Hey guys! William Zhao hereee! Man! I got so many posts to blog! Alright, let's get back to work. Today I will be posting about The Civil War.
What is Civil War
So what is Civil war and when and how it happened? Alright, brace for impact! The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America , also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all twenty free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states. There are 11 southern slave states involved in this war and here are some of the examples : Virginia, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Well, it was Abraham Lincoln, the 16th United States President, who proclaimed war against the South.
So why was the civil war fought?
The roots of this tragic conflict go back to the birth of the country. The founding fathers, for all their wisdom, could not solve all the differences between the original thirteen states.
The products of their labors, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, failed to totally define the relationship between the Federal Government and the States. The slavery question received no more than a partial and temporary solution.
These issues of states' rights festered and the rhetoric inside the Congress grew more heated. Finally, words were no longer enough for some and the nation began to split apart.
The secession of 11 Southern States and the unbending position of President Lincoln toward preserving the Union led to the first shot fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. The Rubicon had been crossed.The civil war was fought between 1861-1865. Source : http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/index.cfm
It abolished slavery as a legal institution in the United States. The one irreconcilable difference between the North and the South during a time when our country was expanding was the introduction of slavery into new territories. In fact, the main prelude to the bloodbath to come was in "Bleeding Kansas" during the late 1850's as people actively killed one another over the question of slavery. It took two additional amendments to the U.S. Constitution and an additional hundred years of civil rights struggle to completely erase the stain of slavery, but the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation began the process.
So how was this book related to the civil war? Atticus, a white wrote for Tom Johnson, a black despite their races. Atticus besides of not discriminate Tom and even helped him.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
2 comments:
You wrote a very nice short account of the Civil war -- sorta.
It's common for us in the US to be politically correct regarding the Civil War. There is an unnwritten rule - don't piss of the South.
WHen you asked "what was the cause of the civil war" you could have given a clear answer. Not this stuff about "this tragic conflict goes back -- blah blah blah,
Be clear, be honest.
Southerner were promising war if they could not SPREAD slavery by force. That is right.
Southerners were pissed as mad men, - bat shit crazy -- that Kansas was not accepting slavery.
Slavery had to spread to survive - fact. It's like a cancer. Slave population was doubling and doubling again. There were more slaves than white people in many areas in the SOuth, and the South was scared shitless about it.
This is the history you don't read in books.
The South had always spread slavery by threats and violence -- Missouri, Texas, ar examples. They would promise war if slavery was not spread.
But now, in Kansas, the people in Kansas said NO -- and voted 98% to 2% to keep slavery out.
The SOuth issued Five Ultimatums -- promises of war. All five Ultimatums -- all five -- were about the SPREAD of slavery.
Nothing else. All five Ultimatums were about the SPREAD of slavery by FORCE.
The US Congress must FORCE Kansas to accept slavery.
YOu never heard this?
No kidding. This is stuff they don't teach.
Google Southern Ultimatums, and learn something.
After the South lost, they made up a bunch of excuses, but at the time they were bragging it was about slavery.
Do you know who said that? Do you know who said the South bragged it was about slavery at the time, but later made up excuses?
Confederate leader John Mosbey said that.
It was about the SPREAD of slavery -- demands to SPREAD slavey against the will of the people, and AGAINST states rights.
That is the basic reality of the time. And the SOuthern leaders themselves said so at the time.
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I feel that the post is too wordy. Plus it's all in different fonts, and I suspect it's definitely gotta be copy and paste. Where's your originality, mate?
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