Blake Scott Gordon Mr. Kegler US History B2 27-11-12 What Led The South To Secede From The Union? It’s undeniable that the three main reasons leading to the secession of the South from the Union were geography, poor judgment and economy. Before the Civil War started, slavery took on a big role in Southern states. The South used slaves to work on almost everything from cleaning, watching children to taking care of the crops. Slavery soon became an enormous issue seeing as the slave owners came to treat slaves whichever way they pleased, getting away with it.
Unit 4 DBQ Slavery Slavery is an issue that has been prevalent in this world since the dawn of humanity. The human race has a tendency to crave power and authority, which comes hand in hand with the habit on conforming, which we humans also have been known to practice. The Civil War was a critical time in our nation’s history; morality was put to the test as the issue of slavery was being questioned. I believe that slavery was a major cause of the civil war since it was the main contrast between the North and South in the late 1800s. One reason that slavery was a major cause of the Civil War is that it was the reason why the Confederates wanted to secede from the Union.
Many Northern abolitionists became aggressive. Frederick Douglas, escaped-slave, was furious on the institution and wrote to them. The most memorable act in this period was the Underground Railroad. This railroad was designed to help slaves escape the brutal slavery and to go to the north for freedom(civilwar). Later on in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln bestowed the Emancipation Proclamation(wikipedia).
Over the last century many historians argued what the cause of the civil war was. While some argue that the causes were Political others argue that the cause of the civil war was economics. In this essay, we will address both sides of this argument starting with the political side of the argument. In the late 1850’s, the United States of America had become extremely divided politically and economically. From the political stand view the northern did not support slavery as opposed to their southern neighbors whose main source of labor and revenue was slave labor.
The reasons are evident: the war that separated the country in the mid nineteenth century still drives a wedge between some; the war, its causes, and effects were abundant and difficult and affected nearly every part of American society; and it seems that the bloodier, more complex the event, the more words we use to describe, and justify its events and effects. Through a narrative telling of the Civil War, McPherson is able to focus on two major themes, which he carries throughout the book. These themes appear consistently, and act as a thesis. The first is to examine “the multiple meanings of slavery and freedom, and how they dissolved and re-formed into new patterns in the crucible of war” (viii). McPherson's constant reminders that slavery (and its opposite, freedom) is central to the story.
The blacks has contributed a lot of work to gain their own freedom. For example, the slaves would run from their masters to become contrabands which was enemy property for the union. Also, they would labor behind the scenes for the nothern armies and rick their lives by going on the battle front. Northerners began enlisting blacks to assist them in the fight. Lincoln's second confiscation act and the militia act both of 1862,
The South, however, was holding its own with its individual institution, agricultural cultivation. The southern economy became a one crop economy, depending on cotton and therefore on slavery. The labor endeavor in the South and North were per se incomparable. The discrepancies between the parties unraveled major factors in economic attitudes. One factor from the Northern area was that society evolved because people from different cultures and classes united and worked side by side.
Feminist Perspective: Race Relations Racism towards African Americans and other races have been a struggle to overcome and somewhat continues in our country today. Racism starts far back as the early 1600's. Slavery became the form of labor for the white Americans to produce food, cotton,etc. The slave trade provided a lot of wealth to the white Americans in the United States. African people became enslaved; it seems to me like they did not have the power to fight off the white Americans.
Although many people believe that the civil war was only about slavery that is not totally true. The civil war was about many factors and issues that divided the North from the South. The civil war was fought between slave states and free states. For this reason it makes it seem as though it was a slavery war. The civil war created many economic downfalls for both the Union and Confederacy.
The impact of slavery on these United States of America has had long-lasting and far- reaching effects on the culture of this nation. The notion that one is a product of their past has been like a concrete bolder tied around the necks of the generations, which followed the institution of slavery. An institution formed to encourage the economic enterprise in the Americas at the beginning of an immigration onslaught to these newly formed United States. However, the political environment of era in addition to racism encouraged in British society, which followed the colonist to the new world; encouraged and in many ways fostered division of the people based on color. Moreover, as the institute of slavery was producing great economic wealth for