Essays on American Civil War

Introduction 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…

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…

Introduction 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…

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…

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…

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…