Constitutional, Political, And Social Effects Of The Civil War

Throughout history there have been moments that shape our lives and the set of beliefs we have today as a nation, one of those moments is the civil war. The civil war is a pivotal moment in the U.S history which has impacted our constitutional, political, and social way of being. The civil war led to the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments and established vital key people in the confederate victory such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant in history. Although the civil war did not end racism on African Americans, it did end slavery and it opened people’s perspectives on slavery as viewing it as something morally wrong as well as the beginning for the revolution of equality and true freedom for all. It was the deadliest war
Their different political beliefs and social cultures expanded throughout their states often leaving them with disagreements on a variety of issues. These issues were mainly taxes, internal improvements, tariffs, and states’ rights versus federal rights. The Southern states had been the major source of income for the United States since the 1790s and the invention of the cotton gin only expanded the amount of slaves in the South to work in the cotton fields. Three fourths of the world’s cotton came from the Southern United States creating a rich and triumphant industrial revolution in the North centering on the mass production of cotton for international trade. Merchants grew rich as cotton production across the world as cotton was being spun, woven, and sold. Cotton had become the United States biggest export. Not only was the South benefiting from slavery but also the North, but in the 1850s the North awakened to the harsh reality of slavery with the unraveling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel depicted the lives of Southern slaves and the atrocities slaves endured, it especially impacted the citizens in the North creating a revolt against slavery. During the 1850s tensions arose between the South and the North because of social and political developments
The North had just started to fathom the injustices being committed against slaves while the South perceived slavery as the foundation of the United States and their basic rights as citizens. The argument of slavery led to the secession of the South from the union and initiated a war between the North and western states combating to maintain the union while the Southern states fought to become an independent state with its own constitution. The South relied heavily on the slave’s role as plantation workers and their whole financial economy was depended on slave trade and cotton production. Because the South were so dependent of slaves in their overall economy, the emancipation of slaves threatened their way of lives financially and socially. Although the North also benefited from slavery, they were not accustomed to slaves as the Southerners were. The South contained about 4 million Africans as slaves, although only a small amount of the people in the South actually owned