... that Civil War happened because of the issue of slavery and others think it happened because the events outlined by James Mcapherson in his article "Who Freed the Slaves?" that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Union's victory helped slaves to gain their freedom. Barbara Fields wrote that the slaves did ... them at all. That his main goal was saving the union at the expense of the death of black slavery. James Mcapherson also wrote about who freed slaves : "The clear answer is the war. Without the Civil War there would be no confiscation act, no Emancipation Proclamation, no Thi...

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... River by cutting off the South from the west, complicating the communication between the two. The last role was to capture the capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Virginia. Politically, the plan was appealing; it permitted time for disposition to cool and encouraged the possibility of a peaceful return of the Union. Militarily, the Plan's goal was to engage in ... the North's overpowering advantages in population and industrial potency and accepted the imperative value of control over the Mississippi River Valley. The most important coastal section was Hampton Roads ...

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... steamer could carry enough cargo to supply several divisions quite rapidly, while the same transport by land was slower and required wagons, animals and men who also had to be supplied. The Mississippi River was the most important of all, the very lifeblood of America. When the southern states seceded, ... troops often moved in a shorter time and always in superior numbers. But in the first two years of the war, the Army of Northern Virginia under General Lee had inflicted several crushing defeats on the Army of the Potomac. Including the latest one at Chancellorsville (May 1863), where...

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... it meant war. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. In pursuing victory, Lincoln assumed extra-legal powers over the ... ...

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... to combat the confederate forces, and so he was indeed eager to take some action of his own against slavery. "For months, he had wanted to free the 3.5 million slaves who were the backbone of the Confederate economy. However, Secretary of State William H. Seward advised that such an act would seem hollow without a military victory showing the North's superior strength."" (Kowalski ... shall be free. On January 1, 1863 the president issued the final Emancipation Proclamation which declared all slaves in rebelling states free, with exemptions for forty-eight counties in Virginia that were...

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... Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida) had been readmitted to the Union, having ratified the Fourteenth Amendment as required by the first Reconstruction Act. The four remaining unreconstructed states "Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia "were readmitted in 1870 after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the black man's right to vote (Stampp 1965 ... Americans; presidential impeachment; and a disputed presidential election. But when he looked around him, much would appear unchanged. Southern representatives had returned to Cong...

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... gives a primary example of the racism associated with the conservative Democratic party in his book Reconstruction: After the Civil War. An ex-Confederate army colonel from Virginia, R. E. Withers, successfully won the Virginia governorship after a hotly contested race in the early 1870s. He expressed the view of many southern Democrats when he stated the following: "I do not ... directly responsible for the end of Reconstruction. According to proponents of the revisionist school of historiography, Reconstruction ended because of "lower-class whites...within the Democratic party...who, ...

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... in bondage would be deemed blissful by many slaves laboring in the Deep South. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist, women's rights activist and preacher who challenged injustice whenever she came across it. As a speaker, Sojourner Truth became known for her quick wit and powerful presence. She would ... of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies. It offered pardon, with certain exceptions, to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. Once a group in any conquered state equal in number to one tenth of that st...

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... was part of the Slave Power." (153) As one could imagine, this viewpoint was one held by a distinct minority population in the north; freed slaves. One particularly famous African American who was freed from slavery was Fredrick Douglass. Douglass was against slavery, the spread of slavery, and even the fugitive slave laws that promoted it. "The fugitive slave law plunged Negroes ... of the North into the bitterest anguish. That horrible, hell-black enactment embodied the Virginia principle that every person of color was a slave until proved otherwise. The fugitive slave law was further...

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... of life. It took the other group of states until even after the first shots of the Civil War were fired to secede from the Union. These states: North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas seceded only after Lincoln's call for troops forced them to choose between secession and fighting against their sister states of the Lower South. These states did not ... called a convention whose purpose was to call a vote on secession from the United States. The catalyst that fueled the birth of this convention was the election of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who had defeated the Democratic Pre...

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... be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy" The Collected works of Abraham Lincoln. Basler, (1858). "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under just god, can not long retain it" The Collected works of Abraham Lincoln. Basler, (1859). In the year 1858 ... of the war went by the north achieved a tremendous winnings that forced southern generals to surrender to the north. General Robert Lee of the confederate army surrendered his army in Virginia on April 9 1856 at Appomatto...

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... -scale Civil War to come in 1861. In 1859, Brown also struck Harpers Ferry, seizing the federal arsenal in an attempt to arm and lead the Virginian slaves in revolt. Virginia convicted Brown of murder and treason, hanging him as a martyr of the abolitionist cause. Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists ... who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. The South questioned the rationale of remaining in the Union with violent subversives. Tensions were inflamed by Charles Sumner's speech, " ... South. John Brown's affin...

