...Outcomes of the Civil War | How could the outcome of the Civil War been changed? | The Civil War was won by the Union but what would have happened if the Confederates would have won? What would have happened if the Union had won earlier? What would the outcome have been if new technologies had been implemented? These are questions that are not easy to answer. These questions demand speculation and assumptions that are not provable. The best guesses of different outcomes are all we have to work with. The first question, what if the Confederates had won, has many different outcomes. The most likely outcome of this is that the United States would have become five different countries. The Union and the Confederates are obvious but Texas and California would have pushed to become sovereign countries. Utah would have become the fifth country by becoming a Church State. The northwest States probably would have rejoined the Union in the 1930’s due to the Great Depression. Abraham Lincoln may not have been assassinated since John Wilkes Booth did not have a motive for the killing. Lincoln would have finished his career as a senator after twenty years. He would have written his memoirs after the war with many thousands of copies sold mainly in the south. Robert E. Lee would have become Confederate President Jefferson Davis's special envoy to the United States. But the strain of the job, and trying to maintain friendly relations with a former enemy, would have...
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... Why the CCP won the Civil War? * Intro – introduce how the civil war was going (background information, a timeline, who was fighting? Who was winning (GMD)), overview on why the CCP won * Main Body (1st developed point) political – both had foreign aid, CCP had a strong leadership, peasants liked the idea of communism, however the GMD lost sight of the three principles (dictatorship, no democracy, very harsh rule) * Main Body (2nd developed point) military – the soldiers felt that they were fighting for a cause (were passionate about it), whilst the GMD had their soldiers unfed and didn’t have a motive to fight this led for soldiers to desert the GMD and move to the CCP, bringing their weapons with them (the biggest suppliers of weapons were the GMD), write about the military tactics (guerrilla and CKS wrong move) * Main Body (3rd developed point) social - CCP had support of the majority: Women’s association: No more foot binding, prostitution, Land reform, When they made mistake, too radical for land reform, they backed down and began to more moderate. * Conclusion has to go back to the question Compare the two!! GMD & CCP Why did a Civil war break out in China in 1947? * Intro * Main Body (1st/2nd developed point) (division between GMD and CCP), 1925 – 1945 main points (shanghais massacre, extermination campaigns, long march, war with Japan) * Main Body (2nd developed point) 1945-1946 (end of the Sino-Japanese war, CCP willing to...
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...America will be put through strain and heartache to prosper and become the country that many look toward for freedom. The 50’s were a time where we had to take a step back and reanalyze because of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. These two major events that happened in America may have shaped us in the wrong way. During this time in America, we were divided as a whole. It wasn’t one country but two, not by where you lived but rather by your skin color. If you were born with the wrong skin color you would be penalized for this. “Although African Americans’ subjugation holds a special place in U.S. history, they were by no means the only important group facing severe marginalization during the 1950s and since. Native Americans as well as Latinos and Latinas were subject to systematic racial discrimination, dispossession of property, and hate crimes.” (Super, 2014) America was a dark place if you weren’t white and that held us back as a nation. To end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans, the African-American Civil Rights Movement started. This movement was to give blacks equal rights with their white counterpart. In order to get the message across four main leaders in the Civil Rights Movement started acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. These leaders were Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, James Farmer and John Lewis. With their help they created sit-in and marches to get their...
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...Appomattox Courthouse, Va. The American Civil War was fought between the Northern states of the Union and the Southern Confederate States of America. The Civil War started April 12, 1861 after the first shot was fired on Fort Sumter in the harbor outside Charleston, S.C. The first major battle did not take place until July 21, 1861, and it was a commonly held belief that the war would be decided during this one battle. It took four years of battle and destruction before the Confederate States surrendered to Union forces in 1865. The Race Relations was one area with great potential for violence, although many black leaders stressed nonviolence. Since the mid- 1950s, King and others had been leading disciplined mass protests of black Americans in the South against segregation, emphasizing appeals to the conscience of the white majority (see civil rights movement). Lastly, the question implies the possibility of a counterfactual answer: The South really won the war. I have heard this argument made, and I am not persuaded. I know the logic: The racism that emerged in the postwar U.S., especially but not only in the South, looked like slavery under a different name; the South won the war of history and memory, securing the honor of the cause and forcing reunion on Southern white supremacist terms. And, indeed at a certain, meta – historical level, that is hard to dispute, especially the latter point. The U.S. won the Civil War. It mattered, really mattered, that the...
