What Was The Importance Of Education Before The Civil War

One of the key factor contributing to the Civil War was States Rights. This refers to the struggle between federal government and individual states over political power. One side argued for greater state’s rights and those arguing felt that the Federal Government needed to have more control over states. The states felt they should have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. Meaning that states had the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. When nullification would not work and states felts that they were no longer respected, they moved towards secession from the Union. The southern people were viewed as democratic and depended slaves for the plantations, they were devoted to agriculture and shipped cotton up north and favored low tariffs.

The American Civil War and the American Revolution had some distinct similarities, but their reasons for war and their outcome could lead one to think of the Civil War much like a second American Revolution. During the eighteenth century, America became very diverse with the growth of the colonies.

The antebellum era exposed the entirely different views and ways of life between the North and the South. These differences can be observed on the economic aspect. The North was industrialized enabling them to have functioning economy without the use of many labors; however, in the south, people relied on agriculture, and thus they needed a large number of slaved labors to help them work on the plantations. Such difference led to the main distinction which existed throughout the entire Civil War, the dependence on the slavery. These differences sparked conflict between the North and the South placing them in an indisputable position, eventually leading to the Civil War. The prosecution of the Civil War of North and South differed drastically. The North fought to preserve the Union which entailed abolishing slavery, enlisting the black in the army and also paying them proper wages, and the South fought to withdraw and preserve slavery and their agricultural lifestyle. These conflicting views did not disappear after the war. Although the North won the Civil War, they still wanted to unify the country, not only territorially, but also economically and politically by enforcing many new laws and amending the Constitution. And the South, even after the abolishment of slavery, people in the south remained hostile toward the freed people, saw themselves more superior than the freed people, and tried to resurrect the “Old South”.(192~198) To achieve the real union and realize the

     In the later 1700’s to 1863, slavery was an intricate part of the South. Slaves were needed for plantation work like planting, caring for, and harvesting crops to maintaining the land. After

When examining defining moments in history, one must first analyze what led to the central event. In this case, one sees that the years following the American Revolution were very important to the historical timeline. During the 19th century, two regions with very different beliefs strongly contradicted each other. This

The Civil war was the most momentous and crucial period of time in the history of America. Not only did this war bring an end to slavery but also paved way for numerous social and political changes. The country had already been torn by the negative trend in race relations

The Southern states built their economy on slavery and plantations. Southern states believed in states rights, they didn’t want the government to be in charge because they would have to give up slavery if the government was in charge. The South decided to leave the union to keep slavery and became the confederate states of America. If the state was in charge then they could keep and extend slavery. They argued that each state has a right to leave the union (secede). The South would shatter without slavery, it was the most important part of their

Since the establishment of the New England and Chesapeake / Lower South colonies, there had been significant differences between these regions such as overall wealth, economic structure and industrialization, ideal government, and usage of slavery. Leading up until the Civil War, the North had grown into a semi-industrialized, diverse economy

Economically, the Civil War was not a contest between equals. The South had no factories to produce guns or ammunition, and its railroads were small and not interconnected, meaning that it was hard for the South to move food, weapons and men quickly and over long distances. In addition, though agriculture thrived in the South, planters focused on cash crops like tobacco and cotton and did not produce enough food to feed the southern population. The North, on the other hand, had enough food and enough factories to make weapons for all of its soldiers. It also had an extensive rail network that could transport men and weapons rapidly and cheaply. At first, this superiority of the North didn't seem to make much of a difference; like many wars

Because of this, those four states have the most availability for blacks to invest their time in finding other jobs, or in this case, going to school. In the south, besides in Louisiana, Blacks hardly have the ability to educate themselves. Most blacks, gain their freedom by escaping to the north, because if they left their plantation, they risked being caught, severely punished, and branded a runaway. The freemen who gained their freedom by being emancipated by their previous owners, went to the north with a similar fear, a fear of being mistaken as a runaway just by merely fitting the profile of any runaway slave advertisement, or even by being captured by a slave trader. The few blacks who do stay after their emancipation and received some sort of inheritance from the will of their dead slave owner stayed in the south to buy their loved ones and relatives they left behind or that were taken from them in order to give them their true freedom, or at least the most realistic freedom available to them at this time. The reason the miniscule amount of black in the south did not attempt to strive for a greater education, is due to the fact that they had more on their plates, such as running their own plantations in order to gain enough money to buy back their family’s freedom and their passage to the north. Because of the lack of work available to blacks in the North without plantations, blacks lived in small communities within their separate metropolitan areas, mainly living in ghettos where everybody is fighting to keep a job and/or a roof over their head. Because of the fact that most states prohibited African Americans any public contact with white americans, African American children were not allowed in white public schools in the North. So while these black

The economy of the South depended primarily on slaves. Its settlers had plantations of cotton, which was very profitable at that time, but they needed a cheap labour force to work their lands (slaves). Living in the South meant either having a lot of money to invest on lands (for crop plantations) or working in the only available jobs, which were done by slaves. Since not everyone was able to afford high

The American Civil War was a war fought within the United States of America between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) The war was one of the most critical events in American history. “It is estimated that 623,000 soldiers died during the Civil War”(Garrison) starting from 1861 and ending

The outburst of the Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation. At first, it began as a fight to protect the Union, not as a struggle to free the slaves. Many citizens from the North and South felt that the conflict would ultimately decide both issues. Slavery was one of the primary issues which physically divided the northern U.S. from the Southern U.S. during the Civil War. Even after the Reconstruction Era it continue to divide the two. The Southern resistance to ending slavery was the main reason as to why the South believed in rejecting outsider ideals and it helped establish the Southern Code of Honor that emphasizes aggression and violence.

Prior to Civil War, distinct Northern and Southern cultures were established; North strengthened on industrialized commercial area and the south reinforced with an agrarian agricultural area. Racism ran rampant in the Civil War and sectioned off everyone into their different groups and cliques. The north was more industrialized and didn’t really need slaves. But the south was around about 80% farmland so the south needed slaves to profit from their massive amounts of land.

warfare. Since then, all public sectors including the Department of Education were looted and demolished. The country fell into two decades of no functioning government. The public Schools were either left unfunded, or turned into a private schools/Colleges where individuals from the community stood to fill the educational vacuum that was created by the civil. This was a positive step taken towards rebuilding the education sector. However, it wasn’t easy for everyone like my mother to raise and educate me, since my father was killed in the war. The high school tuition was skyrocketed, but my mother worked hard and determination, and my passion towards education paid off.