NAME: __________________________ The 1850s: Prelude to Civil War DIRECTIONS: You will have 75 minutes to develop a Document-Based Question (DBQ-style) essay analyzing how events in the 1850s led to discord and tension in the pre-Civil War United States. This essay will be a take-home essay due _________________. You will time yourself on this essay, providing yourself with 15 minutes to complete a graphic organizer and 60 minutes to write the essay. You may only use the information you have on institution of slavery and the Age of Crisis. The DBQ question tests your ability to work with historical documents.
Although the First Amendment was always an important part of the bill of rights, modern First Amendment law was not born until after World War I. For this reason, Lincoln and his subordinates imposed restrictions on speech during the Civil War that he likely would not have imposed if he had the benefit of the next 150 years of First Amendment jurisprudence. For example, on September 24, 1862, responding to the grave political and military climate, Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring martial law and authorizing the use of military tribunals to try civilians within the United States who were believed to be “guilty of disloyal practice” or who “afford[ed] aid and comfort to Rebels.” The following March, Major General Ambrose Burnside assumed command of the Department of the Ohio and issued General Order No. 38, authorizing imposition of the death penalty for those who aided the Confederacy and who “declared sympathies for the enemy.” When Democratic congressman Clement L. Vallandigham, perhaps Lincoln’s sharpest Northern critic, referred to Lincoln in a public speech as a political tyrant and called for his overthrow, he was arrested by 150 Union soldiers at his home in Dayton at 2:40 a.m. on May 5, 1863. He was escorted to Kemper Barracks, a military prison in Cincinnati, brought before a military tribunal a day after his arrest, found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for the duration of the war.
The American Civil War began April 12, 1861 and ended May 9, 1865. This war is sometimes called “The War Between the States” because it was fought between the North, also known as the Union states, and the South, also known as the Confederate states. The Civil War was triggered by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860, because Lincoln wanted to put an end to slavery and keep the Union together. As the United States continued to grow and to have more states join the Union, problems began when the North and South fought over whether the new states would come in as slave states or not. The territorial expansion of the United States played a great role in the Civil war because it indirectly affected slavery.
Throughout history, mankind has waged war against each other various reasons. These reasons are often times proven to be trivial and superfluous thus making wars preventable. The American civil war was a war that was inevitable because of key events leading up to the war divided the country to the point where it made war unpreventable. The first issue that made the civil war unavoidable was the Declaration of Independence (cite). The writer of the Declaration was Thomas Jefferson who wrote it based off the ideals of the enlightenment period.
Yet in 1775, the American Colonies rebelled against British authority. The dramatic turnabout resulted from disagreements over the proper relationship between Britain and its colonies. Britain expected the colonists to obey the British Parliament “in call cases whatsoever.” The colonists, on the other hand, believed that there were limits to Parliament’s power. They believed they had certain rights that Britain should respect. Each side refused to yield, which led to a military showdown.
Manfred Blum Instructor: Dr. David Haus History 205 12 December 2006 What Caused the Civil War If someone were to ask the average American citizen about the Civil War, many would probably bring up Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg, Bull Run and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. All the aforementioned people, places, and events are all important nonetheless, but if the average American citizen were then asked what caused the Civil War, they would be likely to tell you that it was slavery and the North and South’s disagreement about it. Many people do not realize that slavery was not the direct cause for the succession of the Confederate States, or the Civil War itself. Both sides had their reasons for fighting the war. The South’s
However source 16 states that the British themselves were reluctant to grant India independence. When the British PM, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, followed him. He was acting just within the limits of his legal powers to do this without consulting any Indians. This indicated that Britain was still behaving as a master and called into question any of its previous concessions. This furthered the Indian’s desire for independence but they were still faced with the challenges of overcoming the divisions within India.
President Nixon's Watergate scandal only seemed to fortify this distrust. Congress, in an effort to prevent another conflict like Vietnam in the future, passed the War Powers Act. This stated that Congress had to be informed that troops would be into possible combat situations, and had to take action of those troops within 60 days (Schulzinger, 1999). It would seem as though the Vietnam War and all of the battles our nation had to endure at this fragile moment in history would help define our nation. The United States was torn in many factions at that time period, Civil Rights Movement being a major one.
Parliament and Crown had opposing views on whether or not to have a military group to fight the British. Henry enthusiastically proclaimed his stance on the situation at hand. Henry thought very highly of patriotism and felt that he had the ability to address the House. Even though he did not want to be disrespectful to any of the members, he did not hold anything back. With insisting that there was no time for formality, he realized that this was a terrible time for the country.
This is an example of Isolation because the United States tried to stay neutral. This mode of foreign policy was not that successful because the United States could not stay neutral and ended up going to war with Britain. Imperialism is when you