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Civil War Events: 1861 – 1863
Introduction: The American Civil War (1861–1865), among other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave…
Civil War Events: 1863 – 1865
Introduction: The American Civil War (1861–1865), among other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave…
Civil War: Momentum for Abolitionism
The arguments of Northern abolitionists gained ground as the war continued, in part because of the value of slaves to the South but also because Northerners were stunned at the…
Black Civil War Soldiers
For Northern blacks, however, the Emancipation Proclamation represented an enormous victory, and many urged their sons to enlist. In Massachusetts, abolitionist governor John A. Andrew immediately mustered a regiment of…
Civil War: Economic Causes
Since its settlement, the southern United States had received most of its income from farming, which depended heavily on slave labor. By 1860 cotton—King Cotton, as it became known—was the…
Civil War: Path to War
The country was further stirred by the serial publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Published as a book in 1852, the antislavery novel was widely read in the…
Civil War: The Last Years
Toward the end of the war, Republican abolitionists were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be viewed as a war act and thus unconstitutional once fighting ended. They were also…
Civil War: The Defeat
Toward the end of the war, the Confederacy debated whether to enlist slaves as soldiers and, if so, whether slave-soldiers should be granted their freedom. In early 1865 the Confederate…
Modern Day Poetry
Civil War, American, devastating military conflict between the United States of America and 11 former states that seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. The war, which lasted from…
The Revolutionary-Era Challenge
Throughout most of the colonial period, opposition to slavery among white Americans was virtually nonexistent. Settlers in the 17th and early 18th centuries came from a sharply stratified society in…
