counterrevolution by converting the war for the Union into a revolution for freedom.” (McPherson) Indeed‚ others have been proclaiming to free black Americans from Slavery because it was a necessity to maintain a peace between the Union and the Confederacy. In 1861‚ Lincoln took the conservative position where the northern government were calling for antislavery war and revoked actions by martial
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because of the political and social impact‚ medical advances‚ and the ending of the pernicious institution of slavery. The Confederacy relied on the institution of slavery‚ that was one of the issues that started the war. Abolitionists‚ John Brown‚ Frederick Douglass‚ Harriet Tubman‚ and Harriet Beecher Stowe began to voice to the people the evil of slavery‚ the Confederacy feared that their way of life without slavery would come to an end. On January 31st 1865‚ Amendment 13 of the United Constitution
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control. It first directly affected only those slaves who had already escaped to the Union side. However‚ when the slaves heard of the Proclamation‚ they quickly escaped to Union lines as the Army units moved South. As the Union armies conquered the Confederacy‚ thousands of slaves were freed each day until nearly all “approximately 4 million”‚ according to the 1860 census‚ were freed by July 1865. (Slave Census‚ 1860). When the war finally came to an end‚ the people who had come up with the idea of the
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defenses in which the Confederates believed they were fighting for. Business‚ politics‚ slavery and abolition‚ differences between Northerners and Southerners beliefs and values are all pieces to the puzzle that eventually led to the war. The Confederacy believed they had the right to secede were based on grounds that the United States Union no longer politically supported nor represented them as a people. According to the Declaration of Independence in the opening statement: “When in the course
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in the USA‚ but the Confederacy did not want this‚ mostly because a lot of them owned slaves and needed them in their production of cotton. The war ends with a massive surrender of the Confederacy‚ 620.000 soldiers were killed and the slaves are free men‚ or are they really? The short story ”The Whipping Boy” written by Richard Gibney in 2011 is a story about three Southern State slaves‚ who gain independence towards the end of the war. Unfortunately they meet some Confederacy soldiers on their way
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They believed that the central government should not be able to make laws that affect every state. Each state should have be able to make their own laws and be able to govern themselves‚ in the opinion of the Confederacy. This is why when they thought their constitutional rights were being violated and slavery was coming to an end‚ they decided to secede from the union. They believed that if they seceded that they could govern themselves and the state would have
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part in their lives. In Tartuffe‚ the matriarch of the family is Madame Pernelle‚ and she does not hold her tongue when speaking her mind to her family. As she so states‚“ You‚ boy‚ grow more foolish every day. To think my grandson should be such dunce! I’ve said it a hundred times‚ if I said it once‚ that if you keep on the course which you’ve started‚ you’ll leave your worthy father broken-hearted.” (Norton; Vol. D; 2nd Edition; Pg. 315) The family’s disregard for her decision making does not sway
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confrontation hurled the two most powerful city-states of Greece against each other. The two conflicting sides of Athens and Sparta forced many other city-states of the Hellenic world to align themselves. Each city-state could side with the powerful naval confederacy of the Athenians‚ or the elite Spartan military. The combat supremacy of Athens and Sparta was not the only factor. Athens was a mighty empire and wished to expand its control. The Spartans feared Athenian power‚ and they entered hostilities with
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focus was reconciliation between the Union and the Confederacy‚ he soon realized that slavery was the way to reach his goals of peace. Later‚ by adding African American soldiers and slaves looking for freedom into the Union army‚ Lincoln had started to base the war on slavery. Although he stated in 1863‚ "all persons held as slaves within any State‚ or designated
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by Lee. I believe that Longstreet is not to blame for the Confederate loss of the American Civil War because everything he did during and after the Civil War was to help the Confederacy‚ he always followed Lee’s orders‚ and his reputation was tarnished by the Lee cult. James Longstreet was always loyal to the Confederacy and no matter what‚ even after the war‚ was loyal. Longstreet was a graduate of West Point in 1842 and became friends with men such as George Pickett and a year later his best
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