The End Of The Civil War

In 1861, a Civil War broke out in the United States when the South declared their independence from the Union. There is a great amount of reasons that people can argue how the Civil War was started. However, what most people don’t understand, is that most of the events leading up to the Civil War were related to slavery. Slavery was the core of the North and South’s conflict, which led to a very vicious feud.

Before the Civil War started, the North and the South argued on two main topics: slavery and state rights. In my opinion, it was because of slavery that state rights were argued. When Western territories were annexed from Mexico, they were admitted to the Union with the condition that that slavery be banned through the Wilmot Proviso (History.com). Because of this, slave states felt they were unfairly treated and outnumbered. The religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening also gave way to new ideology. Combined with the growing abolitionist sentiment, Northern states began taking action against Southern states. Because their rights as

“The US Civil War was incontrovertibly the bloodiest, most devastating conflict in American history, and it remains unknown - and unknowable - exactly how many men died in Union and Confederate uniform” (Nasaw, 2012). At the end of the American Civil War, in 1865 slavery was abolished, the military was greatly enhanced, and the great nation of America became whole again with the North and South being brought together.

In the 1860s there was a war between the North and South otherwise known these two groups were known as the Union and the Confederates. This war was called the civil war, reasons of its occurrence may seem simple but there was complex reasoning that led to the occurence of the civil war. These events could include slavery, economic differences, and cultural differences. Many believe that the only cause for the civil war was slavery but there was much that went into the beginning of the civil war. It started as differences between their economies which include industrialization in the North and agricultural in the South. Then these differences evolved into different opinions on culture and politics. The final tipping point into the civil war

The action against Fort Sumter would be the beginning to a war that would last from 1861 to 1865. At the beginning of the war slavery was not considered the number one reason for the war. By the wars end the politics on both side needed to justify the war to their respected public. The fight against slavery would become the North’s selling point to the public. The South would remain steadfast on the position of fighting for their overall rights as citizens of the United States and that included defending the right for slavery. The face of this war was now slavery (Mauser, 2011, 11). After the war ended on 9 April 1865, both sides had lost hundreds of thousands of men to some of the bloodiest battles in

On April 12, 1861 the Civil War had begun. The Civil war was one of the most deadly wars for Americans, because every person that fought in the war was American. A civil war is when two or more groups of the same country fight against each other. That is what happened to America. The base was located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort was a Confederate owned base in the south. The battle of fort Sumter was important because it was a major turning point, the cause of the war; also the battle that had the first shots of the war.

The civil war started on the Fort sumter , there has been a lot of tension because of the Fort sumter between the union and the confederacy for several months. The state wanted the union to return the Fort Sumter but they didn’t want to return they refused to give it up so the confederacy had no choice but to go to war with them to get the Fort Sumter back to them. Everything still stayed the same but when abraham lincoln took office in march 4 , He said you can not have conflict without being yourself the aggressors.

It is quite obvious that there were many goals to achieve during the Civil War. But discovering the true meaning and vision of the Civil War is the concept that is still researched today by the people of America. In the prologue of Blight’s Race and Reunion he states: (Three overall visions of the Civil War memory collided and combined over time: one, the reconciliationist vision … two, the white supremacist vision … and three, the emancipationist vision…) All three of these visions are extremely important, however, I mainly want to stress the importance of the white supremacist vision and the emancipationist vision. An obvious form of the change for the meaning of the Civil War through the period of Reconstruction is through the eyes of emancipationists. Emancipationist’s visions are mainly seen through African American’s eyes as they remember their freedom through the Civil War and Reconstruction. They see the Civil War as a new construction for the liberation of blacks through citizenship and Constitutional equality. It seems quite obvious that the Blacks did indeed earn more rights as Reconstruction progressed but, there were disagreements of the rights for Blacks. The white supremacist vision did not want the Civil War to be seen as a war fought for the freedom of Blacks and Blacks rights. They wanted the Civil War to be envisioned as a defense of Southern rights as their “property” (slaves) was soon to be taken. Both of these ideas and interpretations still live on in

The Civil War was an important part of history. The issues of slavery and central power divided the United States. It was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The American Civil War began when Confederate forces attacked a U.S Union Military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Abraham Lincoln was the President during this war. Many people lost their lives during this war. The Civil War was America’s bloodiest conflict.

