Essays on Secession

Slavery has widely been held as the primary reason for secession in the South. However, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2011 found that most Americans were divided on the matter. 48% of the Americans interviewed were of the opinion that “states’ rights” was the leading cause, 38% held slavery was the primary reason while the remainder was either not sure or thought both were contributory factors (Pierce par. 2). From the poll we can infer that secession was as a result of numerous factors. This inference is supported by the Declarations of Causes, ...

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Introduction

The American Revolution and the Civil War are two wars that have shaped American history and the American society. The American Revolution started with 13 colonies forming the Continent Congress declaring their Independence from the British rule in 1776 and ended with the Loyalists winning the Revolutionary War (Becker, 2013, p. 5). The Civil War was started when Southern states declared independence by seceding from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860 and they were later joined by Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North ...

. The early history of the United States from the founding of the Republic after the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War was greatly influenced by the changing face of the so-called party system. The main points which all of the parties in the different eras of Early American history before the Civil War concentrated primarily on what the role and size of the federal government should be and how it should work to deal with the major issues of the day. One of the most significant issues surrounding the early federal government related to its place and stance as ...

The Civil War was fought primarily according to one interpretation not to end slavery but instead only to save the union and bring the rebel Confederate states back into the fold. On the other hand, it is very hard to argue that from the Confederate perspective secession was about anything else except slavery. Well, known Confederate leaders are well known to have said that the purpose of secession was to protect slavery as the South's own "peculiar institution." While the original war aims of the Union was not originally to actually end slavery through the course of the war ...

The struggle for independence is not a new topic in Europe as the region’s history depicts a myriad of conflicts that occurred for the sake of independence from monarchies and the desire for self-governance. Throughout the past centuries, larger European empires broke down into smaller states while others merged to their partners or faded entirely. However, even after the Great Wars have ended, there were still factions hoping to separate themselves from their respective countries in the hopes of reestablishing their identities prior to their inclusion to larger countries. Catalonia, for instance, has been actively working on pushing ...

Fugitive Slave Act was a couple of federal legislations that allowed for the incarceration and return of runaway fugitives within the territory of the US. Initially, the Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 that empowered the local governments to capture and return the slaves who have escaped from their owners and impose penalties to people who aided the escape of the slaves. The extensive resistance to the 1973 legislation later spurred the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.The new law further complicated issues by imposing harsher punishments for the people who were interfering with the ...

Three Challenges in America, 1820-1840 This report considers three main challenges facing the nation and its citizens during the 1820 to 1840 time period and offers reasons why these challenges were significant. Foner (356) indicates Andrew Jackson’s presidency highlighted several major developments, including: the expansion of democracy and nationalism, the westward expansion movement and the slavery issue. During these two decades, American democracy and nationalism became more defined. The property requirement to vote eventually disappeared. “Democratic political institutions” became the hallmark of America’s identity that emphasized equality ...

Elections usually come down to a handful of states due to the way the Electoral College is set up. Those states are Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado, also known as “swing” states or “purple” states. This assumes that each party holds on to its core big states. The democrats have California, New York, and Illinois. The republicans have Texas. What would happen if either party lost one of their key states? Well, doing a little math, the republicans only have one. To say it would have a rippling effect would be an understatement. Before we can answer this question, ...

Discuss the Rise of the States’ Decolonization, Independence/Secession Processes that succeeded in the Last Years as well as the Current Independence/Secession Processes going on in the World Now.

Historically, decolonization has been occurring in stages, from 1776 to 1991, designing the current global order of the states through revolutions. It is a term used to refer to the process of ending the colonial rule in all facets, including different political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of this process. For around 200 years, the colonial rule, represented by the European monarchs has impacted the relationship between similar and opposing forces ( ...

Introduction

The secession or sequential exit of the Southern states from the Union was a major event in the American history that led to the Civil war. Southern secession was seen as a necessity in the plantation economy based Southern states and betrayal in the eyes of the Union. Therefore, the main research question to be explored is the factors that led to the Secession of the Southern states. The factors that played an important role in session of Southern states were abolitionist movement in the South, violation of the sectional balance and economics of slavery in the South (Meadwell & ...

Annotated Bibliography: African American History

Mayer, R. (2000). "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 45(4), 555-566. Palmer, C. A. (1995). From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas. Journal of World History, 6(2), 223-236. According to Ruth Mayer’s Africa as an Alien Future (2000), there remains a connection between the African Diaspora community and the motherland. In the author’s words, African culture remains evident even in contemporary works such as “literature, installation art, [and] pop music” in which the passages between Africa and ...

The coming into existence of slavery and the manifestations associated with the system, shaped American society in many ways including socially, economically and politically. There were views that the country was divided regarding how the society viewed the slavery system. The community was characterized by beneficiaries of the system, and those who thought that the system contributed to unfairness with regard to the distribution of the resulting benefits (Foner 1). Socially, slavery introduced divergent visions regarding how the Northerners and Southerners viewed and ideal society. Southerners celebrated slavery and openly criticized capitalism. The Southern community was depicted as upholding ...

The United Kingdom is an administrative unit consisting of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (Clifford and Morphet 57). Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are largely devolved; therefore, they enjoy some degree of independence. However, by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) does not consider any of the four regions as independent nations. Scotland borders England to the south and the Atlantic Ocean on all other fronts. The “nation” is associated with more than seven hundred islands. Scotland was established in the ninth century, specifically in the year 843 (Walker 7). In the nineteenth century, Scotland united ...

1. Introduction It is difficult to limit a discussion of Alfred Stieglitz to just one profession, let alone just one artistic movement within the field of photography. He is one of the main figures in the art world in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to his work with images, he was also an editor, collector, speaker, art dealer, gallery owner – and the husband and publicist of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Overall, though, he was the premier photographer of the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. However, the main thrust of ...

There are a host of factors that can be said to have caused the Civil War among them being the refusal of the union at fort Sumter to surrender after an order to do so had been issued by Brigadier General Beauregard, infringement of civil liberties, the formation of own government by the southerners and the Lincoln inauguration speech. The cessation acts by the southerners led to apprehension within the country and the states1.

The Lincolns speech was taken as not seriously considering the southerners and the later felt that Lincoln could not articulate comprehensively the issues regarding their civil ...