Confederacy

Abraham Lincoln’s primary objective in the Civil War was to at all costs, preserve the Union. This meant that the Confederacy needed to be destroyed. A tactic employed by Lincoln to weaken the southern cause and give the northerners a huge advantage was the installment of the Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862 after the Battle of Antietam. This battle was significant in precipitating emancipation because of the amount of casualties it recorded. Over twenty thousand soldiers died in a…

On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended, the Confederates gave up their fight against the Union; thus beginning the reconstruction period in America. Much of the South was devastated over the loss of the Confederacy and they had nothing to rally behind or hope for. In 1866, Edward Pollard first coined the term, “The Lost Cause”, which helped many people who originated in the South cope with life after the Civil War and keep their faith belonging to the South. The “Lost Cause” left a glaring…

people in the process. It is seen as being ‘the ultimate manifestation of black radicalism’. This caused further tension between the north and south because states in the confederacy were made aware of the rising abolition movement and the threat it could pose to their society if it were to be a success. States in the confederacy viewed his actions as being one of a ‘mad…

The Confederacy and the Union both impacted the Civil War with the use of spies for things like battles, trading information, keeping lines open for communication and supplies, and swaying important people in Washington and Richmond to be on their side. Spies in the civil war had complicated systems used to get information across state lines, not to mention often risked their lives daily to not get caught, as if they were, they would be charged with treason and put to death. They were the…

of the Confederacy on April 9, 1865, many poor and hopeless individuals were left stranded only to remember a superior civilization brought down by greedy and selfish Yankees. The “Lost Cause” was the South’s way of spreading the word and ideas of slavery and the Civil War across the globe. People began to immortalize the ideas of the Lost Cause transforming the lives of both fallen and living soldiers across the Southern States. Organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy…

Plantation crops and the Southern Economy The South’s economy wasn't as strong as some people would have thought. Even with the money that the South made from their cash crops, there were 3 reasons why the economy was weak (Economy of the South 36). First, southern farmers mainly relied on tobacco, cotton, and sugar. These were also known as cash crops (Economy of the South 36). Second, since farmers didn’t pay slaves for their labor, their profits turn out to be falsely high (Economy of the…

The Civil War (1861-1865) between the Union and the Confederacy is perhaps one of the most significant wars in the history of the United States. In fact, the war would ultimately decide the fate of the Union and whether or not the United States would move together as one. With this important war, came an equally important document: The Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was developed in the third year of the Civil War to end slavery in all of the Confederate states for the…

fear of allowing the national government too much power and the ability to wage war upon its people and states. This ideal of only allowing the central government to be the mouth piece of the nation and not the sword as well deeply affected the Confederacies ability to defend external and internal threats. With the ever looming presence of the British on America’s doorstep, it would become apparent while drafting the Constitution that it would be necessary to allow congress the ability to raise…

confederation of states under its own formation. When the southern states decided to break away, or seceded, they made their own country which was called the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy. They wrote their own Constitution and even had their own president, Jefferson Davis. The Confederacy was made up of 11 southern states including South Carolina, Mississippi,…

The American Civil War was fought to meet the pending succession of the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America. The root causes of differences between the Confederacy and the Union were slavery and sectionalism. Sectionalism refers to playing the needs of one section of the nation over the nation as a whole. In addition to these differences geographical and economic development led to the sense of the nation as divided. The South saw their fighting as “rebuilding the…