Secession

In his book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, Thomas J. DiLorenzo questions validity of the revered symbol of emancipation that is Abraham Lincoln. Found within the pages of The Real Lincoln is a series of allegations towards Lincoln and his legacy. Throughout the work, DiLorenzo questions both the actions of President Lincoln’s Administration and the intentions. DiLorenzo claims that Lincoln used his power as the President of the United States…

liberty, the Confederacy that fought for liberty of Southern whites who believed they were being threatened by the rule of the North and the Union that fought for liberty given by their constitution which they believed was being threatened by Southern secession. Another reason as to why soldiers…

Through the birth of a young nation, sectionalist tensions among various issues sculpted and shaped the road to the Civil War. Factions between the North and the South arose due to a long-term conflict concerning the issue of slavery and competing ideas in several aspects of society. For the South, slavery shaped and impacted social, political, economical, and laboral facets of society. The South argued to obtain the right to slavery free from federal interference, while basing their argument on…

lack of top down strategic leadership and human resources management as well as Spenser’s deficit of transformational leader behaviors (Vera, & Crossan, 2004; Huang, Hsu, & Chiau, 2011). Tri-American did not employ a formal employee recognition and secession training program. This would suggest that Tri-American is not an adaptive and resilient organization poised to retain…

From vehement historian scholars to the general public, people have been entertained by the debated question that has been known all to well. Was the civil war about slavery? Indeed it was. There is no doubt the United States abolition of slavery was a notable excellent endeavor and admirable accomplishment that liberated America from the moral evils of feudalism. But to presume the notion that slavery alone was the preeminent cause of the United States civil war is not a complete fulfillment,…

territory. White southerners called the Civil War the "war between the states," or "the war for southern independence," even "the war of northern aggression." White northerners on the other hand called it the "war of the rebellion" or "war of secession" (McCARDELL). The key issues that caused conflict between the North and South…

It has been discussed fervently in many occasions whether slavery was the principal cause of the American civil war, also known as the Secession war. A bloody rift that took place from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America and that divided the nation in two opposite parts each one defending an ideology clearly opposed to the other’s, affecting at the same time the economic, political and social structures of the nation. Well, was the question of slavery at the heart of that ideological…

It has been discussed fervently in many occasions whether slavery was the principal cause of the American civil war, also known as the Secession war. A bloody rift that took place from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America and that divided the nation in two opposite parts each one defending an ideology clearly opposed to the other’s, affecting at the same time the economic, political and social structures of the nation. Well, was the question of slavery at the heart of that ideological…

of southerners worst fears was their slave rising up and rebelling against them. In this way, John Brown’s Raid symbolized what could happen if their fears came true. The raid also increased the divide between the Republicans and Democrats. The secession may not have ever been perceived without the raid at the forefront because the northern states did not allow slavery and the southern states did. This crucial issue was one of the main things that separated the North from the…

In Mark E. Neely, Jr.’s book, Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War, he offers his readers two notable as well as important contributions to the study of the American Civil War. These contributions consist of the attempt to compare and examine the constitutionality of the acts that were committed by both the Union and the Confederacy, the other contribution is that of the “nationalistic” interpretation of Civil War Constitutionalism that is…