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Secession and Civil War
What you should keep in mind is that the Civil War did not emerge out of a vacuum but instead represented the culmination of a longer history of internal turmoil and escalating tensions, stretching...
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Secession and Civil War
Two of the most important long-term effects of the Civil War were a boom in industrialization and the eventual creation of a more democratic and just America. The Civil War, of course, ended...
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Secession and Civil War
1863 can be seen as the turning point of the Civil War in both military and political terms. Militarily, this was the year of the battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Gettysburg broke a...
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Secession and Civil War
In many abolitionist circles, there was concern that a small number of Southern slaveholders were already dominating the national political landscape. Many Whigs pointed to the Mexican War as...
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Secession and Civil War
The American Revolution was, in a sense, a type of civil war, as the American colonists were considered British Citizens who seceded from their own country. The American Civil War was similar, in...
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Secession and Civil War
The North held immense advantages over South in the Civil War with the exception of leadership until Ulysses S.Grant took control of the Army of the Potomac. The advantages were: an immense...
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Secession and Civil War
The roots of secession lay in the Southern plantation owners' fear that slavery would be abolished in the United States. They felt as though the nation was too culturally different for the North...
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Secession and Civil War
When the Civil War began, both the North and the South has goals for the war. Those goals weren’t identical. The North has several goals in the Civil War. These goals included conquering the...
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Secession and Civil War
The main impact that I can think of with regard to this question is that the Civil War helped to cause conflicts between Indians and the United States. The Civil War, of course, took up a lot of...
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Secession and Civil War
There were so many reform movements, including religious and social movements, in this era that the early nineteenth century is often called the Age of Reform in American society. Two notable, and...
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Secession and Civil War
Without a doubt, the issue of slavery was the underlying cause of the Civil War. However, for many people it was not the moral issue of slavery that was at stake, but rather its political...
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Secession and Civil War
The most important technological advances were those that were related to railroads and perhaps agriculture. These were the advances that made the industrialization of the post-Civil War period...
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Secession and Civil War
The war US Civil War became a war for black freedom mainly through Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which he put forth as an executive order on January 1, 1863. The proclamation changed...
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Secession and Civil War
Popular opinion in the North and the South held that the war would be short and relatively bloodless. Northerners thought southerners would quickly capitulate when faced with overwhelming force,...
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Secession and Civil War
There are two main reasons why Atlanta was a particularly important goal for the Union in the Civil War. First, it was the main industrial center for the Confederacy. It had many factories and...
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Secession and Civil War
There were many factors which played a role in shaping the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War, and I'd hesitate to winnow things down to just three. However, for the purposes of this answer, I'd...
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Secession and Civil War
The immediate cause of the Civil War was the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate batteries in April of 1861. This led Abraham Lincoln to issue a call for troops to crush the rebellion, which in...
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Secession and Civil War
The North won the Civil War for three main reasons. The North had more resources. The Civil War was a modern war in that it was won largely by economic forces. It was a war that relied on...
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Secession and Civil War
The American Civil War was the culmination of more than a century of debate in the United States regarding the institution of slavery. An abolitionist movement comprised primarily of Quakers...
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Secession and Civil War
I would argue that Civil War was inevitable, the reason being that it was the only viable way of resolving the issue of slavery once and for all. A number of compromises had been tried in the past,...
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Secession and Civil War
The North and the South went to war for very different reasons. The South started the actual war and then the North chose to fight back. The South went to war in order to be able to rule...
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Secession and Civil War
From a technological standpoint, the Confederacy had more disadvantages than advantages. A major disadvantage, particularly relevant in warfare, was the lack of industrial capacity. The South had...
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Secession and Civil War
The main reason why the South lost was because it lacked industry. The South's economy was built on cotton, not on factories. Therefore, it was not nearly as able to manufacture the things it...
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Secession and Civil War
The war to save the Union became the war to end slavery mainly through Abraham Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Before that, individual Union commanders had taken steps against...
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Secession and Civil War
The roots of this crisis ultimately can be traced back to the dramatic territorial expansion which the United States underwent in the 1840s, along with the rapid growth of California, which, even...
