Colton Crowley's Civil War

 

 

 

 

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1.) What other major changes were driven by the U.S. Civil War apart from the abolition of slavery?

 

 

 

 

2.) How were Americans with a neutral stance on slavery convinced to fight for either side? Was there- propaganda involved in beginning or influencing the U.S. Civil War?

 

 

 

 

3.) What role did black people, slaves and freed men have in the Civil War? were they allowed to fight? What was their impact during the war itself?

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction: Throughout the history of America there has been a thirst for independence but unfortunately it has always been backed by a complex of inferiority and superiority. When colonist were fighting for independence from great Britain many colonists united to pursue what they beleived was an honorable cause, all the while they indifferently denied the native americans of the land on which they had harvested age old cultures. The most well known example of this is when the words " all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; ..." were written on the United States Declaration of Independence while by using mental and physical violence slave owning Americans held hostage african people under the atrocious Institution of Slavery, which they beleived perfectly normal and reasonable. The idea of independence is a great one, living in the U.S. now freedoms are widely and greatly appreciated but throughout history up to the present people have been selfish in their idea of independence, their is an attitude that "as long as i am independent others may not be". In America, state rights have remained an issue along with the morale conflict of selective independence people want to live their own way but when their own way includes the oppression of a race a change in their thinking must be made and if this can't be done their independence must be compromised to end the oppression they beleive in inflicting. Lincoln was not the first great abolitionist, he was not even a beleiver that blacks were completely equal in humaness to whites but he saw what was wrong in slavery and used his political stance to end its institution.

 

 

Conclusion: The Civil War is looked on today as the war which finally ended slavery, the great War which freed all the slaves and made them equals the truth although somewhat similar to this conception in the long run is not so cut and dry. The war left families in both the north and the south lacking sons and fathers, it left towns ruined the people of the northern and southern united states perpetually tense with eachother despite their common suffering. The slaves although freed which is a monumental advancement in eliminating the oppression of the african race  are left unequal in american society and unable to survive comfortably in the society they still felt rejected in. In time the Civil War was and is today looked at as a good thing which in my opinion it must have been based on the difference it made in abolishing slavery, however it is important to remember the costs of war and to remember the suffering and loss of those involved when reflecting on the positive result a war has caused.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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