How Was The Civil War Inevitable
The Civil War Was An Inevitable Event In American History
The Civil War was a nesscary war created by our own demise. As preivous mistakes of allowing slavery and compromise allowed a great nation such as the United States to have a nesscary war amongst each other to radacate it from its lands. This great issue can be traced back to the declaration of independence, three-fithts compromise, and as George Washington warned of political parties. This paper will show how the Civil War was an inevitable war for the greater good of the nation as a whole.
Slavery in American before it became the United States can be traced back to the early 1600s. As our lectures indicated slavery began as “Indentured Servitude” indentured servitude was a way for …show more content…
However, the Civil War did not start when that first cannon opened fire. It started with the men who had been entrusted with the greater good of the United States who failed to address slavery in the adopation of the declaration of independence and the constitution. As Alexander Stephens notes “This stone which was rejected by the first builders ‘is become the chief stone of the corner’ in our new edifice” (Stephens). This line and a half sentence relates the issue of slavery to a main building block of the United States that was ignored by the “first builders” or in other words the writers of the declaration of independence. However, this building block as Stephens called it was destroyed by the Emancipation Proclamation which was an executive order given by president of the northern states Abraham Lincoln. The order was issued on Jan 1, 1863. The order stated that all slaves were free including those that were being held in the southern rebellious states. The Civil War ended with the north wining a long bloody war and the reconstruction period set in. However, this period had a rough start as president Lincoln was assinatied by southern a loylastys named John Wilks Both. Both fatally shot Lincoln in the head during a play at Ford Theater and was later killed himself as union force tracked him
The Civil War was a nesscary war created by our own demise. As preivous mistakes of allowing slavery and compromise allowed a great nation such as the United States to have a nesscary war amongst each other to radacate it from its lands. This great issue can be traced back to the declaration of independence, three-fithts compromise, and as George Washington warned of political parties. This paper will show how the Civil War was an inevitable war for the greater good of the nation as a whole.
Slavery in American before it became the United States can be traced back to the early 1600s. As our lectures indicated slavery began as “Indentured Servitude” indentured servitude was a way for …show more content…
However, the Civil War did not start when that first cannon opened fire. It started with the men who had been entrusted with the greater good of the United States who failed to address slavery in the adopation of the declaration of independence and the constitution. As Alexander Stephens notes “This stone which was rejected by the first builders ‘is become the chief stone of the corner’ in our new edifice” (Stephens). This line and a half sentence relates the issue of slavery to a main building block of the United States that was ignored by the “first builders” or in other words the writers of the declaration of independence. However, this building block as Stephens called it was destroyed by the Emancipation Proclamation which was an executive order given by president of the northern states Abraham Lincoln. The order was issued on Jan 1, 1863. The order stated that all slaves were free including those that were being held in the southern rebellious states. The Civil War ended with the north wining a long bloody war and the reconstruction period set in. However, this period had a rough start as president Lincoln was assinatied by southern a loylastys named John Wilks Both. Both fatally shot Lincoln in the head during a play at Ford Theater and was later killed himself as union force tracked him