Secession

The increasing hostility between the North and the South, and ultimately secession of the South and the Civil War was unavoidable because both regions constantly bumped heads regarding slavery and states’ rights. When trying to decide how to resolve the issues, neither could produce an efficient and solid plan without offending each other. From proposing the Wilmot Proviso post-Mexican War to the election of Lincoln, the country was slowly slipping into an uneasy environment. The South…

1. In case a state is depriving people of the right to self-determination, then another state or all the other states have the right to request in accordance with the international rules to allow them to use their right to self-determination, since the accused state is obligated because the self-determination is a right and obligation towards all and no one should be deprived. No state should claim that if another state is supporting a referendum for self-determination, because it is not a…

“she (South Carolina) can defeat the execution of certain law of the United States… I say it is impossible that South Carolina ever desired for a moment to become a separate and independent state” (Document A). Clay displays his disapproval of the secession of South Carolina. He was very against the breakup of the Union. The Nullification Crisis lead to many debates about high tariffs and slavery, creating some sectional crisis in the United…

Lincoln’s view of the matter summarized the sentiment of the abolitionist states of the Union and the federal government that secession was illegal and nothing more or less than a rebellion and treason. I agree with their interpretation of the founding documents as vehicles of declaration of nationhood for all practical purposes for perpetuity and without any intent of ever dissolving this new union (nation) of states or providing a legal process for such action in the future. By Lincoln’s words…

But also, “he also gave little indication, even in private, that he was sensitive or sympathetic to the plight of free African Americans in the North” (Fredrickson 57). He also said, “prewar Lincoln was clearly a white supremacist” (Fredrickson 57). Lincoln thought that slavery was morally wrong but also knew that the Negro race would always be inferior to his race. All of this evidence brings us to the question, can a person who espouses a particular set of race-based views and uses racially…

Although slavery was thought of as being the only cause for the Civil War, the States’ Rights were also a main contributing factor. The States’ Rights were an ongoing struggle dealing with political power in the United States between the Federal government and the individual states. The term States’ Rights symbolizes the resistance of some states to federal laws. These states didn’t want to be controlled and experienced a lot of racial discrimination and segregation. They felt there were too…

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movement to recognize them as such, and to promote it. Stieglitz, during his years working with the Camera Work, became associated with many photographers experimenting with the pictorial tradition. In 1902, he created an exhibit he named "The Photo- Secession", where he presented the photographs by pictorialists whose works he published earlier in the Camera Notes, a predecessor to Camera Works. He believed photography possessed a unique aesthetic, which had been ignored for too long by…

Photography and the New God” was written by an American photography named Paul Strand. He began photography under the watchful eye of Lewis Hine in 1907. Hine introduced Strand to the work of the Photo-Secession. In 1911, he became an independent photographer and broke with the Impressionist style of Secession. Through his modernists theory, he helped to establish photography as an art form during the twentieth century. He is recognized as one of American greatest photographers along with…

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 the South would be re-formed, was another…