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... before they could have the chance to own their own land. Headright - as an economic incentive to encourage the English to settle in Virginia and other colonies sponsoring parties would offer 50 acres of land per person who migrated or who paid for the passage of others. * Because of Virginias high death rate and difficult living conditions, headrights functioned as an inducement to ... ...

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... -scale Civil War to come in 1861. In 1859, Brown also struck Harpers Ferry, seizing the federal arsenal in an attempt to arm and lead the Virginian slaves in revolt. Virginia convicted Brown of murder and treason, hanging him as a martyr of the abolitionist cause. Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists ... who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. The South questioned the rationale of remaining in the Union with violent subversives. Tensions were inflamed by Charles Sumner's speech, " ... South. John Brown's affin...

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... -scale Civil War to come in 1861. In 1859, Brown also struck Harpers Ferry, seizing the federal arsenal in an attempt to arm and lead the Virginian slaves in revolt. Virginia convicted Brown of murder and treason, hanging him as a martyr of the abolitionist cause. Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists ... who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. The South questioned the rationale of remaining in the Union with violent subversives. Tensions were inflamed by Charles Sumner's speech, " ... South. John Brown's affin...

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... ultimate sovereignty with them. This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as hostilities began between the North and South. He also faced a military threat from Britain and France, the world's two superpowers at ... indispensable in ensuring Union victory. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million Northern men to face a Southern army of over 2 million soldiers and in battles fought from Virginia to Californ...

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... order punishes or acquits the alleged offender ." The writ of habeas corpus was initially suspended because of Lincoln's worries that Maryland would join Virginia in succeeding from the United States. If Maryland were to succeed Washington D.C. would be surrounded by the opposition. Due to the growing threat ... to the enemy was subject to arrest and trial before a military commission." With that being said it allowed local sheriffs to decide who was loyal or disloyal without considering the main goal of enforcing the draft. After the pivotal win for the Union at the battle ... Many nor...

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... an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the Union throughout. Johnson was the first to initiate a reconstruction policy in May of 1865. This policy would see many different changes over nearly the next decade ... Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. The last states admitted to the Union in 1870, were Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, and Georgia which had ...

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... depict the evils of slavery and show that the Fugitive Slave Law was unjust. Stowe tried to give insight into the mind of an abolitionist who wanted to end slavery; however, the south did not support this concept of bringing an end to slavery because they felt that their property was ... south saw slavery as their way of life and thought of slaves as nothing more than another piece of their property. Dred Scott, an African American who was born a slave but had lived on free soil for four years, tried to sue his master for not granting him freedom (Document F). This ... , John Brown viol...

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... control of the Union Army. It did not apply to those slave states such as Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and parts of Virginia and Louisiana, that were already occupied by Northern troops. It was not until December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution had ... contracts, sue and be sued, give evidence in court, and inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. Persons who denied these rights to former slaves were guilty of a misdemeanour and upon conviction faced a fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one ... wh...

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... the other southern states. The Abolitionists were another factor that came into the tension point of slavery. People such as William Lloyd Garrison who published the newspaper, "The Liberator", which attacked southern slave owners. Making them and the slave traders out to be criminals. He and ... Christian religion and was in general, immoral. Another abolitionist that fought hard for the abolishment of slavery was Fredrick Douglass, an ex-slave who escaped from slavery and urged other black people to do so. Douglass became the "station-master and conductor" of the Underground Railroad ...

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... and misuse of the Lincoln standard should not be judged too harshly. The African American's views were not the only ones important to the proclamation, the views of the soldiers who were fighting for their freedom were just as important. With regard to the soldiers" view the emancipation proclamation raised the question: "What effect did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation have ... many soldiers opposed emancipation and letting black troops into the union military. An army surgeon remarked, "His Proclamation, issued last month has caused considerable discontent among the regiments of Ma...

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... to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to devise"2. To prove his legitimacy ... were not only contained in America, Douglass also spread his word internationally. Since Douglass had manifested his experiences as a slave in his book and had augmented in popularity, he was afraid the Fugitive Slave Laws in Americ...

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... not satisfied with them. Men also interfered with the right to education, religion, and profitability from property ownership. Men were in charge of industries and collected taxes from single women who owned property. In this way, the authors claim that men play the role of God by determining which rights women are supposed to enjoy. Further, men had made women overly ... ...

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... in a list of the top presidents. However, it is through first physiological nature that Lincoln developed his love and passion for nature, and that implemented his human nature and shaped who he was and how he was going to put his plans into action. He emphasized equality, that all men were created equal. This part of the Declaration of Independence became ... ...

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