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...What caused the Civil War? The Civil War was caused by several different issues among the states. Slavery, state rights, and tariffs, were some of the major disagreements that caused the Southern States to secede from the Union. The secession of the Southern states signaled the start of the Civil War. Southern states were infuriated by the high tariffs that were placed on manufactured goods that were processed in the Northern states. Some Southern states believed they should be able to determine whether or not they want to follow nationwide tariffs on imported, manufactured goods. The tariffs did not affect the North as much as the South, because the economy of the North was dependent on the many factories that produced a variety of different...
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...In 1861 the deadliest and bloodiest war of all time began. The war was a battle between the North (union soldiers) and the South (confederate soldiers). Many people thought this war would be a short war, but it lasted 4 years. This war was the Civil War and it is an important event in history. Many people say the civil war was over states rights, but a majority of people say it was over slavery. Slavery was said to be the #1 conflict between the North and the South in the 1860’s (Guelzo 1). People from the North were being used as slaves in the south. The south liked/ wanted slaves, but the North did not agree, which is why the country was divided (Luce 1). Fifteen out of 34 of the states were slave states...
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...Over the years people have thought of many different causes for the civil war that took over 600,000 American lives in 1861-1865. Many people believe that the only true cause of the civil war was because of slavery but the war itself was fought over something much bigger than just slavery it was fought over the great political difference between the North and South. The actions of the Democratic politicians from the South and Republican politicians from the North kept the conflict between the states at the center of the political debate for years and made the war inevitable. Key political causes of the civil war include the acts congress passed, the split that happened throughout the years between congress, and most importantly the election in 1860 that elected Abraham Lincoln as president. Congress, throughout the years since America won independence passed laws they believed would help their nation. But as slavery became more of a problem in the nation, acts passed by congress became more important and affected the outcome of the American nation and its citizens much greater. Congress passed many acts throughout the years leading to the Civil War, but some very important ones that both held off the civil war and pushed the civil war are the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Connecticut Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 after Missouri requested in 1819 to be part of the Union as a slave state. Missouri’s request...
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...Julia Theresa A. Regalado E34 December 12, 2014 American Civil War Fought 1861-1865, the American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Focused on slavery and states rights, these issues came to a head following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Over the next several months eleven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. During the first two years of the war, Southern troops won numerous victories but saw their fortunes turn after losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863. From then on, Northern forces worked to conqueror the South, forcing them to surrender in April 1865. The Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven...
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...CIVIL WAR JOURNALS “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, And is not either to save or destroy slavery” -Abraham Lincoln (1862) THE BACKGROUND CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR (C.W. JOURNAL #1). The Civil War wasn’t only about the fight of freedom for the black people, but also the economics, and the states against the federal rights, lead them to the call of battle. To me, they were important factors that people had their own desire of having the life they wanted. The Economic and social differences between the North and the South became more notable each day. The North needed the South, and the South needed the North. The southern economy was depending on cotton in which they needed the salves to work on. The North had the industries that purchased the raw cotton and turned them into finished goods. This created a major difference in economic attitude, and the North meant the change of society, evolved with different cultures and classes. Other fact that lead them to war was the disagreement the states had against the government. The government felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. This resulted in the idea of nullification. When nullification would not work, the states felt that they were no longer respected and moved towards secession. ELECTION OF 1860 (C.W. JOURNAL #2). The Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern due the slavery issues. In the Northern democratic...
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...Michael Wilson History 120 May 2 2016 Important Personages of the American Civil War. Abstract A defining time in American history was the Civil war of 1861-1865. It is said that while the Revolution founded the United states,the American Civil war shaped the United states into the kind of country it would come to be. The war would come to decide whether the United states would break up to become sovereign states or continue to stand as one nation. Also it would be key in determining if the United states would eventually abolish slavery or continue to dominate the world in slavery. These two issues would come to be widely recognized as the reasons for the war. This paper focuses mainly on some major personalities that played important roles during the war. It highlights their achievments and setbacks and Osuala 2 also takes a look at how they were instrumental to different causes and in general, their influences on the war at large. Stay tuned. Introduction There were so many people who took part in the American Civil war of 1861-1865 which was between the Confederacy and the Union. By the end of the war,over 730,000 soldiers and sailors died in the conflict (Shi and Tindall 506). Some of the most...
