Civil War Dbq

The Civil War left Texas in ruins with slavery being abolished and African Americans being given rights. This changed the entire political and social structure. Farmers who relied on free labor as their main income suffered greatly. Since most of the battles were not in Texas they did not have to rebuild their infrastructure like other states.

Including the election and the instability of members of the Congress, the Kansas-Nebraska Act had major effects on the relationship between the parties and made politics even more unstable during this time. This act involved the “repeal of the Missouri Compromise and providing that settlers would determine the status of slavery in the territories” (Foner 479). This controversial act destroyed the balance between the free and slave states and led to the destruction of several political parties during this time. The Democratic party was divided because of this act and the more obscure Whig party “unable to develop a unified response to the political crisis, collapsed” (Foner 479). This left the two major political parties, the Republicans

With decades of brewing tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state’s rights versus authority, westward expansion and slavery. All the built up tension between the North and the South exploded into the American Civil War. The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired. They seceded because they thought their way of life was threatened by the elected president. Four years of brutal conflict were marked by historic battles. In the Civil War there was brothers against brothers and neighbors against neighbors who were all

The Civil War was not only a conflict between blacks and whites, it was more of a political power struggle between the industrialized and modernized states of the North, and the agricultural states of the South. The South, carried on, remaining a region of small towns and large plantations during this time, refusing to become industrialized as its flourishing neighbors up north had done. The agricultural, “Great Cotton Empire” depended on slave labor to keep their cotton dominant society alive and prospering. Senator James Hammond speaks on this topic before the United States Senate, March 4, 1858, commenting, “Cotton is king” ( Document D, Paragraph 3). Hammond is claiming that the southern states could be extremely profitable and successful

“The Union strategy to win the war did not emerge all at once. By 1863, however, the Northern military plan consisted of five major goals” (The Independence Hall Association, n.d.):

The American Civil War is remembered as the time when America began to have economic hardships, which also marked the creation of one of the most despised aspects of modern life, the federal income tax. The federal income tax was designed to help fund the Civil War and later became an income deduction for all American citizens to help fund government operations. In the years that followed, debates raged over the constitutionality of taxing individual income and how much each individual tax charges should be. Theoretically, all Americans should pay the different amount of taxes, but in reality all Americans pay the same amount of taxes. The poor struggle to pay taxes because they struggle to survive on a daily basis while the wealthy become richer. The wealthy should pay higher taxes because they have the resources, they benefit more from the government, and they can help reduce deficits.

As we take a look back on how American has become the nation we both love and hate, we cannot help but think of the Civil War. This war divided a nation and the outcome set the stage for how our nation still operates to this day. The issues between the North and the South, or as they become known back in 1861, The Union and The Confederate States of America, were not something that could have been negotiated. The war lasted four years and ended with victory for the North. I would have to say that I agree with Historians that believe the Civil War was inevitable. The type of conflict between the North and South was ultimately about money and issues like that most likely can never be solved peacefully and without bloodshed. This remains true even to this day considering how our current government handles similar issues. Many may argue that most conflicts can be resolved without conflict but my stance on this particular issue is that when it comes to money and people’s livelihood, no amount of talking can satisfy either side. The Civil War was inevitable because the South did not want to give up their slaves. The work the slaves did provided them with much wealth and in their eyes, opportunity for even more. The South’s profits came from primarily agriculture and the North had evolved and earned their means through industrial endeavors. Since the South was adamant on keeping slavery active, they were more than displeased when Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Lincoln was very open about being against slavery. Although, it wasn’t necessarily wanting to end slavery. He just wanted to stop the expansion of the practice. However, the South saw this as a threat and assumed abolishment of slavery would be the inevitable...

The Civil War gave birth to a new and different American Republic, to "a new birth of freedom" and a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" dedicated to "the proposition that all men are created equal." But it was a hard fought, bloody war, a tragic struggle between Americans. This book takes a critical look at the war itself and its leaders, for the most part from a tactical perspective, or how the battles were fought, but also from a strategic perspective, that is, why the battles were fought.

The American Civil War emanated feelings of joy, exuberance, and glory, yet it substantiated loneliness, destruction, and death. In the antebellum South, nationalism and pride forged a new path, and society saw soldiers as heroic actors and war as their stage. While these actors played out their roles, the audience, the world, could see that their stage did not make them heroes, but war deprived them of body and soul. In Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier develops this excitement and progression to hardship in both Ada and Inman’s journeys. The progression, corroborated by historical evidence, shows that while the antebellum South held a Romantic ideal of war, war itself negated the romantic opinion and became destructive, monstrous, and deadly.

America divided for one issue, slavery. Slavery caused America to not only divide North from South but also the people. Uncle Tom’s cabin had a big impact on slavery because the people of the North believed that the book taught them how slaves lived while the people of the south thought the book was untrue and made slavery worse. The Civil War was caused as a way to end slavery. The Civil War started from social changes, economic problems, and political reasons.