The Civil War
The
Civil war had several battles and two main characters involved. The South and
the North, the South was known as the confederate and were positive with having
slavery, their general was Lee, one of history’s most famous generals. The
North was the Union Force. They believed in abolition, their general was
Ulysses S. Grant. There were several battles; some were the Battle of Manassas,
Gettysburg, and War of the Waterways. Yet at the beginning the North started to
loses until there flipped the war to start winning with the battle of
Gettysburg. After the war came the era of reconstruction were in the United
States history in which the nation tried to adjust to the new conditions
created by the Civil War.
Union Army (right) Vs. Confederate Army(left)
The Civil War had
several reasons to go on for 5 years. The Battle of Manassas it made people go
for a pick-nick around the battle field, and made the Northerners lose, thus
thinking that the South has a bigger army. Another symbolic battle during the
Civil War was the Waterways in which the North won over the Mississippi River
which extended from the North until the South. This helped the North to control
the Mississippi River which was part of the Underground Railroad. Then when the
Civil war had its great turning point was in the Battle of Gettysburg, in which
Lincoln gave a speech to commemorate the soldiers who fought. The Civil Wars culminate
on April 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse, where General Lee (South)
surrenders to General Grant (North).
Gettysburg Battle
The period known as
reconstruction begins to try to adjust to the new conditions created by the
Civil War. This time period is one of the United States more important times.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was created, thereby
abolishing slavery, which promoted the African Americans that were enslaved in
the South to stop obeying their owners when they heard that the Union troops
were reported to be nearby. The “freed people” took their freedom as something
important in which they were free to go wherever they wanted, almost always
living around their cotton plantations. During the reconstruction time there
was the Freedmen’s Bureau, in March 1865 Congress gave clothing, medical
supplies, and millions of meals to refuges of war, both African Americans and
white. President Lincoln dies and vice president Andrew Johnson becomes the new
president. At the end the reconstruction did not really help, since it was not
so equal and it had squandered the opportunity to achieve true equality and
social justice, the reconstruction ended in 1877.
Appomattox Court House
The Civil War ends in 1865 when the Southerner
general surrenders to Northern general. Slavery was abolished, yet groups such
as the KKK kept racism and not every state in the South gave the African
Americans the same rights as the white people, yet most let the African
Americans move freely, although most ended living near their old plantations.
The Civil War made the Confederate & Union army fight brother vs. brother. The
remarkable ending of the war at the Appomattox Court shows that General Lee
admits his defeat against the North. Then the years of reconstruction, and
reconciliation of the Southern states to unite again to the Union starts, also
most of the Confederate Army is pardoned for people to unite again to Union,
and be a nation again, the United States. This has a similarity to the
United Nations, when they intervene in conflicts around the world to achieve
world peace and the solidarity of humanity for the sake of all.
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