(675)Civil War Essay Questions:
(337)Essay 1: The foundation of the American Civil War was the increasing problem of slavery in the Antebellum South. In the early 19th century, the moral issue of human slavery clashed with the original motives of the Founding Fathers, which had sought to bring equality and freedom to all people—even African Americans. Slavery was a major issue for the North, which sought to eradicate the immoral enslavement of human beings as a negative consequence of colonialism in the United States. The second cause of the Civil War the moral activism through the Abolitionist Movements in the North that sought to end slavery as a major political and social movement. This was another factor in the historical timeline …show more content…
The Dred Scott Decision in 1857 formed another political barrier to freeing the slaves, since the North had far less political power to stop this type of legislation. Again, the pro-slavery Democratic Party possessed inordinate power to expand the power of slavery, which fueled preparations for war in 1861. These was the final legislative issue that drove the North and the South into direct all-out warfare due to irreconcilable differences on the issue of state’s rights, federal authority, and …show more content…
More so, Lincoln has effectively mobilized some of the effective leaders of the Union Army, such as General Ulysses Grant and General William Tecumseh Sherman to begin the long process of defeating the Confederate Army on southern territory. Although the war would rage on for two more years, the Union army was now an extremely efficient and powerful military force that would inevitably have to destroy the South to end the war. The consolidation of Lincoln’s war leadership was now in full effect and the South had to face the full might of the Union army I a defensive
(337)Essay 1: The foundation of the American Civil War was the increasing problem of slavery in the Antebellum South. In the early 19th century, the moral issue of human slavery clashed with the original motives of the Founding Fathers, which had sought to bring equality and freedom to all people—even African Americans. Slavery was a major issue for the North, which sought to eradicate the immoral enslavement of human beings as a negative consequence of colonialism in the United States. The second cause of the Civil War the moral activism through the Abolitionist Movements in the North that sought to end slavery as a major political and social movement. This was another factor in the historical timeline …show more content…
The Dred Scott Decision in 1857 formed another political barrier to freeing the slaves, since the North had far less political power to stop this type of legislation. Again, the pro-slavery Democratic Party possessed inordinate power to expand the power of slavery, which fueled preparations for war in 1861. These was the final legislative issue that drove the North and the South into direct all-out warfare due to irreconcilable differences on the issue of state’s rights, federal authority, and …show more content…
More so, Lincoln has effectively mobilized some of the effective leaders of the Union Army, such as General Ulysses Grant and General William Tecumseh Sherman to begin the long process of defeating the Confederate Army on southern territory. Although the war would rage on for two more years, the Union army was now an extremely efficient and powerful military force that would inevitably have to destroy the South to end the war. The consolidation of Lincoln’s war leadership was now in full effect and the South had to face the full might of the Union army I a defensive