Essays on American Civil War

The Emancipation Proclamation is a vital part of our nation's history, and it was a turning point during the Civil War Era of the United States. Lincoln issued the proclamation in order to free the slaves in rebel states, and this action also strengthened the Union. After the proclamation was issued, any countries that supported the Confederacy were seen to support slavery. Therefore, the countries that were strictly anti-slavery cut ties with the rebel states, and the power of the Union ...

During the Civil War, the Eastern theatre was made of the states such as Virginia and Pensylvania. The Western theatre was made up of operations, which were carried out in the coastal areas along the Atlantic ocean. Major campaigns were being undertaken at the Eastern theatre and the Confederate capital of the Richmond the state of Virginia. The surrender of Lee’s army brought about a major operation in the year 1865. There was a virtually complete Union military victory. Lee could have ...

Reconstruction, the process thought to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy, was destroyed. The answer to what is at fault for the ending of America’s efforts to reverse past mistakes, is, at the very least, debatable. 1865, the year the American Civil War finally came to an end, and marked the start of Reconstruction. During this time, actions were taken to protect past slaves and solve rising issues due to the abolished slavery, like The Freedmen's ...

The Civil War started because of uncompromising issues between the North and South the North wanted freedom for the slaves and the south wanted slavery because it was their way of life. The issue of free vs slave states went on for years. The differences between the free and slave state governments created an issue of declaring territories free or slave states when they were not a state. After the civil war, Lincoln prepared to reintegrate the south. But do it brought all the destruction the ...

The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws that were emplaced shortly after the American Civil War that applied for most of the public spaces in the southern states and created racial tension where African Americans were treated as inferiors. During these times, John and Alan Lomax went around recording southern folk music to preserve such music. For the project, I chose the songs Prison Blues, John Henry, and as the topic of African American music during the Jim Crow era. The first song, ...

In the process of forming the United States, we had to face many problems on financial, territory, but the problem of slavery can be said to be one of the darkest sides of American history. The disagreement of the government and the Americans on slavery led to a major contradiction of States and that brought the American Civil War in the 1860s. The main significant event that led to the Civil War was the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which created the law that balances the power between the ...

After the end of the American Civil War the United States had very little interest in foreign affairs in particular, President Woodrow Wilson vowed the Neutrality Act for the United States in the midst of an exploding World War in 1914. Most Americans preferred this position. However, Britain was one of United States big trading partners, and tension kept increasing between the United States and Germany over the attempted barricade of Britain. Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were ...

After the conclusion of the American Civil War and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, the remaining African-American slaves were freed from servitude. This freedom presented a somehow miraculously unforeseen logistical issue regarding the nature of what this now fully enfranchised population was to do. Realistically, there were two options available to freedmen at the time; either they stayed working in the agricultural realm or they journeyed northwards in hopes of a factory ...

According to Zinn, Foner, and the Biography of America, issues including slavery and liberty are the tensions that led to the start of the Civil War. The biggest tension between the north and south was slavery. During the prewar, there were new understandings of liberty according to Foner, “millions of northerners who had not been abolitionists became convinced that preserving the Union as an embodiment of liberty required the destruction of slavery.” (Foner, pg. 520) It was very obvious that ...

America went through ages of struggle and bloodshed to be what it is today. Although, we do come to realise after reading America’s history that certain events almost tore the country apart in the past but with the help of some committed leaders the country became stronger than ever. From 1861 to 1865 America was engaged in one of the costliest wars, The American Civil War. Also known as the war between the States. It was a war between the Northerners (the Union) and Southerners ...

What would America be like today if the civil war never happened? Would there still be slaves? Would there be two separate nations? Thankfully, Americans do not have to worry about those problems. The American Civil War did happen and it impacted a whole nation because of it. The Civil War brought about immense change, which was mainly good. Slavery got abolished, America became whole again, and new technological advances formed from the "new" nation. Negative effects also occurred, mainly ...

Around the 1820s and 1830s, decades before the American Civil War, a new way of thinking began to proliferate in the United Stated. Scientists, artists, writers, people questioning themselves about their behavior, beliefs and emotions, lead to the emergence several reform groups (such as anti-slavery organizations, religious movements and temperance leagues), many in which women participated in a prominently way. From the antebellum reform and particularly by the abolitionist movement, women's ...