Origins of the American Civil War

1. The Civil War was very different from past conflicts. To start, African Americans played a huge role in the Civil War. For the North, African Americans were enlisted in the army and fought alongside other Americans, and for the South, African Americans slaves were “camp servants,” for their masters. The slaves would cook meals, raise tents, and carry supplies for their masters. There is actually a stretch to claim saying that not a single African American ever fired a gun for the Confederacy.…

Slavery was heavily relied on prior to the birth of the United States. The pro-slavery movement skyrocketed after the American Revolution considering many citizens were slavery supporters, simply because slaves were used to support the nation’s agriculture predominantly in the south. Slavery was widespread throughout Virginia and in the southern states. Americans capitalism fundamentally depended on slavery which caused a growth in the slave population. After international slave trade became…

Lincoln’s Role While liberated African Americans clearly played an enormous role in the American Civil War’s outcome, the extent to which the Union owed its victory to their contributions—compared to say, Abraham Lincoln’s political skillfulness—is debatable. James McPherson’s essay, "The Role of Abraham Lincoln in the Abolition of Slavery” argues that Lincoln was a “conservative revolutionary,” and while this description may seem like an oxymoron, it describes the unique shrewdness and…

At the dawn of the American Revolution, the idea of slavery was widely accepted throughout the country. With the possession of slave communities that dominated the United States 's industry, the colonies were able to produce immense quantities of goods such as tobacco, sugar, rice and cotton. By means of this enslaved African Labor force, the country was able to grow agriculturally and economically. However in the early 1800s both the United states and Great Britain began to abandon the…

The American civil war was a time of severe devastation. Pinning “brother vs brother”, this war destroyed not only the country’s landscape but also the relationships amongst many. However, from the ashes of this destruction rose heroes willing to fight for what they believed in; freedom. One of these heroes was a man named Newt Knight. Newt was a man who defended his beliefs till the very end, this being said he did not support the beliefs of those for whom he had been forced to fight. With his…

The Civil War split America in half. It tore apart families, and pinned Union soldiers against Confederate soldiers for four miserable, bloody years. The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in 1861, and ended with an undisputed Confederate victory in 1865. All in all about 630,000 people died and there were many thousands wounded. This bloody war was the mainly caused by the argument over slavery. The different aspects of the economies on either side led to different post war economies, which…

The 1960s witnessed a surge of Civil Rights movements aimed at improving the living conditions and social status of minorities in the United States. Within the African American community, a trend arose where youths rejected their cultural upbringing in favor of a perceived pure African way of life in order to further African American liberation – Cultural Nationalism. While the movement had many supporters, critics within the general Civil Rights campaign were not afraid to challenge the trend.…

every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This was the case with the period surrounding the civil war, a period characterized by revolutions, social, physical, and political. The pure scale of the actions and reactions in this period were what made it so revolutionary. The secession of the southern states was a revolution or against the Union, the reaction to which was the Civil War and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Reconstruction, when the North tried to determine how…

two minutes long and a mere 273 words, but is one the most respected, important and influential speeches in American history. This speech was given while one of the bloodiest wars in our nation’s history was still in full effect, the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was of course the commander and chief at this time. The Gettysburg Address successfully invoked the importance of the Civil war, in which many had sacrificed their lives in an attempt to preserve the principle of human equality and the…

The piece of writing this essay will review is an excerpt from the book, ‘God 's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race’. H.G Adams published this book in London in 1854. In the book Adams uses biographies of various black people, among other things, to argue that black and white people are equal, as well as discussing the anti-slave moment in America. Adams begins the book…