The Civil War of 1861-1865 and the beginning of the Reconstruction, abolished slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln during the war; while at the same time creating and maximizing the amount of tension and turmoil between the Union and the Confederacy for copious number of years after the war due to the fact that the eleven Confederate states were allowed to join back into the Union as long as they proved to the Union that all their hostile purposes and thoughts toward the Union have ceased.
The war between the years of 1861 and 1865, better known as the Civil War, began early in the morning on April 12th, 1861 when Confederate troops fired the first shots at the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter because …show more content…
This battle resulted in the Union soldiers evacuating the area and the Confederate troops capturing Fort Sumter. By this time, most of the Confederate states have already declared their secession from the Union, and up until this point there hasn’t been any shots fired from either side. With battles going on in the East and in the West between the Union and the Confederate soldiers, both sides continually perfected their available technology and their military strategies that they planned on using against one another. Although, the Union had a distinct advantage over the Confederate’s in the amount of resources that were available to them at any given time, and the total population in their control due to the Union setting up a naval blockade in the South to prevent any currency or resources to get into the Confederate territory and because by the time that the war broke out there wasn’t a national railroad gauge set up to allow trains to run on a different track if needed. The destruction of slavery during the war also known as the emancipation …show more content…
Confederates’ elected Jefferson Davis as their president of the Confederate States of America and he sought a peaceful separation from the Union and to make the Confederate nation more centralized, but he had trouble with his political flexibility and the ability to communicate the importance of the war to the ordinary men and women that followed him whole heartedly. Jefferson Davis formed his government in the Confederate capital in Montgomery, Alabama. The Confederate’s were able to keep the war going for four years until they ran into their own inner civil war within itself over the social change they were facing during the war, and the economic problems they faced which caused by the naval blockade set up by the Union and the borrowing of large amounts of currency to finance the
The war between the years of 1861 and 1865, better known as the Civil War, began early in the morning on April 12th, 1861 when Confederate troops fired the first shots at the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter because …show more content…
This battle resulted in the Union soldiers evacuating the area and the Confederate troops capturing Fort Sumter. By this time, most of the Confederate states have already declared their secession from the Union, and up until this point there hasn’t been any shots fired from either side. With battles going on in the East and in the West between the Union and the Confederate soldiers, both sides continually perfected their available technology and their military strategies that they planned on using against one another. Although, the Union had a distinct advantage over the Confederate’s in the amount of resources that were available to them at any given time, and the total population in their control due to the Union setting up a naval blockade in the South to prevent any currency or resources to get into the Confederate territory and because by the time that the war broke out there wasn’t a national railroad gauge set up to allow trains to run on a different track if needed. The destruction of slavery during the war also known as the emancipation …show more content…
Confederates’ elected Jefferson Davis as their president of the Confederate States of America and he sought a peaceful separation from the Union and to make the Confederate nation more centralized, but he had trouble with his political flexibility and the ability to communicate the importance of the war to the ordinary men and women that followed him whole heartedly. Jefferson Davis formed his government in the Confederate capital in Montgomery, Alabama. The Confederate’s were able to keep the war going for four years until they ran into their own inner civil war within itself over the social change they were facing during the war, and the economic problems they faced which caused by the naval blockade set up by the Union and the borrowing of large amounts of currency to finance the