American Civil War

By the end of the Civil War, there were 3,953,761 slaves in this country, 12.6% of the total US population. Can you imagine that?! These slaves started and stayed at rock bottom for their whole life, they were treated horribly and they were abused. African Americans used various methods to fight for their freedom during the Civil War such as passing information to the Union army and serving in the Union’s army. These actions affected the African Americas and the United States by helping the…

In 1875, the Civil Rights Act was established which strived for equal rights among all races and ethnicity however it wasn’t long until African Americans were once again seen lower than their white peers. In 1883, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional and this ruling meant that individuals and private organizations could discriminate racially as they please. This was because the Fourteenth Amendment says that States could deny any citizen equal protection of…

even in history is especially true of African American spies and particularly of women spies. When people think of a civil war spy, they imagine a male. Nevertheless, women played a huge role and were perfect because they were easily trusted and viewed as a non-threat. African Americans were also great spies because they had direct access to conversation as they were serving and cooking for both the union army and Confederates. However, during the civil war, most spies that were captured were…

the Civil War was if America was going to be a country of slavery. The South also known as the Confederate army were all the states that support slavery as they used slaves for their big agricultural fields. The North also known as the Union army were all the states that were against slavery, they believed African American are just as equal as a white man. With the country expanding both sides feared that the country will have more pro-slavery or anti-slavery states, this lead to the Civil War.…

The Civil War separated families and divided the country. Neighbors turned enemies, brothers found themselves at the opposite sides of the battlefield, and a once unified country tore apart at the hinges. Four years of war slowly glued the country back together, forcing the Confederacy back into the Union. As the Union began to win more battles, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that granted slaves freedom from servitude. At the end of the war, the southern half of…

fighting for a great cause, not only for your country but for your own race! African Americans fought for both the Confederates and the Union. Some of these African Americans were former slaves, others were African Americans who wanted to abolish (or get rid of) slavery. Over 180,000 African Americans served in the Civil War. Many however, were not recognized after the war ended. At the time when the Civil War occurred there were over 4 million slaves in the south. The Union fought to unite the…

Throughout the Civil War both African American men as well as women contributed towards the Union’s victory against the confederacy through the roles of fighting, spying, and nursing. Although the participation of African Americans within the war was controversial at first, the help acquired from fighting wars, spying, and even nursing was handy for the North and pushed the nation a step closer towards victory and success. The involvement of African American’s participation within the war was at…

Some may say that the status of African Americans changed drastically after the Civil War. Others may say that their status did not changed at all, for the way people view them, were still as bad as when they were enslaved. Brown addresses this issue of how African American’s interpretation of freedom was different than what their White Republican allies advocated it to be. Many of the freed black men and women had thought that being a freed person would solve all their problems, such as…

Some historians have argued that the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods constituted a second American Revolution because of the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods both opposed fighting for different lifestyles, they were both fighting for freedom, and they both had unresolved issues at the end of each war in which that were all huge conflicts in both of the groups constituting the second American Revolution. The American Civil War and Reconstruction periods both opposed…

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War Introduction The American Revolution and the Civil War are two wars that have shaped American history and the American society. The American Revolution started with 13 colonies forming the Continental Congress and declaring their Independence from the British rule in 1776 and ended with the Loyalists winning the Revolutionary War (as cited in Becker, 2013, p. 5). The Civil War was started when Southern states declared independence by seceding…