By doing so, it created one of the many disagreements between the North and South, the institution of slavery. When the Fugitive Slave Act was placed in the Compromise of 1850, it created even more hostility between the two parties. But it was in no comparison to the outburst that was formed from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This book created a face for the slaves, it gave everyone an understanding of how slaves were treated and the injustice they suffered in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act. “It transformed abolitionism, bringing the movement, whose extreme rhetoric many Northerners had previously viewed with disapproval, to the edge of respectability” (Goldfield 378).
Both sides were determined, but I believe that in the end when the South surrendered it was a good thing for both sides. I also think that the South regretted that decision and could have pushed on if they hearts would have still been in it. Lincoln had one main objective to keep the Union together and not let the South secede. One thing the South clearly misjudged was that the North would be able to continue on with the war, they were hoping they would give up at the start. With the ability to gain more soldiers and afford the supplies needed the North had increased its chances of winning the war, the longer the war went on the less chance the South had at winning.
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 arguments that Political division was the most important factor contributing to the outbreak of the civil war was southerners had lost faith in politics, Politicians had long
This shows how the West we willing to let the soviets do something that was clearly wrong. The reason why they allowed them to do this was because they knew if they had intervened it would have escalated the tension between the two countries and would have possibly started war with the soviets. This is the idea of appeasement and some people said that it was showing a ‘soft’ approach to facing communism. The US didn’t want the soviets to think that they had the advantage over America so they made sure they kept a strong grip on the West of Berlin. Despite their willingness to coexist they were not willing to look weak or give in easily.
King's nonviolent dogma was the solution for the blacks' desire for freedom, but was opposed to other leaders' doctrines of violent and militant acts. Major struggles of civil rights took this form which resulted a victory. On the other hand, violent acts and streets riot could only put them in
Seeing as though the Confederacy initially had an advantage over the Union as far as better generals and espiritu morale, the South seemed highly likely to win the war. In the book, Why the Confederacy Lost, the idea that the South had any chance of winning is combatted, while also proving why the North won. Although the North did not possess the knowledge of the land on which they fought, their ability to win was based purely on slaves, the South's demoralization and lack of ideology, their uniforms, and their odds against the South altogether; if the North had not have won, the end of slavery and even a civil war would have been inevitable with time. In the beginning, Grant wanted to mobilize every available man and apply pressure on all fronts. What was a better way to utilize every available man than to utilize slaves?
Prior to the Civil War, Lincoln did not want slavery to be allowed in western expansion efforts and although he opposed slavery, he thought it should remain in the southern states where it was already established and had a strong foothold. Because it would
Once slaves were in America, they started to realize the magnitude of their problem. There were many slave uprisings and run-a-ways that fueled the fire between the north and south. African Americans also played a huge role in the outcome of the Civil War because of the part they took during it. The simple fact that the south owned slaves and the north did not was enough to make the two “sides” disagree with one another. The north believed that it was wrong to own another person like they were property.
The Anaconda Plan was a brilliant idea proposed by General in Chief Winfield Scott to neutralize the south by forming a blockade around the Confederate border using naval and land blockades to suffocate the South’s resources and became a large contributor to the Union Victory. The Union forces depended on the blockade of Southern ports to cripple the South’s forces and give the North a large upper hand. However, the large scale blockade of the South proved to be more difficult than anticipated. The Anaconda Plan was criticized constantly by the press and civilians and said to be a waste of time by eager citizens from both sides ready to end the war as quickly as possible. As the war progressed, it was no question the amount of damage the blockade had truly cost the South.
Democrat Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln had won the election and the south was furious because they knew that Abe favored the North and wanted to abolish slavery so many of the states started to secede(Britannica Encyclopedia). So Abraham Lincoln knew that as much as he wanted to get rid of slavery he could not get rid of it completely it would make things worse and those south sates that took side with the union would of left so he had to please the north and the south so he did what he could do. All Abraham Lincoln wanted was for the confederate states to come back to the union to bring them back in so he promised that does states in rebellion in secession slavery would be banned from them if they did not return to the union many states did not listen because they had built their own government already. And did not want to lose their rights of having slaves because they dependent on them a lot for their plantations of cotton and without them they would lose their workers and money. The union was fighting for the freedom of slaves and to bring back the union to be united as one.