Civil War And Reconstruction Dbq Analysis

Raining bullets, charging enemies, fear, hunger, and impending doom. Who would put themselves under so much pressure? Why would Texans fight in the Civil War? After President Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, many Southern states saw trouble brewing. South Carolina was first, with Texas following as the seventh state to secede from the Union and form a new country, the Confederacy.

Reconstruction in 1865 through 1877 was terminated by Southern men due to their lack of acceptance of African Americans in restricting their political rights, not following the North’s precedence of equality, and the assassination of many a men by their ever so popular Klan. Reformation began after the Civil War which was fought over sectional differences and heavy slavery in the South. Southerns had always been pro slavery which contributed to their low treatment of African Americans as a whole. Once the South lost the War they could no longer legally enslave African Americans, but that did not change their persona in the eyes of the rich white men. Equality was a concept for white men according to the South, especially considering that

As the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery along the way more soldiers were added to the President’s army which he was the commander in chief of which would lead to victory. In the beginning of the Civil War the president viewed it as a way to make the Union a constant and it was not for freeing the slaves even though he clearly did not like the thought of slavery or better yet slavery itself but he was a noble man who wanted to abide by the rules of the Constitution. He also had his reasons for not doing anything sooner which was that he did not want the state's that were pro slavery to back out from supporting the Union. Overall the Emancipation had a huge significance towards the Civil

“Their (Mississippi, South Carolina, or Louisiana) framers intended and did disfranchise a majority of their citizenship [deprived them of the right to vote] because of “race and color” and “previous condition”..” [Doc. 7] This lead to the ratification of 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment protects the right to vote of the emancipated slaves as it says on the document, “the right to vote shall not be denied on the basis of race, color, or previous condition.” The aftermath of civil war, resulted with good economical changes. The slaves used to work on their master’s plantation. However, when they were freed they spread out and became independent.

This includes slaves, which is why it was so important in 1868 after the Civil War. But today, it also defines citizenship in immigrants and gives them the right to live and work in the US. If we didn’t have this amendment, we would not be able to experience the cultures of other countries, and we would not be known as “the melting pot” of culture we are today. With the power of the Fourteenth Amendment, we can define what makes a citizen, prevent anyone who took an oath against or conspired against the United States from holding any position of office in out government, allow states to make and change laws if necessary, and ensure that citizen cannot have the right to “life, liberty, and property” taken away from them without due

But the upper class didn’t like his ways. They considered him the devil. Jackson wanted to keep the union together and didn’t approve of the nullification. Andrew Jackson did not promote democracy well. This is true because he was not maintaining peace/stability and he was too strong of a leader.

Dred Scott was taken back into slavery and accused Sandford because Scott was in a free states and claimed that he was in the free state long enough to be a free slave. The Supreme court ruled against Dred Scott, this decision affected blacks preventing them to become citizens and an giving them the right to appeal to a jury and making it harder for a slave to escape because the free states didn’t make a runaway slave a free slave. The case also affected popular sovereignty. Where states got to choose if they were to be a free states or a slave

This was called the spoils system and it was a new idea that was very controversial. He ultimately put his supporters and friends into the power. It was part of the ideas of Jackson’s presidential party that every man can handle a government job. Although this seems okay at first, what if the next president just hired all white supremacists for government jobs? This proved to be the worst precedent that Jackson set.

coast. This militarism is an extension of martial law, which sought to prevent the South from autonomously trading with Europeans and to economically starve them into submission. More so, the development of Lincoln’s militarism expanded into building of a massive Union army, which was to work in tandem with the navy to return the Southern states to the Union. These aspects of executive powers define the overt militarism of Lincoln’s reaction to secession, which defined the undercurrent of tolerance in the Constitution for slavery. In this manner, the militarization of the U.S. government relied heavily on Lincoln’s presidential powers to enforce and aggressively avoid Congressional approval of acts, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, and the other aspects of legal authority through the

Andrew Johnson was impeached because he let some slaves free and become a citizen, and even vote. During the time of his presidency, white and black people were not equal and white’s didn’t like black people being among them and equal. Andrew Johnson was also impeached for other reasons also, but freedom of slaves was one of the main reasons. Bill Clinton is another example of an official being impeached. Clinton was impeached because he owed a lot of money and never payed it.

The South wanted to keep slaves while the North wanted to abolish them. In conclusion, the primary cause of the civil war was not slavery instead was the issue of states rights. The Northern armies won the Civil War and the the South returned to the Union. “The Civil War started because of differences between free slaves states and the power of the government that said if slavery was correct or incorrect.”(The Civil War in America Prologue). Slavery was right at that time but now it is wrong.

Civil war was one of the bloodiest and destructive wars in American history. It was defined as the war between the states. This war brought many positive and negative changes to America which resulted in many consequences. When Abraham Lincoln became the first republican president who was against the concept of slavery, many southern states separated and formed a new nation. Abraham’s promise was that he would not allow the United States to be broken down to small, squabbling countries.

The President Lincoln’s interest in the matter of reconstructions, articulated in action throughout the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, changed the congress’ sentiment of unity to defeat the South. The radicals, as they called themselves, disliked the President Lincoln’s plan due to two reasons. First, the ten percent plan was very moderate i.e. it did not satisfy the sentiment of the North to the South, and considered such a plan to be easy going in comparison to the outcome of Southerner’s rebellion. Second, the radicals could see Abraham Lincoln’s edge of admission intended from the proclamation.

The Mexican-American War was the start of the Civil War. After gaining land from Mexico, the South believed that slavery could spread throughout the West . The westward expansion caused problems on whether new territories and states in the West would permit or prohibit slavery, which became one of the main disputes that led to the Civil War in the