The battle of Fort Sumpter was important because it motivated the North to gather an army and begin fighting. It was a big mistake of the South not to allow the Union to bring supplies to the fort. Another important conflict was the ship Alabama, made for the Confederacy by Britain. Then Britain bought two battle ships that the South was building, to avoid starting a war with the North and having them invade Canada. The battle of Bull run is important because it led to the South being overconfident in their victory. The Seven Days Battle was significant because it demonstrated to the North and President Lincoln that total war against the South was necessary.…
Analyze the events leading up to the Civil War from the perspectives of both the north and the south. Be sure to discuss both on the eve of war in regards to politics, culture and economics.…
March 9, 1917 - Jan. 8, 2001. John Samuel Ezell was born in Louisville, Kentucky March 9, 1917. He was educated at Wake Forest College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1947. He served in the United States Naval Reserve forces during World War II, seeing combat as a Deck Officer on various ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, including serving as Captain of the minesweeper YMS 8. He was also a Beach master for the planned invasion of Japan. At the end of the war, he was made Historical Officer for the Third Fleet, for which he wrote the logistical history. He was made a David Ross Boyd Professor (1965) and he received numerous teaching awards, the Superior Teaching Award (1954), the Newby Teaching Award (1963), and the University of Oklahoma Student Association Teaching and Service Award (1986). During his academic career, he was actively engaged in re search, writing, and publishing on topics dealing with the social and cultural history of the American South and…
3.Due to the substantial differences between the North’s industrial economy and the South’s agricultural economy they both had distinct advantages and disadvantages during the war. To begin with, the North’s economy was far superior to the South’s because the North had two-thirds of the nation’s population, two-thirds of the railroad mileage, and almost 90% of the nation’s industrial output. Also, many of the North’s arm factories were equipped with mass production which allowed them to compete with the gun manufacturing centers and armories of the South. The Northern economy helped them have much greater supply of resources compared to the South. On the other hand, the Confederacy had slaves which helped provide food for the army and provide the most important good of all, cotton. The South was able to use cotton as diplomatic weapon which they thought they could use to persuade France or Britain to assist or side with the Confederacy. We can also see this as a disadvantage to the Northern economy because they had no such tool or weapon to use to obtain foreign assistance or aid. Unfortunately this same advantage for the South also led to a severe disadvantage. Because the majority of the people living in the South did not own slaves, they were not the ones producing cotton. This meant that the majority of the…
1. Until quite recently, most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect," as Mann puts it on page 4?…
Assignment 5: U.S. History to ReconstructionIn 1861 most Southerners thought that the Confederacy was favorite to win the war. The Confederacy’s sheer size – 750,000 square miles – was a major asset, making if difficult to blockade, occupy and conquer. Confederate forces did not have to invade the North: they simply needed to defend. The fire-power of the rifle-musket meant that battlefield tactics now favored the defender. The Union, having no option but to attack, was bound to suffer heavy casualties. Southerners hoped that Northern opinion might come to question high losses. If Northern will collapsed, the Confederacy would win by default. Geography gave the Confederacy an important strategic advantage. In the crucial theatre of the war – North Virginia – a series of rivers provided a barrier to Union armies intent on capturing Richmond, the Confederate capital. Slavery, which might seem to be a Confederate weakness, enabled the South to enlist more of its white manpower than the North.…
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” This statement that created by President Abraham Lincoln demonstrates the necessity of the Civil War. If the United States were to remain divided, the strength of these two nations would be degraded and allow the continuation of an immoral practice; slavery. “Politicians, business leaders, newspaper editors, and others desperately sought a last-ditch compromise that would keep other states from following South Carolina...no compromise on Earth could reverse the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Southern fears of a “Black Republican” administration” (Roberts 50). As various groups split within the nation, the…
After the Civil War, there was huge amount of attempts to alter the society in the Southern states. The main ideas in the North were to merge blacks into society as quickly as possible.But of course the South was not as eager. In fact, the South wanted to expire all chances for the Reconstruction effort because they knew what it was leading to. Due to their social lack of interest in equal rights, their political violence towards blacks and their opponents The South killed Reconstruction because of their lack of interest in equal rights, their violence towards the North and blacks, and the North’s growing absence of sympathy towards blacks.…
Compare and contrast economic, social, and political developments in the North and South between 1800-1860. How do you account for the divergence between the two sections?…
The Civil War was the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought - killing over 620,000 Americans and causing more destruction than any other war. Long standing conflicts and disagreements made the violent war seem inevitable years before it happened, and led to it becoming a major turning point in US history. Americans have struggled with sectionalism since the colonial days, as seen in the issue of slavery and states rights, and the passing of documents and compromises such as the Articles of Confederation in an attempt to unify the colonies. During the period around the Civil War, the universal idea of manifest destiny reignited sectionalism between states because of arguments over whether to admit new lands in the West as slave or…
Midterm essay Antebellum America was a period in American history where the nation was divided in two. The North, dependent on factories and manufacturing, lived an industrial lifestyle. Cities were overpopulated with people and living conditions were not the best, but the ambition to make money in the North brought people there. The South was not industrialized like the North; instead, it relied on an agricultural lifestyle with wide fields and acres of lands. It produced and exported cotton, sugar, and rice.…
A war that originated because the nation was divided ultimately marked the beginning of a truly unified United States. The Civil War put to rest the increasing sectionalism that divided the North, the South, and the newly colonized West. At the root were the issues of slavery in the South, and the attempt of the Southern states to withdraw from the Union. Although many lives and untold millions were lost in personal belongings, livestock, and structures, the Civil War set in motion the progression towards a unified Nation. During the 18th and 19th century, slavery was a very significant aspect of the development of the nation. The economic, social, and political development of the nation during this period was directly associated to slavery even though society condemned it as morally wrong. The following will detail the significance of slavery in the economic, social, and political development of the 18th and 19th century America. Additionally details will show the economic, social, and political impacts of the conflict as well as why a democratic nation failed to address the crisis peacefully.…
The conflicts between liberty and equality in America have ranged between minor disagreements to full-out war. The most obvious contingent in the struggle between liberty and equality is slavery, but there was also friction in the women’s suffrage movement and various other attempts to provide equal rights under the law.…
The civil war spawned some of the most gruesome battles in america’s history, but besides the immeasurable loss of life what truly made the war such a significant event in America's history? After the Union victory in the plight to end slavery and provide equity among the races, life changed many ways for blacks and whites, but some things never changed despite the efforts of Abraham Lincoln and his supporters. The country was split in two with the North in power and the South creatively opposing the fair treatment of blacks. The conclusion of the civil war brought many positive and negative repercussions that changed the balance of the United States and eventually led to the nation we have today. Much of this is shown in…
I never wanted history in my life. It’s full of chronological records of significant of events, events that form the subject, and evens that are arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation. And also there would be an argument between histories vs. art. But there is someone who pushes me to history and combines it with art. Someone wanted me to watch his play.…