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...Vicksburg Would you like to know the battle that won the Civil War? The battle that won the civil war was the siege of Vicksburg. Did you know the siege of Vicksburg was based on a painting by a chapel? The siege of Vicksburg was from May 18 to July 4 1863. Did you know that Vicksburg didn’t celebrate the 4 of July 81 years? The Civil War Series In the contrast to the bungling on the confederate march to battle, Grant continued to sabotage Pemberton’s army with his great skills and knowledge. The Union army rested until the morning of May 17. The Union army was sneaking upon the confederates who are retreating at Champion Hill. The siege of Vicksburg was about to come upon and the union was ready to attack and the confederates were ready to defend. Vicksburg was one of the most successful campaigns of the war. Although General Ulysses S. Grant’s first attempt to take the city failed in the winter of 1862-1863, he rewarded his attempts in the spring. There were little battles before Vicksburg (Ballard, 1996)....
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...The Mexican War was the first battle of the Civil War. There are varied opinions as to which battle was actually the first battle of the Civil War. The most popular choice is the attack on Fort Sumter; however, this paper will argue that this is not the case. My main argument will be that because of the events leading up to and during the war, the reasons for the war, and the outcome of the war, the Mexican War laid the groundwork for the Civil War and made it inevitable. Although the Mexicans had recognized Texas independence in 1845, they rejected the Lone Star Republic’s claim to the unsettled territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. When the U.S. annexed Texas and assumed its claim to the disputed area, Mexico broke off diplomatic relations and prepared for armed conflict. Just before leaving office in early 1845 President John Tyler, a Virginian seeking to provide a new area into which slavery might expand, secured a joint resolution from Congress annexing Texas to the United States. Upon taking office, President Polk immediately turned to the acquisition of Mexico's northern territories. President Polk sent U.S. troops under the command of General Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande River in January of 1846. Mexican officials believed that the Texas-Mexico frontier stood one hundred miles to the north, at the Nueces River, and interpreted Polk's move as a deliberate provocation. Mexican troops quickly arrived at the Rio Grande as well, and minor...
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...Let’s end the civil war “Let’s end the civil war” is an article, written in 1962 by Harry Golden a northern journalist. He wrote this article to highlight the Civil war centennial in the U.S. and the idea that the centennial committees in the whole of the south, which wanted us to believe that the civil war is not over. There are still participations in the reengagement of the civil war and some of the actors still hope that the civil war will be restored. Harry golden thinks that the Americans see the centennial more as a celebration of the civil war, than a centennial. And that is why one of the main themes in the article is misunderstanding. It is a misunderstanding between the south and their view of the centennial. He thinks that the southern people believe that the centennial is more real than just a reengagement. Another theme in this story is how the view of the war is a hundred years after, which leads us to the reason why he wrote the article; the hundred years anniversary. The writer Harry Golden is a man from the northern part of America, who is born and educated in the same part; this clearly gives him a non-objective view on the civil war. The article is written from his view and therefore it’s not a reliable article, it only gives us his opinion on the Civil War centennial. There is no doubt that this article is written from the Northern part of the America’s point of view, which evidenced clearly in the following quotes. (p.121 ll. 11) “It was the war the North...
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...To this day the Civil War is the single most deadly war that American soldiers have been involved in. In fact, it is estimated that the military loss of the Civil War is nearly greater than all of America’s involvement in all conflicts since its foundation in 1776. The Civil War has been tied to numerous events dating from the 18th century all the way to nearly the end of the 20th century in America. American society in the 18th and 19th century was slowly deteriorating and would eventually lead to the North and the South becoming conflicting societies by the 1830s-1850s. The 18th century was a very much important time for the 13 colonies and the newly formed United States. They had broken away from England, with the use of the Declaration...
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...didn’t work out so well and they had a lot of arguments. .The Republicans gained a lot of supporters from the North to help increase their chances of presidency election. Because of their, John C. Fremont , from the Republican Party, won their first election for President in 1856. Later in November 1860, Abraham Lincoln, which was also from the Republican Party, won presidency over the Democratic Party to decrease the level of threats toward salves. In...
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