Origins of the American Civil War

A simple man from Kentucky taught himself how to read and write, became a lawyer and eventually President. He divided the country and united it again. In one term he built the roadway to rights for African Americans that would eventually become The Civil Rights Movement. This simple man from Kentucky is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President of these United States. Lincoln was a firm believer in equality and that just as it says in the constitution “all men are created equal” as visible in his…

with the cultural rebirth in Europe during the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. However, from the 1830s to the 1850s, the progression of American literature seems to fit this description. Not only did the American Renaissance advance literature, but it also prompted advancements in democratization and individualism. The women of both the American and European renaissance had a remarkable impact on the nation’s progression and the progression of women in society. Moderate Fonte was a…

Before 1865 African Americans were kept against their will and treated like animals. The Civil War was the start of the dispute between states in the United States. The United States were split into the North and South because the North began to realize how awful slavery really is. African Americans were stripped of their rights, but the South did not care because they wanted slaves for their hard labor. As African Americans were still continuing with no rights, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th…

The Civil War was a battle of controversy and the interpretations of the Civil War remain contentious even today. The American Civil War represented decades of malevolence between the northern and southern states and their fights for what they valued. While many argue that slavery was the only cause of the civil war, others say that the Civil War was caused ultimately by disagreement in economic and political standpoints. Both are essentially correct. Slavery was in fact a main issue that…

plantations, but they realized the opportunity to work elsewhere gave them hope. The African Americans left the South for variety of reasons, firstly the low wages were a major factor in which the workers in the South were paid $.40 as a field hand and the workers in the North were paid $1.75 a day in some jobs (Mullane, 1993, p. 455). Secondly the North had become a hotbed for free slaves in which Chicago African American population increased…

On April 12, 1861 the Southern Confederate forces declared war on the Northern Union forces at Fort Sumner in South Carolina after opening fire for 36 hours. Over the next four years, until April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered after the capture of Richmond, VA, was a gruesome war between North and South. Issues of trade, tariffs, state rights, and most importantly, slavery, were all reasons behind the declaration of war. Over the course of the four years, about 2.75 million men four for…

As a country that prides itself with the idealistic notions of liberty, justice, and equality, the roots of America’s history deem otherwise. For centuries, an atrocious system of oppression was forced upon millions of African Americans. They were dehumanized, tortured, and murdered in ways that there are no words powerful enough to genuinely describe. As slaves cried and begged for freedom, the country based on democracy reared its ugly head and turned the other way, repudiating the very…

Lee was born in 1807, to a Revolutionary War Hero named “Light Horse Harry Lee.” Lee attended West Point University where he graduated second in his class, in 1829. Little did he know he would later fight against and with members of his class in the Civil War. In 1847, Lee served in General Winfield Scott 's army as the Chief Engineer of the main invasion army during the Mexican-American War. Lee proved himself a combat leader by working around challenges that seemed…

transgression based on race have been very prevalent throughout the course of American history. Since the American Civil War, freed slaves were put through the ruthless throes of the bitter American Public, and today’s modern African American citizens are still not immune to the microaggressions that remain through stereotypes and internalized racism. Throughout the whole of American history, black Americans…

The outbreak of the Civil War was brought on by a number of issues, acts and debates throughout the 1850’s and early 1860’s. However, the event that was the kickoff for these major turning events in history was the Mexican-American War. It was a national debate regarding whether slavery should enter the country, when the United States needed to determine what to do with the land they gained from the war. After the war, leaders in the 1850s began to compromise. Their compromises did nothing to…