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Secession and Civil War
This textbook does not explicitly say if anything could actually have been done to heal the sectionalism that was plaguing the United States in the 1850s. There were numerous attempts to mollify...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
The Civil War (1861–1865) was fought over the question of slavery. The slave states wanted to perpetuate and spread slavery. The North sought to stop it from spreading into new territories. The...
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Secession and Civil War
Explain why the Southern states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded from the Union.
The states listed in the question—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and Arkansas—voted to secede from the Union and form...
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Secession and Civil War
Building up to the start of the American Civil War was a century-long debate among the original thirteen colonies and, subsequent to the establishment of an independent nation comprised of, at the...
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Secession and Civil War
The issues between farmers, ranchers, and railroads mostly centered around the issue of fencing off the land. As more farmers settled in the Great Plains and the West, they were encouraged to...
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Secession and Civil War
From 1845 to 1860, a series of events occurred that led to the secession of eleven slaveholding states, and the outbreak of the Civil War. These events were all related directly to the issue of...
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Secession and Civil War
One important event that became a catalyst for the anti-slavery movement was the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It galvanized many in the North to demand the immediate liberation of all...
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Secession and Civil War
The event that caused the Southern states to secede was the election of Abraham Lincoln as the President of the United States. The presidential election of 1860 was held on November 6th. By...
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Secession and Civil War
The South had three main geographic advantages over the North at the outset of the Civil War. The South’s territory was quite large. This was relevant because the strategic situation dictated...
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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
The Civil War accomplished a few things. There was a great deal of discussion about slavery in our country prior to the Civil War. Some people wanted to keep slavery in existence. Other people want...
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Secession and Civil War
When faced with essay questions of this sort, your answer should almost always be something like “to some extent.” This is because these questions are typically meant to encourage you to see both...
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Secession and Civil War
African Americans helped to shape the course and consequences of the war during this time frame by helping to make the war and its aftermath be about them. The war was not necessarily going to be...
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Secession and Civil War
The absence of Southern members of Congress allowed the Northern Republicans (and Democrats) to act in the economic interests of the North during the Civil War. The main impact of this was to...
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Secession and Civil War
Some Southern states seceded right after Lincoln was elected because they felt that his election showed that they and their way of life were doomed. Lincoln had been elected even though he had...
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Secession and Civil War
Several interlinked factors in the 1850s accelerated the advance of the United States towards Civil War, a process that effectively began with the Nullification Crisis of thirty years prior. The...
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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
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
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
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 South...
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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
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 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 the...
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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,...