louisiana. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the south in 1863. Later on, the thirteenth amendment was ratified to abolish slavery in 1865. Even though these documents were completed, African Americans were still fighting for their rights and went through hardships to keep their rights with the help of a few leaders. White Southerners believed that racial hierarchy was the natural order and that’s the only order they will go by.

The Civil War drastically changed America, and made it what it is today. The Civil War lasted for a lengthy 4 years. During this time there was a lot of tension between the North and the South. The South at this time depended on slaves, and thought what they were doing was truly right. A significant amount of people in the North detested the treatment of Africans in the South.

The civil war had a large sum of effects on the American economy during and after the war proper. Firstly, the war stimulated the development of several instrumental inventions, and caused need for widespread use of many creations currently around. These innovations included many weapons, as well as new medical techniques and railroads. Secondly, the civil war took slaves away from the south, which were an integral part of the southern agricultural business. Lastly, the Civil War cost a large amount of money, which put America at a monetary deficit, further stimulating the economy.

Reconstruction was a period of time after the Civil War (1865-1877) that was supposed to be the rebuilding of America. It was also the process used to readmit all the Confederate states back into the Union. There was controversy, however, on how to go about rebuilding the nation. Abraham Lincoln proposed a lenient plan. After he was assassinated, Andrew Johnson proposed a very similar plan. The Radical Republicans, a group of legislators that were in favor of freedmen’s rights, were opposed to both plans under “Presidential Reconstruction”. They initiated “Congressional Reconstruction”. Because of the conflicting views, there was little cooperation between the Executive and Legislative branches. This lead to many unsuccessful

The civil war began early in the spring of 1861 after the South’s secession from the Union and ended during the same season four years later in 1865. Though the war lasted for a rather short amount of time, for the ones it affected it seemed to be never-ending. The impact that the war had on Southerners was rather traitorous, them being the ones who suffered most. Many men lost their homes and property while many, many more men lost their lives fighting for them. There were many types of Southerners in 1861, the war affecting all of them differently, with some of the richer and higher members of society having an easier time both before and after the war. One amazing author, Margret Mitchell, created an in depth story of a southern-belle