Essays on Civil War

A civil war is defined as a conflict between a non-state actor(s) and a state actor residing within the state’s territory. In civil wars, insurgents seek different objectives ranging from territorial succession to control of the central government. Insurgents emerge as opponents from outside the…

By the end of the Civil War, the new issue that emerged in Congress was what to do with the Confederacy. Many plans were proposed but teh one that was chosen planned to treat the South as a series of conquered territories. Each could be…

Introduction A long-argued debate among historians is whether the Civil War was inevitable or not, it can be seen as an ‘impending crisis’ or a conflict that could’ve been avoided if not for a ‘blundering generation’ of leaders. By examining the events leading up to…

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…

The Dispute Regarding Slavery and the Missouri Compromise With the vast amount of issues that arose after the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the need to create a new Constitution—one that served to preserve the Union and revised problematic aspects of the…

During the years of 1990-1994 thousands of people were killed in the Rwandan Civil War because of exacerbating tensions between the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority. The civil war started when Rwandan outcasts shaped a gathering called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and propelled a…

The person I had chosen is Nat Turner. I chose him because he was under the category of Slavery and the Civil War. I have to admit, nobody that’s listed in for Black History this month, had a good life. Since Slavery was a huge…

In Chapter Six, “Diagnosis: Freedom: The Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siècle Medical Research” from her book Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington analyzes how medical research and statistical data were manipulated back in the mid-1800s to the early 1900s to prove African American inferiority….

The Free State of Jones (TFSOJ) provides the viewer with an in-depth look at the American Civil War era, as well as some periods up until the reconstruction period. The film depicts various scenes in which it is evident the people of this period both…

Right from the end of the Civil war till the end of the First World war, there have been several forms of significant changes in various aspects of the nation. These changes, be they political, social or economic have played important roles in shaping the…