The American Civil War, also known as the Civil War, lasted from 1861 to 1865. The war was to determine the survival of the union, or independence for the confederate states. Some would argue that slavery was the principle cause of the war. After much research, I believe the war started because of the misunderstandings, and conflicts between the North and South. Slavery, however, was one of the main purposes. The North and South had economic and social differences causing many disagreements. They argued about state and federal rights, expansion of slave states, the Abolition Movement, and the election of Abraham Lincoln.

The Civil War, lasting from 1861-1865, consisted of numerous bloody battles, military involvements and other historically significant events. There were over ten thousand events, fifty of them being major.. These battles stretched across twenty-three states and caused over half a million casualties. America was divided between the confederates and union. One of these events started in Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Confederate States of America were a chain of eleven southern states that separated from the union. It began with Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. The Battle of Fort Sumter, being one of the first of many battles of the Civil War, was located at the Charleston Harbor, South

The Civil War, fought from 1861 thru 1865, not only divided the nation into north and south but also became the bloodiest war in American history with over 600,000 casualties. Furthermore, ties between the already unpopular President Abraham Lincoln and congress, to include majority of his cabinet, broke making it ever more evident the discontent of the political body with the decisions the president would make in the months leading to the end of the war. As the war came to an end and the road towards reconstruction began, congress and President Lincoln, along with Vice President Andrew Johnson and William Seward, began to debate on the punishment the South would have to endure for their wretched rebellion. Soon congressmen, such as

After the Civil War, the fact that slavery was abolished might seem to be the end of the story; however, the problems derived from the abolishment of slavery had yet to be addressed. During the Reconstruction Era, these problems were reflected on the political, social, and economic aspects. Which played several major roles in shaping America from the late nineteenth into the twentieth centuries.These three aspects, political, social, and economical, affected one another so much that they were inseparable. The beginning leniency of Andrew Johnson all the way to the Confederates and later the political conflict between Johnson and the Radical Republicans, and lastly, the political struggle between Republicans and Democrats. It all resulted in the ever-changing policies toward the freed people. These different policies had strong effects on the society, especially the freed people. Although some of the policies, such as the abolition of slavery and several Constitutional Amendments were beneficial to the rights of freed people, the sudden increase of freed people brought about the separation of black and white and many other social issues. Thus the real equality among people still had yet to be achieved. The economy also affected the society and the politics. The depression of the economy after the Civil War made people focus on their own situations, instead of worrying about the freed people. For example the people were distressed about getting money and how to provide for

April 02, 1865, one of the most strategic Southern Generals, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 Confederate Soldiers to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. At the Battle of Appomattox in northern Virginia, General Lee gave up the Confederate’s capital of Richmond. (Farmer, 2016) This has been marked throughout history as the end of the Civil War. The war was over before it ever began. Not to make this sound all one sided, meaning that the Union had all the advantages. The Confederate Army had many of their own advantages. The South was made up of 750,000 square miles, which held most of the Army’s War Colleges. Southern gentleman made for better Soldiers as a results of them being all farmers, hunters, and generally avid outdoorsmen. (Farmer, 2016) These advantages were nothing compared to the upper hand the Union used to outlast the South.

There were many factors that contributed to the beginning of the Civil War. Socially, the North and South were built on very different standards. The North was known as the “free-states” in which they had more immigrants settling in its boundaries. In the North labor was very much needed, within this time it is important to understand that in terms of labor, labor of slaves was not needed. Not in that way. Therefore, the North was made up of a more industrialized society where most people worked in places such as factories. Another important factor about the North’s social society is that there was no class system that was needed, they did not follow a class system, whoever they needed came. Another important factor about the free states