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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865.
The civil war that broke out in 1861 in the United States was between North and South America. They were in rivalry over; slavery, westward expansion, and states’ rights. When Abraham Lincoln became elected in 1860, some states in the South withdrew and formed the confederate states of America. Four more states joined in support. The war resulted in many ruins in the South, and over 2.4million soldiers died. Most Missourians were patriotic Unionist, believers in the libertarian revolution wrought by their sires (FELLMAN,1989)
After the revolutionary war, the United States became characterized by political disaster and economic misery. The thirteen states remained to be independent. All the countries did their things in their way. The only article that bounded them, though loosely, was the Articles of confederation, which were written by John Dickson in 1777. The United States was a federal republic. That means authority became divided between the government of states and the central government.
The central government set up bureaus, for example, the Bureau of pensions. The main function was to write checks to officers who were wounded and to the families of those who lost their lives. It was among the earliest social welfare forms. Besides, it became a system of retirement. The military bureaucrats gave jobs to many civilians. Some worked as gravediggers and sewists.
The French intervention in Mexico was defeated. The civil war led to the strengthening of the forces of the U.S. foreign power. The U.S. government now had legitimate power on matters about sectional pressures that had complicated the external relationship of the U.S. This factor made Canada’s confederation easy. Canada became conferred in 1867. The victory of the union ensured that there was the abolishment of racial slavery.
In the North of America, calls by some politicians from the U.S. for the capture of the British North American territory made politicians from Canada to overcome their sectional differences. Parliamentarians from Britain pushed for a stronger central government, especially with the failed attempt of the Irish-born civil war veterans launching raids in Canada. The British North American Act formed in 1867. With its formation, Quebec, Nova, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Scotia became united.
By the end of the civil war, the Us government distributed public lands, collected international taxes, supported the army, was able to clear the national debt of about 2.5 billion dollars, people in service were able to vote in the national elections. The Civil War would replace the Old South with a new, slavery with freedom, and wealth with poverty (Faust,1996)
The succession of the Southern states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina in 1861 led to the beginning of the war. The economy of North and South America was modernizing and diversifying as a result of the slave trade. The people of the South planted commercial crops such as cotton on large farms and relied on the slaves for labor. The people from the North, on the other end, build roads and factories. Cotton and slave prices rose, making people from the South earn more than those from the North.
The biggest result of the civil war was the abolishment of the slave trade. Federal legal protection was given to all citizens of the United States, regardless of race, color, or religion. Besides, all citizens were allowed to vote without looking at their race. Moreover, the confederate states of America were defeated, and they assumed their normal status in the united states. During the era of reconstruction. The time after the civil war, there was a lot of destruction and chaos.
References.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of invention: women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Carolina: the University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
FELLMAN, MICHAEL. INSIDE WAR The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
George, Ann Richards. “Civil War Era.” 5, (2011).