Essay on The Role Kansas and Nebraska Played in the Civil War

Tensions before Civil War The Civil War was not a spontaneous conflict, rather it was the culmination of various events in American history that were in the two decades preceding it. These events exposed a rift in American society which would eventually lead to the Civil War. Among these events were the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Mexican-American War. Both of them lead to a highly polarized reactions from Northerners and Southerners in the slavery debate. In the end, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Mexican-American

1. Throughout the U.S., slaves were seen as necessity to society due to their role in agricultural production in the South. However, from 1776 to 1852, people's views of slavery were shifting due to the 2nd Great Awakening, Missouri Compromise, and Compromise of 1850. Therefore, these 3 events had played the most significant role as to how the opposing views of slavery had increased. 2. Even though the Civil War had ended, Africans weren't treated much differently compared to when they were slaves

While the events in Kansas spurred debates in Congress and in many ways added to the growing divide between North and South, the violence did not spread outside of Kansas and there were no large scale battles between proslavery and antislavery groups. Much of the credit for the maintenance of relative law and order is owed to the United States Army. The Army acted as a peace keeping force between the two opposing political factions, often called in by the Governor to assist in disbanding militias

Only Cause of the Civil War? The United States was a divided country long before the Civil War, while some people would argue that slavery was the only cause of the Civil War, it is much more complicated than that. There are many other factors involved, such as irreconcilable differences in terms of their economic, political, and social beliefs on a national scale. Many people including myself had a primitive and unsophisticated view of what caused the Civil War, post war propaganda and moral

Pushing America Toward a Civil War The three events that played a role in pushing America towards a civil war, were catalysts because they changed the culture of America and incited pro-slavery and antislavery sides to take action. The Dred Scott decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin caused enough friction and momentum in America that civil war was unavoidable. The mass publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 was the most influential event

BLUNDERING GENERATION 1 The “Blundering Generation” in the Civil War Camila Alvarez AP U.S. History Period 2 BLUNDERING GENERATION Abstract This paper explores the term coined by James G. Randall on 1940 “Blundering Generation”, which encompasses the “real” reasons that lead to the Civil War and blames the political leaders of the Era, the mistakes they made, their inability to compromise, and the way the Civil War was actually, and probably still is, romanticized (The Blundering

The American Civil War was Avoidable      The explosion of the American Civil War was caused by a vast number of conflicting principles and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences, and set afire by a very unfortunate set of political events. Undoubtedly, the central theme of almost all of the events that led up to the Civil War was one way or another, related to the dispute of slavery. Throughout the nineteenth century, slavery-related tensions brewed to such an extent, that politicians often

Between the start of the 1800’s and the mid 1850’s, the United States acquired a vast amount of territory through wars, annexation, and purchases. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana purchase in 1803, the United States began a campaign to acquire all the territory west of the Mississippi River and reach the coast of the Pacific Ocean. This time period would become known as Manifest Destiny. Over the five decades that Manifest Destiny lasted politics and the government changed along

There were many events that led to the cause of one of America’s most devastating war, the American Civil War. The American Civil War was an unfortunate war that cost more than the lives of six hundred thousand people. Events such as the Missouri Compromise, Kansas Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, and the Election of Abraham Lincoln resulted in the four yearlong battles between the Northern and Southern states due to social and economic differences on the idea of slavery. In the 19th century,

Diplomacy of the Civil War” by Howard Jones. While I have studied the civil war in high school history class, my studies focused more on the actual war and its outcomes, rather than the tension leading to the outbreak of war. The book focused on the role of Abraham Lincoln on civil war diplomacy along with how the events specifically regarding slavery through the 1850’s contributed to the increase of sectionalism and the outbreak of the Civil War. I focused my reading on examining the role of slavery in