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There is no argument that the naval contributions to the American Civil War are largely ignored in Civil War history books. James M. McPherson’s War on the Waters: the Union and Confederate navies gives us a view of both the Union and Confederate Navies and explains both their organizations and the government involvement into the departments. McPherson makes a point that the Union Navy deserves more credit for Northern victory than it initially received. McPherson mentions both Grant and…

John C. Breckenridge. National (Southern) Democratic Platform. Adopted at Charleston and Baltimore,1860. Print. Summary of Source: In 1860, from Charleston and Baltimore, the National(southern) Democratic platform presented their resolutions to the people of America. They believe that the new territories admitted to the united states should allow the people to vote whether or not it will become a free state or a slave state. The people were also allowed to settle into these new…

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps this nation’s most successful and most beloved president, according to a poll taken in 1997, in which he was rated first out of every other U.S. President up to that point. “Seven hundred nineteen professors, elected officials, historians, attorneys, authors, etc. participated in the poll and rated the presidents. The categories in which the various presidents were rated included leadership qualities, accomplishments and crisis management, political skill, appointments…

We thought the American Civil War to abolish slavery, but slavery was not the most fundamental causes of the Civil War. In a sense, the American Civil War is a continuation of the American War of Independence, was the third American War of Independence. North America, the newly independent southern states is independent of the main force, they have a greater number of people and states. This makes North America after independence, is a considerable period of time. The South has an overwhelming…

Throughout the early and mid-1800s, sectional tensions arose throughout America. Sectionalism, or the loyalty to a particular subsegment of the Nation, rather than loyalty to the United States as a whole, was a pervasive characteristic of this period. Many factors contributed to these sectional tensions, however, the most divisive factor among the parties was the controversy over slavery. Slavery during this time was largely well-accepted in the South, but typically denigrated in the North. When…

The one real cause of the civil war was slavery, but there were three other pseudo-causes of the Civil war that are dependent on slavery. The cause of the civil war was slavery because with just slavery the war would have happened anyway. If we put the three other causes in the same trial, it would not cause the war.These causes are tariffs,states rights, and sectionalism, and they are dependent on slavery. First on our list, the tariffs were dependent to slavery because slavery made the…

Intro The American Civil War forever changed the face of a divided and troubled nation. The citizens of the United States turned against each other between the years of 1861 and 1865. The division between the Union and Confederacy involved issues from political and military, to economic and other major events. The significance of the Civil War was recorded not just through great politicians and generals, but also through the words of soldiers, wives and most importantly the former slaves.…

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—is a region of the United States of America. The South does not exactly match the geographic south, but is predominantly located in the southeastern corner; Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part of the Southern United States, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863,[2] commonly is.[3][4][5] Some scholars…

The Civil War was fought in the years 1861-1865. In simplistic terms the primary causes of Civil War were the differences in opinions about the issue of slavery, and politics about that same issue. Another undying cause of the Civil War was the insistence by the North for the strengthening of the Federal Government. Infrastructure was needed in areas where there was industry, and the Northerners knew this could only be achieved by a strong Federal Government. The South, on the other hand, lived…

Explain the reasons southern states seceded and created the Confederacy. Examine political, social, and economic events. In 1860 a political party was created in the United States, also known as the Union. This was invented to avoid withdrawing slavery. The North and South states had different viewpoints. The North believed that slavery should be abolished, however the South did not agree. The Southern lifestyle was based around slavery. The southern states ended up leaving the Union in 1861…