The War During The American Civil War

A Civil War is a battle between the same citizens in a country. The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the independence for the Confederacy or the survival of the Union. By the time Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1861, in the mist of 34 states, the constant disagreement caused seven Southern slave states to their independence from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, generally known as the South, grew to include eleven states. The states that remained devoted to the US were known as the Union or the North. The number one question that is never completely understood about the Civil War is what caused the war. There were multiple events that led to the groundbreaking, bloody, and political war.

Abraham Lincoln once stated “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln is a hero for the citizens of America because his determination and courage to ending slavery even if it meant war caused peace in this nation. Slavery was the vital cause of the American Civil War. The north and the south both had their differences on how to run the country. People in the North believed in unity and that slavery should not exist because “all men are created equally.” On the other hand, the South believed in continuing slavery. People tried to talk it out and come to a middle ground after both sides compromising, however that didn’t work and caused war. Ideological differences were a vital role to making the American Civil War an inevitable event.

​The German U-Boats were like a submarine that was a lot more advanced than those that were built by other nations; and they were the first submarines made by the Germans. The U-boat was 214 feet long, it could carry 35 men, and 12 torpedoes at a time. And it could travel underwater for 2 hours at a time. With these Germany had a lot of success against the British warships. (https://www.britannica.com/technology/U-boat)

The war produced about 1,030,000 casualties, including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease, and 50,000 civilians. The war accounted for roughly as many American deaths as all American deaths in other U.S. wars combined.

When the American Civil War began in the spring of 1861, those flocking to enlistment stations in states both north and south chiefly defined their cause as one of preservation. From Maine to Minnesota, young men joined up to preserve the Union. From Virginia to Texas, their future foes on the battlefield enlisted to preserve a social order, a social order at its core built on the institution of slavery and racial superiority . Secession had not been framed by prominent Southerners like Robert Toombs as a defensive measure to retain the fruits of the revolution against King George, a fight against those who sought to “intrique insurrection with all its nameless horrors.” (Toombs Speech) On January 1, 1863, when Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect the war became a revolution. The Union, the soldiers in blue fought to preserve could no longer exist. On every mile of soil, they would return to the Stars and Stripes from that moment on, the fabric of society would be irrevocably changed. In May of 1865, with the abolition of slavery engrained into the Constitution with the passage of the 13th Amendment, the Confederate armies of Lee and Johnston disbanded, and Lincoln dead of an assassin’s bullet; this change was the only certainty the torn fabric of the newly reunited states was left to be resown. Andrew Johnson and Southern Democrats believed the revolution of 1863 had gone far enough. Radical Republicans and African-Americans sought instead to bring it to

During the 1860s there were many issues and that the Southern and Northern states needed to work on. In 1861 hundreds of thousands of Americans volunteered to fight in the Civil War, also known as the First Modern War. The main causes of this war were the economic and social differences between the North and the South. These differences led to other fundamental issues such as slavery and its abolition. In addition to that as the war was coming to its end, federal authorities found themselves presiding over the transition from slavery to freedom.After the war, there was a 12-year period best known as the Reconstruction and the main goals that it had were to get the Confederate States back into the Union, to rebuilt the Southern economy

On May 7th, 1915, the Lusitania, a British oceanliner, was sunk by German submarines, killing 128 Americans. Americans were outraged as they read the headlines in their newspapers, such as the New York Times, who wrote that over a thousand passengers were dead (doc 5). However, yellow journalism is extremely prominent in that article, as the writers over exaggerate claiming that a grave crisis is at hand, and fail to mention that less than 150 of the dead were Americans and the fact that the Lusitania was armed heavily, as many historians claim. When the Sussex, an English Channel ferry, was torpedoed in 1915, America was fed up with unrestricted submarine warfare, and made Germany promise to cease their attacks on ships, leading to the Sussex Pledge being issued on May 4th, 1916. In the pledge Germany promised they would no longer target passenger ships, and that merchant ships wouldn’t be sunk without the presence of weapons being established and the safety of all passengers and crew. (doc. 9) Nevertheless in both the case of the Lusitania and of the Sussex, America was not the target of the attacks and America never gave unrestricted submarine warfare a second thought until Americans died or came close to dying, showing that the United States only cared about the war when America was involved. Americans were also warned against traveling around the English

Submarine Warfare- Another reason why America intervened in the first World War, is the “sink on sight” policy the British made. Britain sank any boats anywhere near Britain.

The navy expanded during the war in order to respond to increasing threat of the German U boats*

The battle of Cantigny was the first battle that America ever fought in World War I. On May 28th, 1918 America fought against German soldiers and won. The battle of St Quentin Canal was between American, Germany, Australian, and British forces. Germany ultimately won that battle as a victory.A new invention in the time of World War I was the U Ship. This was a German submarine that patrolled trade routes of many countries. On May 7th of 1915 a civilian ship was sunken by one of the German submarines. The Lusitania, the sunken ship, held about 1,200 passengers. Of that amount 128 were American, this was a major event leading up to America joining into the World War as many Americans wanted to avenge that devastating lose. The Zimmerman Note

In 1915, the United States was challenged again, as Germany kept using submarine warfare on

On the same year(1915) in November another ship was sunk by U-boat it was an Italian Liner it got attacked without warning. Again Americans drown in this ship more than 25 Americans died out of 270 or more people on board. U.S. citizens started to go against the Germans and this wasn't irreversible. On January 31,1917 Germany declared that they will use restricted warfare in war zone waters. “Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American ship Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat,”(History.com). The United States were ready for war on February 22 after the congress passed $250 million arms appropriation bill. The president declared war on Germany after they sunk four more U.S. Merchant ships. “On April 4, the Senate voted to declare war against Germany, and two days later the House of Representatives endorsed the declaration. With that, America entered World War

Therefore as expected the submarine played a vital role on each side of the war. Also known as the U-boat in Germany, the submarine was invented by the Germans and came out to display in the First World War. It would dramatically not only favored the Germans but drastically changed the way war at sea would be fought. Submarines or U-boats would sink into the deep shallow waters of the ocean and would not be even detected by anything. They would surprise any strong enemy battleship and surprisingly attack it. Enemies would not know what was attacking them. The submarine was a great advantage until the radars, sonars, convoys, and anti-submarine weaponry came. The radars and sonars would immediately detect any submarine thousands of miles away. Therefore, there was not going to be a surprise anymore. The enemy was more than ready to surprise the enemy that was going to surprise them. This balanced out the way naval warfare was fought. Now no one had an advantage over the other. However the submarine was an invention that was used during this time period that would eventually start the change in how war was going to be fought at

Since WWI to WWII, the German U-boats have always been forced to continually developing and improving to keep up with the pace that the wartime needs. During the Battle of the Atlantic, the German U-boats sank approximately 2, 779 ships with a total weight of 14.1 million tons in Operation Drumbeat. The German navy’s decision to focus on escalating the usage of U-boats in WW2 allowed them to gain tactical advantage and gain a great success against Allied convoy by destroying the Allied convoys’ ships. The German navy were able to destroy the Allied convoys with the usage of the u-boats, by using the three tactics called the wolf pack attack, the surfaced attack, and the gun deck attack. Hence, in this essay, you will understand how the increase

Submarines were effective and best known for sneaking on the enemy. They were lightly armored and served as easy prey if discovered. It also had small crew numbers which made it hard to take prisoners from captured steamships. Despite these reasons, the Germans were non reluctant to break the international rules of warfare. The Germans attacked and sank the British passenger ship carrying American civilians on board. The American people were in disbelief and accused Germany of violating international rules. However Germany disagreed to the accusations.