What Was The Cause Of The American Civil War
American Civil War
Introduction
The American Civil War is always remembered as central event in the history of the United States of America. The revolution of 1776 to 1783 resulted in the creation of the America but what kind of nation the America would have, was determined by the civil war of 1861 to 1865. There were two basic questions that were needed to get answered and remain unanswered even by the revolution. These questions raised the unanswered thought that whether the United States was to be a dissolvable union of independent states or an indissoluble nation with a sovereign national government and whether the American nation, result of a declaration stating that all men were created with an equal right to freedom, would continue …show more content…
Hence, the fight for the abolishment of the slavery throughout the Union proved as the key factor for the civil war in America near many people. However, it is not as simple as this and slavery, while a major issue, was not the only issue that pressed American into the ‘Great American Tragedy’. By April 1861, slavery had become inextricably entangled with state rights, the influence of the federal government over the states, the South’s ‘way of life’ etc. – all of which plays a vital role to the causes of the American Civil …show more content…
During the four years of the American Civil War, the president steered the North to win and authored the Emancipation Proclamation, which dealt a harsh drive to the institution of slavery in the U.S. By nature, the President Lincoln was a kind and soft-spoken man who used words cautiously but to great effect. His vividness was captured in the Gettysburg Address, in which he movingly related the ongoing Civil War to the beginning principles of America, all in less than two minutes. On 14th April 1865, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford 's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was gunshot by John Wilkes Booth, who was an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. President Lincoln died the next morning. The assassinator Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, cornered in a burning barn, Booth was lethally shot by a Union soldier. Nine other people were found guilty and involved in the assassination plan and as results four were hanged, four imprisoned, and one acquitted. Lincoln 's murder on 14 April 1865 detached his politically moderate authority from the national stage, providing path to a more fundamental form of
Introduction
The American Civil War is always remembered as central event in the history of the United States of America. The revolution of 1776 to 1783 resulted in the creation of the America but what kind of nation the America would have, was determined by the civil war of 1861 to 1865. There were two basic questions that were needed to get answered and remain unanswered even by the revolution. These questions raised the unanswered thought that whether the United States was to be a dissolvable union of independent states or an indissoluble nation with a sovereign national government and whether the American nation, result of a declaration stating that all men were created with an equal right to freedom, would continue …show more content…
Hence, the fight for the abolishment of the slavery throughout the Union proved as the key factor for the civil war in America near many people. However, it is not as simple as this and slavery, while a major issue, was not the only issue that pressed American into the ‘Great American Tragedy’. By April 1861, slavery had become inextricably entangled with state rights, the influence of the federal government over the states, the South’s ‘way of life’ etc. – all of which plays a vital role to the causes of the American Civil …show more content…
During the four years of the American Civil War, the president steered the North to win and authored the Emancipation Proclamation, which dealt a harsh drive to the institution of slavery in the U.S. By nature, the President Lincoln was a kind and soft-spoken man who used words cautiously but to great effect. His vividness was captured in the Gettysburg Address, in which he movingly related the ongoing Civil War to the beginning principles of America, all in less than two minutes. On 14th April 1865, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford 's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was gunshot by John Wilkes Booth, who was an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. President Lincoln died the next morning. The assassinator Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, cornered in a burning barn, Booth was lethally shot by a Union soldier. Nine other people were found guilty and involved in the assassination plan and as results four were hanged, four imprisoned, and one acquitted. Lincoln 's murder on 14 April 1865 detached his politically moderate authority from the national stage, providing path to a more fundamental form of