How Did The Civil War Make America Free
The American Civil War
Today, we think about America in one simple way, free. What most people don’t think about is, the hard-working, sweat-wiping soldiers that went through many obstacles making America free. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars that went on in America and it lasted for four years from, 1861 to 1865. “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the” Union and the Confederate States of America. “ When Abraham Lincoln won” the presidency in 1860, he ruled that slavery would be no more, but seven slave states in the South seceded and formed a new nation, Confederate States of America. The incoming administration for Lincoln “and most Northern people refused to recognize” that this had happened. …show more content…
Lincoln then called about “the militia to suppress this so called” “revolt.” After this “four more slave states withdrew and joined the Confederacy.” At the end of 1861, “nearly a million armed men” lined up, stretching “1,200 miles from Missouri to Virginia.” Many battles have “ taken place--near Manassas Junction in Virginia, in the mountains of western Virginia, where Union victories paved the way for the creation of the new state of West Virginia, at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, and at Port Royal in South Carolina where the Union navy established a base for a blockade to shut off the Confederacy's access to the outside world” (Mcpherson James …show more content…
Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia” held “off invasions and attacks by the Union Army of the Potomac.” The Union was commanded by ineffective generals until, Ulysses S. Grant came to be “the general chief of all Union armies in 1864.” After many bloody battles, “Grant finally brought Lee to bay at Appomattox in 1865.” After this, the Union armies won a series of battles against the Confederate armies. Shortly after this, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes. “In 1864-1865, General Tecumseh Sherman led his army deep into the Confederate heartland of Georgia and South Carolina.” Sherman and his army destroyed the Confederates’ economic infrastructure, meanwhile “General George Thomas virtually destroyed the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee” (Mcpherson James civilwar.org, McDougal Littell
Today, we think about America in one simple way, free. What most people don’t think about is, the hard-working, sweat-wiping soldiers that went through many obstacles making America free. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars that went on in America and it lasted for four years from, 1861 to 1865. “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the” Union and the Confederate States of America. “ When Abraham Lincoln won” the presidency in 1860, he ruled that slavery would be no more, but seven slave states in the South seceded and formed a new nation, Confederate States of America. The incoming administration for Lincoln “and most Northern people refused to recognize” that this had happened. …show more content…
Lincoln then called about “the militia to suppress this so called” “revolt.” After this “four more slave states withdrew and joined the Confederacy.” At the end of 1861, “nearly a million armed men” lined up, stretching “1,200 miles from Missouri to Virginia.” Many battles have “ taken place--near Manassas Junction in Virginia, in the mountains of western Virginia, where Union victories paved the way for the creation of the new state of West Virginia, at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, and at Port Royal in South Carolina where the Union navy established a base for a blockade to shut off the Confederacy's access to the outside world” (Mcpherson James …show more content…
Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia” held “off invasions and attacks by the Union Army of the Potomac.” The Union was commanded by ineffective generals until, Ulysses S. Grant came to be “the general chief of all Union armies in 1864.” After many bloody battles, “Grant finally brought Lee to bay at Appomattox in 1865.” After this, the Union armies won a series of battles against the Confederate armies. Shortly after this, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes. “In 1864-1865, General Tecumseh Sherman led his army deep into the Confederate heartland of Georgia and South Carolina.” Sherman and his army destroyed the Confederates’ economic infrastructure, meanwhile “General George Thomas virtually destroyed the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee” (Mcpherson James civilwar.org, McDougal Littell