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Secession and Civil War
Some of the most significant problems that both the Union and Confederate sides had to contend with during the Civil War were the rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental circumstances...
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Secession and Civil War
Despite its much smaller population—9 million to the North's 23 million—the South began the Civil War with an army almost equal in size to that of their Northern opponents. Not only that, but...
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Secession and Civil War
A full answer to this question would depend on which soldier you asked at which time in the war. Generally speaking, soldiers in the Union Army tended to say that they were fighting to preserve the...
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Secession and Civil War
It is possible to give a variety of answers to this question. Over the years, scholars have answered this question in different ways and it is impossible to know which answer your instructor...
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Secession and Civil War
One of the many factors that led to the American Civil War was the debate over whether states had the right to secede from the Union as defined in the Constitution. The South argued that slaves in...
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Secession and Civil War
Basically, the issue here concerns whether the things that Lincoln did were justified by the fact that there was a war going on. There were a number of things that Lincoln did that would surely...
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Secession and Civil War
The Civil War may have been inevitable even before 1854, but a law that was passed in that year made the war even more likely to happen. That law was the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Before the...
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Secession and Civil War
Like any two generals (or any two people in any profession), Grant and Lee each had their own strengths and weaknesses. It is possible to identify these strengths and weaknesses relatively...
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Secession and Civil War
As is often the case with "to what extent" questions, the answer to this is "to some extent." In other words, the developments that happened between 1860 and 1877 were a revolution in some ways,...
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Secession and Civil War
African Americans played an important role in the Civil War. At the very beginning of the war, African Americans weren’t allowed to fight for the North. However, that changed, and by 1862, 10% of...
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Secession and Civil War
Arguably the most significant legacy of the Civil War at that time was the issue of racial equality. At the turn of the century, millions of African Americans in the South were systematically...
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Secession and Civil War
The primary advantage that the North had over the South was manufacturing capability. The North had already had an industrial revolution and had the ability to produce better weapons and more...
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Secession and Civil War
Most historians would agree that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War, because the issue of slavery lay just beneath all of the more specific issues that led to secession. After the war,...
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Secession and Civil War
Prior to Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, the southern states had already threatened to secede. The southern states were not ready for a Republican president especially one who raised serious...
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Secession and Civil War
There are two reasons why Americans stopped trying to reach compromises to resolve their political disputes. (I assume you are talking about the issue of slavery.) First, they had tried various...
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Secession and Civil War
The two-party system does not seem to invite compromise. At that point in our political history we had more parties involved, and more compromise possible or at least attempted. Two ideologically...
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Secession and Civil War
There are at least two reasons for which you can say the Union “needed” to resupply Fort Sumter. On one level, you can say the Union needed to resupply the fort because the fort was in Southern...
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Secession and Civil War
Great question. One way to answer the question is to say what happens in America is important to the rest of the world. This is because of globalization. In the 19th century this was not as...
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Secession and Civil War
This is, to some degree, a matter of opinion as we cannot accurately measure the amount of federalism that existed before and after each of these events. My own view is that the Great Depression...
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Secession and Civil War
The South had some geographic advantages in the Civil War. One of those advantages was that the South knew the land very well since most of the fighting was in the South. The South knew the lay of...
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Secession and Civil War
The North had a number of advantages over the South. First, the North was a country recognized by other countries of the world. It would have an easier time getting loans from other countries...
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Secession and Civil War
In the 1830s, South Carolina responded to the tariff in two ways. First, they asserted that they (and other states) had the right to nullify laws made by the national government. Second, they...
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Secession and Civil War
Charles Sumner's views on Bleeding Kansas created conflict because they inspired Sumner to make a speech on the Senate floor in which he bitterly criticized some Southern senators. A member of the...
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Secession and Civil War
Vicksburg and Gettysburg were two crucial Union victories that were made even more important because they occurred just days apart in July of 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi occupied bluff atop a bend...
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Secession and Civil War
Lincoln had a very significant reason for imposing martial law on the state of Maryland. When Virginia seceded from the Union, Maryland became a very important state for the Union. Since...