Society Before The American Civil War

Our past is our future just like a mother molds morals and ethics into their children our nation's laws and historic events and government molds our future and society. The American Civil War did just that by causing advances in our society whether or not they were wanted. Some of the advances are the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th amendment. Which even when they were created they were not accepted by the society that is our nation. Many people were still looking for and finding loopholes on how to keep their slaves as ¨free¨ slaves.
Society before the civil war was already rough and divided if it wasn't because of trade, tariffs it was because of state rights, and if not that because of differences between north, and southern states. As a society, they all were on different sides, but violence was one of the only common answers because they both decided to go to war after the Confederates struck the Union at Charleston Bay. Before the Society became divided owning slaves was a social construct to show how much money you had or how much you were worth. Arkansas´s legislation passed a bill requiring ¨free¨ blacks to choose exile or slavery on February 28, 1859. This was two years before The American Civil War started. The last straw before the American Civil War started was the election of Abraham
Except for the 14th and 15th amendments. Although the Emancipation Proclamation didn't end slavery immediately after it was issued; The 13th amendment is what later ended slavery after it was ratified on December 6, 1865. The 14th amendment stated that anybody naturalized in the United States of America was born a United States citizen. And the 15th amendment stated that the right of a citizen of the United States should not be denied because of their color and/or race or previous condition of